Steve Speirs

Steve Speirs

Born: February 22, 1965
in Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Steven Roberts, better known as Steve Speirs, is a Welsh actor.

Since graduating from university, Speirs has played Sloan in Eragon, Andy Fellows in Making Waves and the "pathetic loser" Dullard alongside Ricky Gervais in Extras, as well as having small parts in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Captain Tarpals) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

He appears in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, a comedy fantasy series in which he plays Loquasto, an oafish servant, "who belongs to a race of pig-like creatures known as Grobble".

Speirs often goes by the name of "Dullard" in honour of his role in Extras, as he considers the character a mirror of himself.

Speirs also appeared in the Gervais and Stephen Merchant film Cemetery Junction, released in 2010, a part which was written particularly for Speirs. Speirs also starred as the bouncer at Mother McOakley's Tavern in Burke and Hare, a British black comedy directed by John Landis and released (in the United Kingdom) in October 2010.

Other roles which Spiers is known for include his portrayal of Bernard Bresslaw in Cor, Blimey!, Big Alan Williams in Stellaand Colour Sergeant Wormwood in Sharpe's Peril. Speirs played depressed geography teacher and caretaker Mr Gareth Barber in the BBC One sitcom Big School for two series in 2013 and 2014.

In 2013, Steve played PC McClintock in the Christmas TV film Gangsta Granny, an adaptation of the book written by David Walliams.

He played the role of Dad in the 2014 TV film The Boy in the Dress, also written by Walliams.

Movies for Steve Speirs...

