Diamond Geezer is a British

United Kingdom

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 television

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 drama

Drama

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 written by Caleb Ranson which stars David Jason

David Jason

Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

 as a jewel thief and professional con man.

Background

The first series of Diamond Geezer was supposed to be a one off special ITV

ITV

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 drama starring David Jason

David Jason

Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

 as a long-serving prison inmate trying to persuade a first time offender to join forces with him in his new big scam. It was broadcast on 20 March 2005.

After a successful pilot episode however it was decided that David Jason

David Jason

Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

 would reprise his role as Des in a new three-part series, which began on 9 April 2007.

In the US the series was released under the title Rough Diamond.

Diamond Geezer 1

The pilot episode of Diamond Geezer was aired on the 20 March 2005. It starred David Jason as a long-serving prison inmate Des. His character comes across as a frail old man who is honest and open. This gains the respect of most of the inmates and prison guards alike. What they fail to realise is Des's master plan, which is to commit the 'perfect crime' and steal valuable diamonds from fellow inmate and notorious bully Benny. He takes petty theft criminal Phil under his wing to hatch the devious and dangerous plan.

Diamond Geezer 2

The second series premièred on 9 April 2007 and saw a return of David Jason and Stephen Wight

Stephen Wight

Stephen Wight is a British actor, who trained at the Drama Centre London.-Career:Wight's television career dates back to 2003 with a minor part in Casualty....

 as Des and Phil.

Others Alphabetical (From series 1 & 2)

• Reece Andrews - Prison Guard
• Jenny Agutter
  Jenny Agutter
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...
  
   - Vanessa
• Paul Bown
  Paul Bown
  Paul Bown is an English actor. He is best known as one of the leading roles of the Granada Television comedy Watching . Bown has also appeared in various plays and shows, including an advert for Toffee Crisp in the 1980s and more recently as Philip Reid in BBC's Holby City...
  
   - Guv'nor
• Frank Brunet - Jules
• Nick Burnell - Callow
• George Cole - Gerald
• Linda Duffield - Waitress
• Elly Fairman - Gloria
• Andrew Grainger - Roberts
• Michael Klesic
  Michael Klesic
  Michael Vladimir Klesic is an American actor.Klesic was born in Tarzana, California. He was raised mostly in Los Angeles and attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California...
  
   - Russian Security Agent
• Des McAleer - Martins
• Carli Norris
  Carli Norris
  Carli Norris is an English stage, film and television actress.On TV, she first appeared as Alice McMahon in Eastenders, the title character in Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter, central characters in In Deep, Grafters, Roger Roger, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Frank Skinner's Shane, The House that...
  
   - Betsy
• Miranda Pleasence - Miranda
• Ieuan Rhys
  Ieuan Rhys
  Ieuan Rhys is an actor. He attended Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Aberdar primary school, and Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen secondary school near Pontypridd, both Welsh language schools. His father, Gethin Evans, was a music teacher at the nearby comprehensive school...
  
   - Jenx
• Oggie Smith - Russian Security Guard
• Robert Stone - Prison henchman
• Simon Paul Sutton - Denver
• Mary Tamm
  Mary Tamm
  Mary Tamm is an English actress. She is best known for being the first actress to play the character of Romana in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, opposite Tom Baker as the Doctor, from the 1978–1979 season known collectively as The Key to Time.-Early life:Mary Tamm was born in...
  
  - Maureen
• Daniel Tatarsky - Boris Pudovnik
• Richard Vanstone - Winters
• Crystal Yu - Ping

External links

• Article about Diamond Geezer 2