John Maurice Roëves (; 19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a Scottish actor. His breakthrough performance was as Stephen Dedalus in the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. He was a regular fixture on BBC and BBC Scotland programmes, often portraying what The Guardian called "tough guys, steely villains or stalwart military figures with directness, authenticity and spiky energy".

Roëves's first notable roles were in films. He played the leading role of Stephen Dedalus in the film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses (1967) and also appeared in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). Other films he acted in include A Day at the Beach (1970), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Hidden Agenda (1990), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Judge Dredd (1995), The Acid House (1998) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air.

Filmography

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!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

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|1966

|The Fighting Prince of Donegal

|Martin

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|1967

|Ulysses

|Stephen Dedalus

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|1969

|Oh! What a Lovely War

|George Patrick Michael Smith

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|1970

|A Day at the Beach

|Nicholas

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|1971

|When Eight Bells Toll

|Lt. Williams

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|1972

|Young Winston

|Brockie

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|-

|1976

|The Eagle Has Landed

|Maj. Corcoran

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|-

| rowspan="2" |1981

|Outland

|First Victim

|Uncredited

|-

|Escape to Victory

|Captain Pyrie

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|-

|1982

|Who Dares Wins

|Maj. Steele

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|-

| rowspan="2" |1990

|Hidden Agenda

|Harris

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|-

|The Big Man

|Cam Colvin

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|1992

|The Last of the Mohicans

|Col. Edmund Munro

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|-

|1995

|Judge Dredd

|Miller

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|-

|1996

|Guardians

|Sergeant Reed

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|1998

|The Acid House

|God/Drunk/Priest

|Segments: "The Granton Star Cause", "A Soft Touch" and "The Acid House"

|-

|2000

|Beautiful Creatures

|Ronnie McMinn

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|-

|2003

|Solid Air

|Robert Houston

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|2005

|The Dark

|Dafydd

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|2007

|Hallam Foe

|Raymond

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|-

|2008

|Fast Track: No Limits

|Schmitty

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|-

|2009

|The Damned United

|Jimmy Gordon

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|-

|2010

|Brighton Rock

|Chief Inspector

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|-

|2013

|Harrigan

|Billy Davidson

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|-

|2014

|Luna

|Jacob As The Doctor

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|2015

|Macbeth

|Menteith

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|}

Television

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!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

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| rowspan="2" |1966

|Dr. Finlay's Casebook

|Mr. Thompson

|Episode: "For Services Rendered"

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|The Wednesday Play

|Ian Tiggott

|Episode: "Cook, Hen and Courting Pitt"

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|1967

|The Revenue Men

|Private Bingham

|Episode: "Swallowtale"

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| rowspan="2" |1969

|Scobie in September

|Scobie

|Miniseries

|-

|ITV Playhouse

|Geoff/Sam/Franco

|Episode: "Square on the Hypotenuse"

|-

| rowspan="3" |1970

|The Borderers

|Robert Scott

|Episode: "Where the White Lillies Grow"

|-

|Doomwatch

|Peter Shipton

|Episode: "The Devil's Sweets"

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|Thirty-Minute Theatre

|Cass

|Episode: "The Tidewatchers"

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| rowspan="3" |1971

|A Family at War

|Sergeant Hazard

|Episode: "Hazard"

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|Out of the Unknown

|Stephen Chambers

|Episode: "Taste of Evil"

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|Paul Temple

|Japp

|Episode: "Critics, Yes! But This Is Ridiculous!"

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|1971-1976

|Play for Today

|Various

|3 episodes

|-

|1971-1979

|Jackanory

|Storyteller

|4 stories

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| rowspan="3" |1972

|Dixon of Dock Green

|Richard Bennett

|Episode: "Molenzicht"

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|The Shadow of the Tower

|Humphrey Stafford

|2 episodes

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|Jason King

|Riguera

|Episode: "A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer"

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| rowspan="2" |1973

|Scotch on the Rocks

|Brodie

|Miniseries

|-

|Sutherland's Law

|Callum Lithgow

|Episode: "The Climb"

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|1974

|Marked Personal

|Peter Barker

|2 episodes

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| rowspan="4" |1975

|Whodunnit?

|Ian Cockburn

|Episode: "Death at the Top"

|-

|Oil Strike North

|McGraw

|3 episodes

|-

|The Sweeney

|Phil Deacon

|Episode: "Big Brother"

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|Crown Court

|Bernard Watson

|Serial: "Dicing"

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| rowspan="2" |1977

|Warship

|Sub-Lieutenant Carwith

|Episode: "Jack Fell Down"

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|Target

|Harry Skeats

|Episode: "Blow Out"

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|1978

|Return of the Saint

|Willcox

|Episode: "The Judas Game"

