Acting

Jonathan Coy

Born April 24, 1953 · Hammersmith, London, England, UK (age 73)

Jonathan Coy (born 24 April 1953) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Downton Abbey (2010–2014), as well as appearing in the feature film follow-up Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).

Known For

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era · 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

MovieDramaRomance

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

I Came By

I Came By · 2022

MovieCrimeThriller

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations · 2012

Great Expectations

MovieDramaRomance

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Conspiracy

Conspiracy · 2001

MovieHistoryDrama

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Longitude

Longitude · 2000

MovieTV MovieDrama

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 2001

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

MovieDramaTV Movie

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

To Kill a King

To Kill a King · 2003

MovieDramaAction

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

Alien Autopsy

Alien Autopsy · 2006

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Filmography

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Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era · 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

MovieDramaRomance

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

Murray

I Came By

I Came By · 2022

MovieCrimeThriller

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

Headmaster

Great Expectations

Great Expectations · 2012

Great Expectations

MovieDramaRomance

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

JUDGE MANSELL

Conspiracy

Conspiracy · 2001

MovieHistoryDrama

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Erich Neumann

Longitude

Longitude · 2000

MovieTV MovieDrama

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Adm. Sir Cloudsley Shovell

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 2001

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

MovieDramaTV Movie

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

Charles Cheeryble

To Kill a King

To Kill a King · 2003

MovieDramaAction

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

Digby

Alien Autopsy

Alien Autopsy · 2006

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Museum Director

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop · 2007

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Rev. Pratchett

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters · 1999

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

MovieWarAdventure

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Lieutenant Bracegirdle

Plain Jane

Plain Jane · 2002

MovieTV MovieDrama

Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

Dr. Cosmo

Silas Marner

Silas Marner · 1985

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Dunstan Cass

Cuts

A British TV company wants to make a big blockbuster TV series and to add to their chances of success they call in the services of Henry Babbacombe, a nervous man who has only written a small book on nature before. As the production on the series continues, Henry has to make many changes on his scripts as things change on the series and he falls in love with Cynthia Hyde-Lennon. However both she and the TV company wants Henry to write and do stuff that is completely against his morals but he finds itself going along until the TV company and Cynthia turns and savagely stabs him in the back...

Roger Trothammer

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant · 1998

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

MovieWarAdventure

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

Lieutenant Bracegirdle

Shoreditch

Shoreditch · 2003

MovieRomanceDrama

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a place where gangsters and aristocrats, home office gents, and loose women can kick back and relax. Thomas' job is to keep everything running smoothly. But when he starts having an affair with singer Butterfly (Joely Richardson), this carefully balanced world disintegrates into blackmail, drugs, and suicide.

Karl

Adam Bede

Adam Bede · 1992

MovieDramaRomance

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

Pym

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey · 1987

Northanger Abbey

MovieDramaRomance

A young girl, whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions, goes to stay with the wealthy Tilney family. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.

John Thorpe

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing · 2011

Much Ado About Nothing

MovieComedyDrama

Two young lovers, Claudio and Hero, are to be married imminently but the devious scheming of a resentful Prince looks set to thwart the nuptials. Meanwhile, marriage seems inconceivable for reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick whose endless witty sparring threatens to keep them apart forever. Directed by Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s great plays and reminds us all of the failings and triumphs of the human condition in our never ending search for perfect love.

Leonato

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil · 1999

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

MovieWarAdventure

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Lieutenant Bracegirdle

Hornblower: Duty

Hornblower: Duty · 2003

Hornblower: Duty

MovieWarAdventure

Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.

Captain Bracegirdie

Countdown to War

Countdown to War · 1989

Countdown to War

MovieDramaHistory

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.

Butler

Monster Maker

Monster Maker · 1989

MovieComedyFamily

A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under his wing. Literally.

Teacher

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death · 2002

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

MovieCrimeDrama

James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

DCS Bernard Postles

102 Boulevard Haussmann

102 Boulevard Haussmann · 1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann

MovieDramaTV Movie

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

Odilon

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders · 1997

Midsomer Murders

SeriesCrimeDrama

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Kenneth Gooders

Play for Today

Play for Today · 1970

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Lotterby

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot · 1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

SeriesCrimeDrama

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Bunny Saunders

Father Brown

Father Brown · 2013

SeriesDramaCrime

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Lord Rufus Silk

Foyle's War

Foyle's War · 2002

SeriesMysteryDrama

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Hans Maier

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey · 2010

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

George Murray

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes · 1984

Sherlock Holmes

SeriesCrimeDrama

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Fitzroy Simpson

Andor

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

Uncle Sordo

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost · 1992

A Touch of Frost

SeriesDramaCrime

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Ben Pecksmith

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Odilon

Endeavour

Endeavour · 2013

SeriesCrimeDrama

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

Archie Batten

Heartbeat

Heartbeat · 1992

SeriesCrimeDrama

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Harry Horton

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected · 1979

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

William Haddock

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse · 1987

Inspector Morse

SeriesCrimeDrama

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

Harry Balcombe

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey · 1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

SeriesDramaComedy

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Henry

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes · 1986

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

SeriesMysteryCrime

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

Fitzroy Simpson

Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier · 1991

Soldier Soldier

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

Tom Bridger

Lovejoy

Lovejoy · 1986

SeriesComedyDrama

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

Edward Carr

Secret Army

Secret Army · 1977

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Wright

The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May · 1991

The Darling Buds of May

SeriesComedyDrama

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

Barry Mulcrone

The Hack

The Hack · 2025

SeriesDramaCrime

Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two real life stories, the uncovering of phone hacking at the News of the World, and running parallel, the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.

Nick Davies' Dad

Hornblower

Hornblower · 1998

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Captain Bracegirdle

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates · 1996

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

SeriesDramaCrime

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

Doug Arkwright

The Long Shadow

The Long Shadow · 2023

The Long Shadow

SeriesCrimeDrama

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

Howard Cohen