Actor
David Neilson
Born March 13, 1949 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
9 films
David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying cafe owner Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. In a break from the show in 2016, Neilson starred in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Home in Manchester. Prior to taking up the role of Roy Cropper, Neilson appeared in several TV shows including Boys from The Blackstuff, Resnick, Secret Army, Once Upon a Time in the North, Blue Heaven, Bergerac, Casualty and EastEnders, and in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies.
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First watchSecrets & Lies19967.6as Man in SuitAfter her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
9 films as actor- 2020MajorityLen Taylor
- 2009Coronation Street: Romanian HolidayRoy Cropper
- 1996Secrets & LiesMan in Suit
- 1993Resnick: Rough TreatmentDS Graham Millington
- 1992Resnick: Lonely HeartsDS Graham Millington
- 1991Life Is SweetSteve
- 1986Knights & EmeraldsAshby
- 1981Sons and LoversEdgar
- 1978Soldiers Talking, CleanlyBuckie