David Neilson
Birthday: 1949-03-13
Place of Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
Biography: David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying cafe owner Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. In a break from the show in 2016, Neilson starred in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Home in Manchester. Prior to taking up the role of Roy Cropper, Neilson appeared in several TV shows including Boys from The Blackstuff, Resnick, Secret Army, Once Upon a Time in the North, Blue Heaven, Bergerac, Casualty and EastEnders, and in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies.
Movies
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
What could be better? A footballer's wedding, a week in the sun, a luxury villa in historic Transylv...
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Sons and Lovers
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel...
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Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of ...
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Resnick: Rough Treatment
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV ...
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Life Is Sweet
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy c...
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Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...
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Knights & Emeralds
A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A ...
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Majority
Single mother and immigrant Sonia Diaconescu works at a sheltered accommodation scheme. A resident o...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occas...
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