Derek Newark

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

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

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
1964	The Black Torment	Coachman Tom
1965	City Under the Sea	Dan
1965	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
1970	The Breaking of Bumbo	C.S.M Peters
1971	Dad's Army	Regimental Sergeant Major
1971	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
1962	Out of This World	Inspector Wright	Episode: ''Vanishing Act''
1962	The Caucasian Chalk Circle	Trooper	3 episodes
1962	Harpers West One	Jerry Barker	Episode: #2.15
1963	The Birth of a Private Man	Jack	Television film
1963	The Plane Makers	Alf Skinner	Episode: "The Blunt Approach"
1963	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Fred George	2 episodes
1964	No Hiding Place	Sgt. Wallis	Episode: ''Line of Fire''
1964	The Villains	D.S. Brough	Episode: 'Victim''
1964	Redcap	Mess Sergeant	Episode: ''It's What Comes After''
1964	The Wednesday Play	Private Postnikov	Episode: ''A Crack in the Ice''
1964	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
1965	Knock on Any Door	Flynn	Episode: ''There's Always an Angle''
1965	Sergeant Musgrave's Dance	Private Hurst	3 episodes
1966	Softly, Softly	Alec Bridges	Episode: ''It Doesn't Grow on Trees''
1966	The Likely Lads	Duggie	Episode: ''Love and Marriage''
1966	Blackmail	Arthur Clegg	Episode : ''The Haunting of Aubrey Hopkiss''
1966	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"
1967	Theatre 625	Col. Karl Ernst	Episode: ''Firebrand''
1967	Callan	Loder	Episode: ''You Should Have Got Here Sooner''
1967	The Gamblers	Redgrave	Episode ''Read 'em and Weep''
1967	The White Rabbit	Prison guard The	2 episodes
1967	ITV Playhouse	Sgt. Huber	Episode: ''The Stories of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn in the Flesh''
1967	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''
1968	The Caesars	Agrippa Postumus	Episode: ''Augustus''
1964–1968	The Avengers	Johnson Crawford Vickers	3 episodes
1968	Mr. Rose	Thomas Lundy	Episode: ''Free and Easy''
1968	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''
1970	Manhunt	Henri	Episode: ''Break-Up''
1963–1970	Doctor Who	Za Greg Sutton	10 episodes
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
1973	Justice	Tom Bradley	Episode: ''After All, What Is a Lie?''
1973	New Scotland Yard	Harry Logan	Episode: ''Where's Harry?''
1973	General Hospital	Ronnie Singer	Episode: #1.87
1973	Diamonds on Wheels	Mercer	Television film
1973	Spy Trap	Colonel Kretmar	Episode: ''Anything Legal Considered''
1973	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
1974	QB VII	Mr. Graham	Episode: ''Part Three''
1974	My Name Is Harry Worth	Mick	Episode: ''Don't Bank on It''
1974	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
1974–1975	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''
1978	Born and Bred	Dawson	Episode: ''Ever So Goosey''
1978	Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em	Mr. Hunt	Episode: ''Motorbike''
1979	Return of the Saint	Wright	Episode: ''The Obono Affair''
1979	Citizen Smith	Car salesman	Episode: ''The Big Job''
1980	Bedroom Farce	Malcom	Television film
1981	The Antagonists	Engineering Officer	2 episodes
1981	Private Schulz	Publican	Episode: #1.3
1981	Only Fools and Horses	Eric the Policeman	Episode: ''The Russians are Coming''
1981	Juliet Bravo	Councillor Jack Winterbottom	Episode: ''Gorgeous''
1981	Seconds Out	Joe Brindle	Episode: ''Round 7''
1982	The Hothouse	Roote	Television film
1982	Inside the Third Reich	Martin Bormann	Television film
1973–1982	Crown Court	Robert Scard Leonard Hooper Sgt. Waxloe	6 episodes
1983	Reilly, Ace of Spies	General Stoessel	Episode: ''Prelude to War''
1983	Dramarama	Mr. Bateson	Episode: ''Jack and the Computer''
1984	Travelling Man	Det. Chief Supt. Sullivan	2 episodes
1984	Just Good Friends	Eddie Brown	2 episodes
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''
1986	The Holy City	Stiles	Television film
1986	Four to One	Len	Television film
1986	Dempsey and Makepeace	Corman	Episode: ''The Guardian Angel''
1986	The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest	Colonel Pietruska	Television film
1986	Lytton's Diary	Charlie Rigby	Episode ''Rule of Engagement''
1987	Smith & Jones	Unknown	Episode: #4.2
1987	Harry's Kingdom	Bob Roberts	Television film
1988	Singles	Mr. Broadbent	Episode: ''Money, Money, Money''
1988	Tickets for the Titanic	Brock	Episode: ''Pastoral Care'
1988	ScreenPlay	Mr. Vernon	Episode: ''Starlings''
1988	A Taste for Death	Gordon Halliwell	4 episodes
1988	War & Remembrance	Untersturmfuhrer Klinge	2 episodes
1989	Shadow of the Noose	Van der Hogh	Episode ''Beside the Seaside''
1989	The Nineteenth Hole	Mr. Bennett	7 episodes
1989	Saracen	Metcalf	Episode: ''Crossfire''
1989	The Paradise Club	Bobby Mulgrew	Episode: "Short Story"
1991	Madness	Reenactments	2 episodes
1991	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