Derek Newark

Derek Newark
Newark in the 1970s
Born	Derek John Newark (1933-06-08)8 June 1933 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Died	11 August 1998(1998-08-11) (aged 65) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1961–1996

Derek John Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor in television, film and theatre.

Career

Newark began his working life as a soldier in the Coldstream Guards before joining the Royal Artillery. However, he wanted to become an actor, and left the Army to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Newark appeared in a large number of film and television roles, including The Baron (1967), The Avengers (three episodes in the 1960s), Z-Cars (six episodes between 1969 and 1972), Barlow in the regular role of Det. Insp. Tucker (1974–1975) and various other minor roles. He appeared in episodes two to four of the first Doctor Who story An Unearthly Child in 1963. Later he appeared opposite Jon Pertwee in the 1970 story Inferno. Newark also played the role of Spooner, an ill-tempered former Red Devil turned professional wrestler in the series Rising Damp.

In the 1970s, Newark became more involved in the theatre, spending nearly a decade at the Royal National Theatre. While there he was part of the company that opened its current South Bank home and was a cornerstone of the residential company that worked in the smaller Cottesloe Theatre under Bill Bryden's direction. His most important roles there were Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the world premiere of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross where he played Shelley Levene (a role later played on screen by Jack Lemmon). At the National he also appeared as Malcolm in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, which transferred to the West End and then Broadway. He also created the role of Roote in Harold Pinter's play The Hothouse which premiered in 1980 in a production directed by the playwright.

Amongst later work on television, he starred in the second series of Juliet Bravo as Councillor Jack Winterbottom. In 1982, Newark played Martin Bormann in the TV series Inside the Third Reich. He appeared as W. C. Fields with Caroline Quentin in the 1983 Channel 4 play Hollywood Hits Chiswick

In the cinema Newark appeared as Jessard, Sgt. Johnson's (Sean Connery) sidekick in the police drama The Offence (Sidney Lumet 1972).

