Lee Ingleby

Lee Ingleby
Born	Lee David Ingleby (1976-01-28) 28 January 1976 Burnley, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Lee Ingleby (born Lee David Ingleby, 28 January 1976) is a British film, television and stage actor.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in the BBC drama Inspector George Gently and as Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He has also appeared as Sean O'Neill in Jimmy McGovern's The Street, a recurring role in the second series of Early Doors as Mel's boyfriend, Dean, and the title character in the new CGI series of Bob the Builder. Another prominent role was his part in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, where he played a nervous Midshipman Hollom. In addition, he played a part in the final episode of series 1 of Life on Mars, playing Sam Tyler's father Vic, and made an appearance in Spaced in 2001.

Early life

Ingleby was born in Burnley, Lancashire, son of Gordon Ingleby and Susan M Hoggarth, and lived in nearby Brierfield during the early part of his life, attending Edge End High School, as did fellow actor John Simm. Both were taught by the same drama teacher who encouraged them into the professional theatre. He then studied at Accrington and Rossendale College before progressing to the drama school LAMDA in London.

Career

Ingleby's first major role was as the young lead in the 2000 BBC miniseries Nature Boy alongside Paul McGann. He played Smike in a 2001 television film version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Also in 2001, he starred in and wrote the screenplay for the short film Cracks in the Ceiling, which he appeared in with his father, Gordon Ingleby.

In the 2002 theatrical release Borstal Boy, based very loosely on the life of Irish poet-activist Brendan Behan, Ingleby played a bully in an English boarding school for juvenile offenders.

He has also made one-off appearances in television programmes such as Hustle, Clocking Off, No Angels, Fat Friends, Jonathan Creek, Dalziel and Pascoe, Cadfael (Pilgrim of Hate) and The Bill. He has had supporting roles in films such as Gustave in Ever After alongside Drew Barrymore and as Hollom in the 2003 Peter Weir film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In 2004, he had a small role in the Orlando Bloom vehicle Haven, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival but was not commercially released until 2006 following heavy re-editing. He also guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Terror Firma.

In 2006 he appeared in Jimmy McGovern BBC TV series The Street, where he played abusive husband Sean O'Neill alongside Christine Bottomley. Another project was the 2006 television adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, in which he played Mole. It also starred Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad and Mark Gatiss as Ratty. He also appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.

Ingleby headed the cast of the 2008 three-part television crime drama Place of Execution as DI George Bennett as he was in the 1960s determined to close the case of a missing girl.

When not working in films and television, Ingleby remains active on the stage, where his credits include Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander in Nicholas Wright's Cressida and Katurian in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.

He performed in the play Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the Cottesloe Theatre from September 2009 to January 2010 as Zygmunt.

In 2011 he appeared in the television series Being Human as Edgar Wyndham, a menacing vampire elder, and also in Luther as serial killer Cameron Pell.

In 2013 Ingleby took on the role of Phillip De Nicholay, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a new audio production of the Robin Hood legend, produced by Spiteful Puppet Archived 2021-01-15 at the Wayback Machine. Released directly to the public as a digital download and on CD, this version, entitled "HOOD: NOBLE SECRETS" Archived 2016-03-23 at the Wayback Machine is a radical departure from the accepted tale with a significant twist on the role and character of the Sheriff, and tells the story of how the sheriff directly causes Robin Hood to come into existence when he seeks out the help of outlaws in Sherwood forest. "HOOD: NOBLE SECRETS" Archived 2016-03-23 at the Wayback Machine won a nomination in the Best Online or Non-Broadcast category at the 2014 BBC Audio Drama Awards. He returned to the role in the follow up "HOOD - The Scribe of Sherwood" which delved further into the past life of the Sheriff and other characters from the world of "HOOD". Once again, it won a nomination in the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards in the category of Best Online or Non-Broadcast production, going on to win. In the same year, two more feature length audio stories (Warriors' Harvest and King's Command) have been produced by Spiteful Puppet with Ingleby once again playing the role of "De Nicholay".

In 2015 Ingleby plays Bob in the new 2015 computer-generated series of Bob the Builder.

The same year, Ingleby provided spoken word narration on the progrock album Please Come Home which the British musician John Mitchell released under the project name Lonely Robot.

Ingleby has been starring as DS John Bacchus in the BBC police drama Inspector George Gently since 2007.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1998	Ever After	Gustave
2000	Borstal Boy	Dale
2001	Cracks in the Ceiling	Lad
2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Smike
2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Midshipman Hollom
2004	Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban	Stan Shunpike
2004	Haven	Patrick
2005	The Headsman	Bernhard
2006	The Wind in the Willows	Mole
2007	The Last Legion	Germanus
2008	Post-It Love	Boy
2009	Doghouse	Matt

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Soldier Soldier	Kevin Fitzpatrick
1998	Killer Net	Gordon
1998	In the Red	Paul
1998	The Bill	Ian	Episode: "Puzzled"
1998	Cadfael	Waiter
1999	Junk	Rob
1999	The Dark Room	Bobby Franklyn
1999	Dalziel and Pascoe	Kieron Cumming	Episode: "The British Grenadier"
2000	Jonathon Creek	Derek Spratley	Episode: "The Three Gamblers"
2000	Nature Boy	David
2001	Spaced	Romford Thug Leader	Episode: "Gone"
2002	Impact	Peter Stamford
2002	Clocking Off	Steven Dugdale
2002	Fat Friends	Craig	Episode: "Sweet and Flour"
2004	No Angels	Nurse Carl Jenkins
2004	Blue Murder	Roger Boersma	Episode: "Up in Smoke"
2004	Early Doors	Dean
2005	Hustle	Trevor Speed	Episode: "The Lesson"
2005	Coming Up	Gabriel	Episode "Karma Cowboys"
2006	Life on Mars	Vic Tyler
2006	The Street	Sean O'Neill
2007-present	Inspector George Gently	Detective Sergeant John Bacchus
2007	The Worst Journey in the World	Birdie Bowers	Docudrama
2008	Fairy Tales	Jimmy Stojkovic	Episode: "Rapunzel"
2008	Place of Execution	DI George Bennett
2008	Agatha Christie's Marple	Colin Hards	Episode: "Nemesis"
2008	Crooked House	Ben
2011	Being Human	Edgar Wyndam
2011	Luther	Cameron Pell
2012	White Heat	Alan
2012	Sinbad	Riff
2014	Quirke	Leslie White
2014	Our Zoo	George Mottershead
2015	Bob the Builder	Bob the Builder

Radio

• Cry Hungary (as Peter Kovacs), BBC Radio 4, 2006
• Radio Head, Up and Down the Dial of British Radio by John Osborne, Book of the Week, BBC Radio 4, 2009
• A Kind of Loving (as Vic Brown), BBC Radio 4, 2010
• Hood: Noble Secrets Archived 2016-03-23 at the Wayback Machine (as Phillip De Nicholay – Sheriff of Nottingham), Spiteful Puppet Archived 2021-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, 2013

Other websites

• Lee Ingleby on IMDb
• Lee Ingleby on Twitter