Tim McInnerny


Timothy L. McInnerny is a British actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Kevin Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder.

Early life

McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan and William Ronald McInnerny. He has one sister. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme and in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.

Career

Television

McInnerny's first role was in Blackadder during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series and the second series ; he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and returned to the main cast to play Captain Kevin Darling in the fourth series.
He had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. More recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks. In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.
In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show I Love the '70s: "I think shows like Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour need to be remembered for what they were; truly fantastic examples of sitcom writing that hasn't been seen since. The content is unfortunate in the cold light of modern society, but that's no reason to stop praising the sheer brilliance of the writers that ITV had in its ranks during that decade."
Television
YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1983The Black AdderLord Percy Percy
1985The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesJohn Clay
Vincent Spalding		Episode: "The Red-Headed League"
1985Edge of DarknessTerry Shields
1986Anastasia: The Mystery of AnnaYakovlev
1986Blackadder IILord Percy Percy
1987Blackadder the ThirdTopper
The Scarlet Pimpernel		Episode: "Nob and Nobility"
1988A Very British CoupFiennesThree-part TV serial
1989Blackadder Goes ForthCaptain Kevin Darling
1992The BillKevin FinchEpisode: "Open to Offers"
1993The Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesFranz KafkaEpisode: "Prague, August 1917"
1997Tracey Takes On...Timothy Bugge
1999Blackadder: Back and ForthArchdeacon Darling
the Duke of Darling
le Duc de Darling
1999The ViceMax Wilsonepisode "Sons"
2000The Miracle MakerBarabbasvoice only
2002Don't Eat the NeighboursTerrapin
2002Trial & RetributionEric FowlerSeries 6
2004SpooksOliver Mace
2004Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder at the VicarageReverend Leonard Clement
2004Gunpowder, Treason & PlotCecil
2006The Line of BeautyGerald FeddenTV miniseries
2008Doctor WhoKlineman HalpenEpisode: "Planet of the Ood"
Series 4
2009HustleJudge Anthony Kent
2009Inspector George GentlyGeoffrey PershoreEpisode: "Gently Through the Mill"
2010Midsomer MurdersHugh DalgleishEpisode: "The Sword of Guillaume" #13.2
2011Law & Order: UKSimon BennettEpisode: "Haunted"
2011Twenty TwelveTony WardEpisode #1.6
2011The Body FarmRichard WarnerEpisode "You've Got Visitors"
2011–2012New TricksStephen FisherEpisodes: "The Gentleman That Vanished", "A Death in the Family" and "Part of a Whole"
2012The Bleak Old Shop of StuffHarmswell GrimstoneEpisodes: "#1.1", "#1.2", "#1.3"
2014Castles in the SkyChurchill
2014OutlanderFather Bain
2014UtopiaAirey NeaveEpisode: "Episode 1"
2014The Boy in the DressMr Hawthorn
2015Strike Back: LegacyRobin Foster
2016SherlockEustace CarmichaelEpisode: "The Abominable Bride"
2016Houdini and DoyleHorace MerringEpisodes: "#1", "#2", "#8"
2016–2017Game of ThronesRobett GloverEpisodes: "The Broken Man", "The Winds of Winter", "Dragonstone", "Stormborn", "Eastwatch"
2016National TreasureKarl
2017In the DarkFrank LinnellEpisodes: 1.3, 1.4
2017StrikeDaniel ChardThe Silkworm
2017HarlotsLord ReptonEpisodes: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
2018StrangersArthur Bach
2019–2020The Trial of Christine KeelerMartin RedmayneRecurring role
2020The Windermere ChildrenLeonard Montefiore
2020Gangs of LondonMr JacobEpisode: 1.9
2021The SerpentPaul Siemons
2022Ten PercentSimon Gould
2023Mrs. DavisApron ManEpisodes: "Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung", "A Baby with Wings, a Sad Boy with Wings and a Great Helmet"
2024One DayStephen Mayhew
2025BookishDEpisodes: "Slightly Foxed: Part 1", "Slightly Foxed: Part 2","Such Devoted Sisters: Part 1"

Theatre

In 1985 he was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.
He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.
In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.
Selected theatre performances

Music

In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.