David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor, known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple series, and played the title character in Bognor (1981-1982). Other credits include Thriller (1975), The New Avengers (1976), Prince Regent (1979), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987), Piece of Cake (1988), Bulman (1987), Hold the Back Page (1985-1986), Boon (1989), Love Hurts (1992-1993), Westbeach (1993), Just William (194-1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1996), Solomon and Gaenor (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000), Peak Practice (1999-2001), Foyle's War (2002), The Second Coming (2003), Deceit (2000), Sapphire and Steel (2008), Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), White House Farm (2020), House of the Dragon (2022) (as Grand Maester Mellos), Bodies (2023), and The Nun II (2023).
Early life
Horovitch was born in London, the son of Alice Mary, a teacher, and Morris Horovitch, a child care worker. He was educated at St Christopher School, a boarding independent school in the town of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Horovitch was born to an atheist Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother; Horovitch was not brought up in the Jewish faith, but started learning about it in his forties, when he was given a string of Jewish roles.
Career
Horovitch has played many roles on popular British TV shows in the past 40 years including: Thriller (1975), The New Avengers (1976),
In 1984 he played the role of Detective Inspector Slack for the first BBC Miss Marple adaptation, The Body in the Library.
He has also made a number of film appearances, including Sergeant Maskell in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), a French scientist in The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987), In 2019 he played Corporal-Colonel Square in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army. He starred in White House Farm (2020),
Audiobooks
Horovitch has also made numerous audiobooks, including Anna Karenina, The Leopard, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent,
- The Boys in the Band (play) at the Castle Theatre, Farnham (1971)
- Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Greg Hersov at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (Jun 2004)