Tony Scannell

Acting

Tony Scannell

Born August 14, 1945 · Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland

Died May 26, 2020 · aged 74

Thomas Anthony Scannell was an Irish actor, known for his role as DS Ted Roach in ITV's The Bill.

Known For

Flash GordonFlash Gordon · 1980
Flash Gordon
6.31980
MovieScience FictionAdventure
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Blue MoneyBlue Money · 1985
Blue Money
5.11985
MovieComedyCrime
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Evil Never DiesEvil Never Dies · 2014
Evil Never Dies
4.32014
MovieHorrorThriller
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
The Things You Do for Love: Against the OddsThe Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds · 1998
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
9.01998
Movie
Sue Johnston stars in this intimate drama exploring the life of Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix. Follow her affair with fellow actor Tony Booth in the 50s that ended in heartbreak, and what eventually happened to the pair years later.
Family AffairsFamily Affairs · 1997
Family Affairs
3.71997
SeriesDramaSoap
Focuses on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.
Waking the DeadWaking the Dead · 2001
Waking the Dead
7.22001
SeriesCrimeMystery
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
The BillThe Bill · 1984
The Bill
6.81984
SeriesCrimeDrama
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The ProfessionalsThe Professionals · 1977
The Professionals
7.61977
SeriesAction & AdventureCrime
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Filmography

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StrangersStrangers · 1978
Strangers
7.31978
SeriesCrimeDrama
Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

John McCleod