One Night Only
Title: One Night Only
Character: Morian
Released: December 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Touring pub singer, Bex, lets her celebrity delusions get in the way of her relationship with her daughter, Rhian, who is left to pick up the pieces when faced with the cruel reality of her mother's lifestyle.
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How to Fix a Railway
Title: How to Fix a Railway
Character: Narrator
Released: March 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A multibillion-pound investment is underway to make our railways bigger, better and faster, and over three years, we go behind the scenes with Wales’s newest rail body as they try to make ambitious promises a reality.
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Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
Title: Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
Character: PC McClintock
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
We join Ben a year on as he is getting used to life without his beloved Gran. With the memory of their daring Crown Jewel heist still fresh in his mind, he is stunned to learn another spate of thefts are beginning to occur - with all the clues pointing to The Black Cat, better known to Ben as Granny!
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Concrete Plans
Title: Concrete Plans
Character: Bob
Released: October 23, 2020
Type: Movie
When their employer tries to cheat them out of a job, a rugged crew of workmen turn first on him then each other, leading to a bloody confrontation.
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Title: The Tuckers
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
A character-led comedy about a family of chancers, low on cash but high on spirit - determined to survive through any means necessary. They run a catering business and a few things on the side. Peggy rules the roost with her son Glyn next in command. His children Billy and Bobby are never far from trouble, and Bobby's ex-wife Natalie lives next door, with Shaks, a young girl with an appetite for mayhem.
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Denmark
Title: Denmark
Character: Harry the Horse
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns from a TV news report that Danish prisoners have it way better than he does: a job, accessible healthcare, the quiet of the countryside, even an HDTV. They’re practically living in hotels. He says goodbye (and good riddance) to his dingy flat and smuggles himself to Denmark aboard a cargo ship, landing in a quaint town with everything he needs -- including a bank to rob. But when he meets a friendly local barmaid and a lovable stray dog that won’t leave his side, he begins to wonder if prison really is his only chance of a fulfilling life.
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Title: Decline and Fall
Character: Davis
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: TV
Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
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Title: Rovers
Character: Tel
Released: May 24, 2016
Type: TV
Established in 1884, Redbridge Rovers F.C. are one of the oldest club's in England - and one of the worst. A sitcom that introduces us to the characters who gather within the social club of a non-league football club.
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Title: Upstart Crow
Character: Burbage
Released: May 9, 2016
Type: TV
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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The Bad Education Movie
Title: The Bad Education Movie
Character: Don
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
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The Boy in the Dress
Title: The Boy in the Dress
Character: Peter Sims
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum left. However, transformation can happen in the most unexpected places. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - but can a boy wear a dress, and what will the headmaster, his dad and his friends on the football team think if they find out?
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Set Fire to the Stars
Title: Set Fire to the Stars
Released: November 7, 2014
Type: Movie
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Mitch
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Gangsta Granny
Title: Gangsta Granny
Character: PC McClintock
Released: December 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A young boy is bored spending time with his dull grandma until he discovers she's an international Jewel thief.
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Title: Big School
Character: Mr Barber
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: TV
A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French teacher, who in turn is being chased by a lothario gym teacher.
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Title: Cuckoo
Character: Barman
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: TV
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: McMartin's Doorman
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Cemetery Junction
Title: Cemetery Junction
Character: Sgt. Wyn Davies
Released: April 14, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
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A Child's Christmases in Wales
Title: A Child's Christmases in Wales
Character: Uncle Huw
Released: December 17, 2009
Type: Movie
One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story. Christmas in this household may be a less than poetic affair, but it is just as eventful. So much changes across a decade in any family, and yet so much manages to remain the same.
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Title: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Character: Piotr
Released: April 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
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Title: Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: TV
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery series created by Peter A. Knight, co-produced by Hat Trick Productions and Media Rights Capital for Comedy Central and BBC Two, which premiered on April 9, 2009 in the USA and on June 11 in the UK. It began airing on July 8 in Canada, on Citytv. In August 2009, it was reported that the series was canceled after Comedy Central pulled out of the production, but the BBC has retracted this claim, stating that a second series could be produced if they were able to gain a new funding partner. According to Jimmy Mulville of Hat Trick Productions, "There is a bit of misinformation going on. As far as the writers and the controller of BBC comedy and the controller of BBC2 and Matt Lucas are concerned, we are developing a second series."
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Inkheart
Title: Inkheart
Character: Flatnose
Released: December 11, 2008
Type: Movie
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
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Sharpe's Peril
Title: Sharpe's Peril
Character: Wormwood
Released: November 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Eric Jenkins
Released: January 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.
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The Baker
Title: The Baker
Character: Bryn
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfil a contract for the first time, Milo escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
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Eragon
Title: Eragon
Character: Sloan
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Character: Quartermaster - Edinburgh (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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The Last Drop
Title: The Last Drop
Character: Gustav Hansfeld
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
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Title: Extras
Character: Dullard
Released: July 21, 2005
Type: TV
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Commissioner Strickland / Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Doctor Who
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Making Waves
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: TV
Making Waves is a British television drama series produced by Carlton Television for ITV. It was created by Ted Childs and chronicles the professional and personal lives of the crew of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Suffolk. The series remained in development hell for several years and was first broadcast on 7 July 2004. However, due to low ratings it was removed from the schedules after only three episodes, the remainder of the series going unaired on television in the United Kingdom. The series starred Alex Ferns as Commander Martin Brooke and Emily Hamilton as Lieutenant Commander Jenny Howard. The frigate HMS Grafton stood in for Suffolk and additional filming took place around HMNB Portsmouth with the full co-operation of the Royal Navy. A limited-edition DVD of all six episodes was released in December 2004.
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The Baby Juice Express
Title: The Baby Juice Express
Character: Mystery Man
Released: April 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A middle class London lad’s gangster fantasies go awry when his dodgy uncle puts them into debt to a real life crime boss. Still pulling strings from behind bars, the kingpin’s only desire is to conceive an heir by smuggling his sperm to his wife on the outside. There’s only one way the boys know how to raise the money fast … hijack the ‘baby juice express’. But kidnapping ‘baby juice’ turns out to be fraught with even more peril than the bumbling wannabes could possibly have imagined in this cheeky spin on the gangster genre. Starring Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), with Julian Clary (one of Britain’s funniest) and Joe Bugner (former boxing champion and one of Australia’s toughest!).
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The Planman
Title: The Planman
Character: Darren Westcoate
Released: March 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
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The Musketeer
Title: The Musketeer
Character: Porthos
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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Cor, Blimey!
Title: Cor, Blimey!
Character: Bernard Bresslaw
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Rancid Aluminium
Title: Rancid Aluminium
Character: BMW Man (as Steven Speirs)
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
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Topsy-Turvy
Title: Topsy-Turvy
Character: Mr Kent
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: Movie
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
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Tube Tales
Title: Tube Tales
Character: Tweed Suit (segment "Rosebud")
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Character: Captain Tarpals
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
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A Knight in Camelot
Title: A Knight in Camelot
Character: Chief Armorer
Released: November 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
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The Very Thought of You
Title: The Very Thought of You
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, the narrative moving backwards and forwards gradually filling in the gaps until we see the whole picture
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Herbie Bryant
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Title: Keeping Mum
Character: Leonard
Released: April 17, 1997
Type: TV
Sitcom about an elderly woman who's starting to find her memory wandering while being watched over by her son and his wife.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Keith Carter
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
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.
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House of America
Title: House of America
Character: The Head
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Character: Arthur Evans
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Title: Goodnight Sweetheart
Released: November 18, 1993
Type: TV
Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when he stumbles upon a portal to WWII-era London and begins a dual life as an accidental time traveler.
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Tender Loving Care
Title: Tender Loving Care
Character: Porter
Released: October 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Bruce
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
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The Old Devils
Title: The Old Devils
Character: Gareth's Fan in Pub
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
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Title: Murder Most Horrid
Character: DI Hooper
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!