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| rowspan="2" |1979

|Danger UXB

|Sergeant James

|Miniseries

|-

|S.O.S. Titanic

|Leading Stoker: Fred Barret

|TV movie

|-

|1980

|BBC Television Shakespeare

|Antonio

|Episode: Twelfth Night

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| rowspan="2" |1981

|BBC2 Playhouse

|Adolf Hitler

|Episode: "Journal of Bridget Hitler"

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|The Nightmare Man

|Inspector Inskip

|Miniseries

|-

| rowspan="2" |1982

|Inside the Third Reich

|Rudolf Hess

|TV movie

|-

|The Chinese Detective

|Doc Halliday

|Episode: "Bounty Hunter"

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| rowspan="3" |1984

|Magnum, P.I.

|Hopkins

|Episode: "Holmes is Where the Heart Is"

|-

|Doctor Who

|Stotz

|Serial: "The Caves of Androzani"

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|Remington Steele

|Angus Whitewood

|Episode: "Blue Blooded Steele"

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| rowspan="4" |1985

|Lytton's Diary

|Maxim

|Episode: "Come Uppance"

|-

|Code Name: Foxfire

|

|Episode: "Goodbye, Mr Microchips"

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|Big Deal

|Mr. Smith

|Episode: "Windfall"

|-

|Bergerac

|Vacarro

|Episode: "Sins of the Fathers"

|-

|1985-1989

|Days of Our Lives

|David Helpern/The Professor

|15 episodes

|-

|1986

|North and South

|Shain

|Book Two: "Love and War"

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|1987

|Tutti Frutti

|Vincent Driver

|Miniseries

|-

|1988

|The Play on One

|Jack

|Episode: "Unreported Incident"

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| rowspan="2" |1989

|Hunter

|Michael Mullenby

|Episode: "Blood Line"

|-

|Jake and the Fatman

|Tattooist

|Episode: "It Ain't Necessarily So"

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| rowspan="4" |1991

|El C.I.D.

|Charlie

|Episode: "Piece of Cake"

|-

|The New Statesman

|Ken Price

|Episode: "Natural Selection"

|-

|Spender

|Mal Balmer

|Episode: "Tough"

|-

|Rumpole of the Bailey

|Clive Clympton

|Episode: "Rumpole and the Right to Silence"

|-

| rowspan="3" |1992

|Moon and Son

|Russ Napley

|Episode: "Music in the Air"

|-

|Rab C. Nesbitt

|Young Young McGurn

|Episode: "That's Entertainment"

|-

|Baywatch

|Roland

|Episode: "Princess of Tides"

|-

| rowspan="2" |1993

|Cheers

|Sean

|Episode: "Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey"

|-

|Star Trek: The Next Generation

|Romulan Captain

|Episode: "The Chase"

|-

|1994

|Murder, She Wrote

|Police Captain

|Episode: "Fatal Paradise"

|-

|1995-1996

|Moses

|Zerack

|2 episodes

|-

|1996

|Hillsborough

|Chief Superintendent Duckenfield

|TV movie

|-

| rowspan="2" |1998

|Grafters

|Lennie

|3 episodes

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|Vanity Fair

|Captain McMurdo

|1 episode

|-

|2000

|Forgive and Forget

|Michael O'Neil

|TV movie

|-

| rowspan="2" |2003

|A Touch of Frost

|Mr. McIntosh

|Episode: "Close Encounters"

|-

|EastEnders

|Geoff

|2 episodes

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| rowspan="2" |2004

|William and Mary

|Ally

|1 episode

|-

|The Bill

|DI Tom Henry

|2 episodes

|-

|2004-2007

|Holby City

|Roy Collins/Cecil Heaney

|3 episodes

|-

|2006

|Surviving Disaster

|Matt Busby

|Episode: "Munich Air Crash"

|-

| rowspan="3" |2008

|Trial & Retribution

|Ken Randle

|2 episodes

|-

|Skins

|Alex

|Episode: "Sid"

|-

|The Invisibles

|McLelland

|1 episode

|-

|2009

|New Tricks

|Frank Powell

|Episode: "Death of a Timeshare Salesman"

|-

|2010

|Casualty

|Carl Jackson

| rowspan="2" |2 episodes

|-

|2010-2013

|Doctors

|William McIntyre/Earnest Pike

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|2012

|Falcón

|Virgilio Guzmán

|Episode: "The Silent and the Damned"

|-

| rowspan="2" |2013

|Case Histories

|Ray

|Episode: "Started Early, Took My Dog"

|-

|Southcliffe

|Marsden

|2 episodes

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|2016

|Two Doors Down

|Willie

| rowspan="2" |1 episode

|-

|2020

|The Nest

|Lenny

|}

References

  • 2012 Interview with Maurice Roeves
  • Maurice Roëves (Aveleyman)