Kevin Whately (born 6 February 1951) is an English actor.Whately is primarily known for his role as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse and Lewis, his role as Neville Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and his role as Dr Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, although he has appeared in numerous other roles.
[on Inspector Lewis (2006)] It was coming up with the idea of a prototype Morse - the Hathaway character - that I think has made it.
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It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks. I don't meant to slight them in any way, but Frost and Midsomer Murders, although they have got ongoing sidekicks, didn't seem to develop them as much as we always have.
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I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.
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John had a wonderful sense of humor which is belied sometimes by journalists' impression of him as irascible. He loathed the whole celebrity circuit. In between takes he was like an Irish storyteller in a bar - he wouldn't tell jokes, just stories and you would find yourself rolling around and crying with laughter. He was a wonderful mimic, particularly of people on the set rather than famous people. (On John Thaw)
He told Colin Dexter that he would like to have played cricket professionally for England if he had not become an actor, so Dexter devised the storyline for Inspector Morse: Deceived by Flight (1989) in which Sergeant Lewis has to go undercover in a cricket team to investigate drug smuggling.
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Before becoming an actor, he trained as an accountant.
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His brother, Frank, is a drama lecturer at a London university.
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Despite training as an actor in London, Kevin retained his strong Newcastle accent, which was still unusual for an actor at that time.
Studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Children, with Madelaine Newton: Catherine Whately ("Kitty"), born in 1983 and Kieran, born in 1985. Catherine appeared as Kevin's on-screen daughter in the series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) for the first two seasons.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Still Game
2016
TV Series
Cameron Hastie
Masterpiece Mystery
2009-2016
TV Series
inspector Lewis
Inspector Lewis
2006-2015
TV Series
DI Robert Lewis
DI Lewis
Inspector George Gently
2012
TV Series
Donald McGhee
Joe Maddison's War
2010
TV Movie
Joe Maddison
The Children
2008
TV Mini-Series
Cameron
Cameron Miller
Who Gets the Dog?
2007
TV Movie
Jack Evans
The Fourth King
2006
Short
Narrator
Dogtown
2006
TV Series
Bus Driver
New Tricks
2006
TV Series
Andrew Simson
Footprints in the Snow
2005
TV Movie
Kevin Hill
Dad
2005
TV Movie
Oliver James
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983-2004
TV Series
Neville Hope
Belonging
2004
TV Movie
Jacob Copplestone
Sunday for Sammy 2004
2004
Video
Neville Hope
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
TV Movie
Wolf
Promoted to Glory
2003
TV Movie
Maj. Nigel Hurst
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
2003
Short
Akela (voice)
Silent Cry
2002
Dr. Richard Herd
Plain Jane
2002
TV Movie
David Bruce
Mersey Beat
2001
TV Series
Philip Kitchener
Murder in Mind
2001
TV Series
Nigel Liddy
Inspector Morse: Rest in Peace
2000
Video
Sergeant Lewis
Inspector Morse
1987-2000
TV Series
Detective Sergeant Lewis
Purely Belter
2000
Mr. Caird
Paranoid
2000/I
Clive
Pure Wickedness
1999
TV Series
Geoff Meadows
Hilltop Hospital
1999
TV Series
Dr. Matthews
The People's Passion
1999
TV Movie
Judas
What Katy Did
1999
TV Movie
Dr. Philip Carr
Gobble
1997
TV Movie
Colin Worsfold, a civil servant
The English Patient
1996
Sgt. Hardy
Trip Trap
1996
TV Movie
Ian Armstrong
Peak Practice
1993-1995
TV Series
Dr. Jack Kerruish
Screen Two
1994
TV Series
Sam Hopkins
B & B
1992
Steve Shepherd
Screenplay
1990
TV Series
Neil Baldwin
You Must Be the Husband
1988
TV Series
Hugo Mansell
Look and Read
1988
TV Series
Ray Hilton
Alas Smith & Jones
1987
TV Series
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985
TV Mini-Series
Detective Sergeant Fletcher
Icebound in the Antarctic
1983
TV Mini-Series
Jameson Adams
The Return of the Soldier
1982
Hostile Soldier's Mate
Coronation Street
1981
TV Series
Kevin
Strangers
1980
TV Series
Michael Hobb
Juliet Bravo
1980
TV Series
PC Chris Evans
Angels
1980
TV Series
Norman Pollard
Fair Stood the Wind for France
1980
TV Mini-Series
Lancaster crew
BBC2 Playhouse
1980
TV Series
Bob Smith
Shoestring
1979
TV Series
Bobby Treen
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2016
TV Series
Kevin Whately
The Sound of ITV: The Nation's Favourite Theme Tunes
2015
TV Movie documentary
Himself / Lewis
Sunday for Sammy
2014
Himself
Back with the Boys Again - Auf Wiedersehen Pet 30th Anniversary Reunion