Death

Newark died of a heart attack, brought on by liver failure after years of alcoholism, on 11 August 1998 in West London.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	The System	Alfred	Uncredited
	The Black Torment	Coachman Tom
1965	City Under the Sea	Dan
	The Little Ones	Det. Wilson
1966	The Blue Max	Ziegel
1968	Where Eagles Dare	German Major	Uncredited
1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Shooting Gallery Proprietor
1970	Fragment of Fear	Sergeant Matthews
	The Breaking of Bumbo	C.S.M Peters
1971	Dad's Army	Regimental Sergeant Major
	Venom	Johann
1973	The Offence	Jessard
1974	The Black Windmill	Monitoring Policeman
1976	Escape from the Dark	Unknown
1987	Bellman and True	Guv'nor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episodes
1961	Deadline Midnight	Mechanic	Episode: "Striptease"
1962	Probation Officer	Customers Officer	Episode: #4.12
	Out of This World	Inspector Wright	Episode: ''Vanishing Act''
	The Caucasian Chalk Circle	Trooper	3 episodes
	Harpers West One	Jerry Barker	Episode: #2.15
1963	The Birth of a Private Man	Jack	Television film
	The Plane Makers	Alf Skinner	Episode: "The Blunt Approach"
	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Fred/George	2 episodes
1964	No Hiding Place	Sgt. Wallis	Episode: ''Line of Fire''
	The Villains	D.S. Brough	Episode: 'Victim''
	Redcap	Mess Sergeant	Episode: ''It's What Comes After''
	The Wednesday Play	Private Postnikov	Episode: ''A Crack in the Ice''
	The Chimney Boy	Sailor	Television film
1961–1965	ITV Play of the Week	Dragoon Sjt/Private Varley Ward	3 episodes
1965	Front Page Story	Joe Harwood	13 episodes
	Knock on Any Door	Flynn	Episode: ''There's Always an Angle''
	Sergeant Musgrave's Dance	Private Hurst	3 episodes
1966	Softly, Softly	Alec Bridges	Episode: ''It Doesn't Grow on Trees''
	The Likely Lads	Duggie	Episode: ''Love and Marriage''
	Blackmail	Arthur Clegg	Episode : ''The Haunting of Aubrey Hopkiss''
	Drama 61-67	Sgt. Dangerfield	Episode: ''Conduct to the Prejudice''
1966–1967	The Baron	Cavin Baggio/Lucas	3 episodes
1967	Emergency Ward 10	Captain Leo Baring	Episode: "Mock Flight"
	Theatre 625	Col. Karl Ernst	Episode: ''Firebrand''
	Callan	Loder	Episode: ''You Should Have Got Here Sooner''
	The Gamblers	Redgrave	Episode ''Read 'em and Weep''
	The White Rabbit	Prison guard/The	2 episodes
	ITV Playhouse	Sgt. Huber	Episode: ''The Stories of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn in the Flesh''
	Vanity Fair	McMurdo	Episode: ''Vanitas Vanitatum''
1967–1968	Man in a Suitcase	Maurice/Rudy	2 episodes
1968	Half Hour Story	Bill Bolton	Episode: ''Out of the Playground''
	The Caesars	Agrippa Postumus	Episode: ''Augustus''
1964–1968	The Avengers	Johnson/Crawford Vickers	3 episodes
1968	Mr. Rose	Thomas Lundy	Episode: ''Free and Easy''
	The Champions	Kruger	Episode: ''The Final Countdown''
1967–1968	The Saint	Carl/German	2 episodes
1969	Judge Dee	Corporal	Episode: ''The Curse of the Lacquer Screen''
1970	Department S	Clark	Episode: ''The Last Train to Redbridge''
	Manhunt	Henri	Episode: ''Break-Up''
1963–1970	Doctor Who	Za/Greg Sutton	Serials: "An Unearthly Child"/"Inferno"
1970	Big Brother	Miller	Episode: ''There's Always a First Time''
1971	The Ten Commandments	Bernard Williams	Episode: ''Be Lucky''
1971	Paul Temple	Det. Insp. Hilton	Episode: ''The Quick and the Dead''
1971	ITV Saturday Night Theatre	Pete	Episode: ''The Wedding Gift''
1966–1971	Coronation Street	Detective Inspector Sharp	6 episodes
1971	Dixon of Dock Green	Eddie Brown	Episode: ''The Fighter''
1971	Jason King	Hartman	Episode: ''A Red Red Rose Forever''
1971	The Persuaders!	Lloyd	Episode: ''That's Me Over There''
1968–1972	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Bert Gregson Dolan Wilf Hardiman (the manager)	3 episodes
1971–1972	Budgie	Det. Insp. Bryant	3 episodes
1968–1972	Z-Cars	Dunnock Matt Colley/Harry Hayes	6 episodes
1972	The Edwardians	Meadows	Episode: ''Baden-Powell''
1973	The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club	Bunter	3 episodes
	Justice	Tom Bradley	Episode: ''After All, What Is a Lie?''
	New Scotland Yard	Harry Logan	Episode: ''Where's Harry?''
	General Hospital	Ronnie Singer	Episode: #1.87
	Diamonds on Wheels	Mercer	Television film
	Spy Trap	Colonel Kretmar	Episode: ''Anything Legal Considered''
	The Adventures of Black Beauty	Fletcher Bellows	2 episodes
1974	The Protectors	Reece	Episode: ''The Tiger and the Goat''
1974	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colour	Mercer	3 episodes
	QB VII	Mr. Graham	Episode: ''Part Three''
	My Name Is Harry Worth	Mick	Episode: ''Don't Bank on It''
	A Little Bit of Wisdom	Security guard	Episode: ''And I Mean That Most Sincerely''
1975	The Two Ronnies	Det. Insp. Tucker	Episode: #4.1
1974–1975	Rising Damp	Spooner	2 episodes
	Barlow	Det. Insp. Eddie Tucker	15 episodes
1975	Churchill's People	Sir John Dudley	Episode: '' The Whip of Heaven''
1978	Rumpole of the Bailey	Basil Delgado	Episode: ''Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade''
	Born and Bred	Dawson	Episode: ''Ever So Goosey''
	Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em	Mr. Hunt	Episode: ''Motorbike''
1979	Return of the Saint	Wright	Episode: ''The Obono Affair''
	Citizen Smith	Car salesman	Episode: ''The Big Job''
1980	Bedroom Farce	Malcom	Television film
1981	The Antagonists	Engineering Officer	2 episodes
	Private Schulz	Publican	Episode: #1.3
	Only Fools and Horses	Eric the Policeman	Episode: ''The Russians are Coming''
	Juliet Bravo	Councillor Jack Winterbottom	Episode: ''Gorgeous''
	Seconds Out	Joe Brindle	Episode: ''Round 7''
1982	The Hothouse	Roote	Television film
	Inside the Third Reich	Martin Bormann
1973–1982	Crown Court	Robert Scard Leonard Hooper Sgt. Waxloe	6 episodes
1983	Reilly, Ace of Spies	General Stoessel	Episode: ''Prelude to War''
	Dramarama	Mr. Bateson	Episode: ''Jack and the Computer''
1984	Travelling Man	Det. Chief Supt. Sullivan	2 episodes
	Just Good Friends	Eddie Brown
1985	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Theodor Eicke	Television film
1985–1986	The Mysteries	First Soldier Abraham	3 episodes
1986	Chance in a Million	Arthur	Episode: ''The Lost Weekend''
	The Holy City	Stiles	Television film
	Four to One	Len
	Dempsey and Makepeace	Corman	Episode: ''The Guardian Angel''
	The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest	Colonel Pietruska	Television film
	Lytton's Diary	Charlie Rigby	Episode ''Rule of Engagement''
1987	Smith & Jones	Unknown	Episode: #4.2
	Harry's Kingdom	Bob Roberts	Television film
1988	Singles	Mr. Broadbent	Episode: ''Money, Money, Money''
	Tickets for the Titanic	Brock	Episode: ''Pastoral Care'
	ScreenPlay	Mr. Vernon	Episode: ''Starlings''
	A Taste for Death	Gordon Halliwell	4 episodes
	War & Remembrance	Untersturmfuhrer Klinge	2 episodes
1989	Shadow of the Noose	Van der Hogh	Episode ''Beside the Seaside''
	The Nineteenth Hole	Mr. Bennett	7 episodes
	Saracen	Metcalf	Episode: ''Crossfire''
	The Paradise Club	Bobby Mulgrew	Episode: "Short Story"
1991	Madness	Reenactments	2 episodes
	An Actor's Life For Me	Bill Mortimer	Episode: ''Night of the Living Dead''
1992	Screen One	Jimmy	Episode: ''Seconds Out''
1994	99-1	Hicks	Episode: ''Where the Money Is''
1989–1996	The Bill	Eric Taylor Jim Whatley Mike Walker	3 episodes

Theatre work

• Bedroom Farce (1977)
• The Hothouse (1980)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
• The Mayor of Zalamea (1982)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
• Golden Boy (1984)

External links

• Derek Newark at IMDb
• Derek Newark at Theatricalia