Todd Carty
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Todd Carty is an Irish
actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles. His stage work has varied from pantomime
to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations, and films. He is best known for his roles as Tucker Jenkins
in Grange Hill
, Mark Fowler
in EastEnders
, and villainous policeman Gabriel Kent
in The Bill
.
when Carty was a child and he spent his early years in Kilburn, North London
, before moving to Harrow
, Middlesex
, when he was 8 years old. As of 2009, Carty lives in Muswell Hill
, North London. He has been in a relationship since 1990 with his childhood sweetheart
and business partner, actress/writer and film producer Dina Clarkin - the daughter of Irish actor Tony Clarkin
. The couple have known each other since childhood through their parents, and have two sons, James and Thomas. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, Carty explained how he first met Clarkin when she was a 5-year-old child actress and he a 14-year-old, through their parents. Carty describes Dina as his soul mate.
actor Jon Pertwee
for the "Green Cross Code
".
He made his first stage appearance at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, as the young Lionel in Lionel Bart
's autobiographical musical Lionel
; however, his television career in his youth was mostly defined by his role as Tucker Jenkins in Phil Redmond
's popular BBC
drama Grange Hill
(1978–1982), and the subsequent spin off series Tucker's Luck
(1983–1985).
During the 1970s and 1980s, Carty also appeared in Z-Cars
(1976), Our Mutual Friend
, Drummer, and Headmaster, all for the BBC. And for German TV, Focus on Britain and The Idle Bunch. His film work at the time included Please Sir!
(1971) and Professor Popper's Problem
(1974). In 1983, he landed the role of Oswyn in the fantasy film Krull
opposite Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony
, Liam Neeson
, and Alun Armstrong
, amongst others.
in BBC's EastEnders
in 1990, following the death of the original actor, David Scarboro
. Carty played the role for 13 years, becoming one of the longest-running male cast-members. In July 2002, the BBC
announced that Mark Fowler was being written out of the serial, a mutual decision between the producers and Carty. Executive producer Louise Berridge
said that Carty had made a "fantastic contribution" to the soap and Mark had been a "pivotal figure", but the character had finally run its course: "Todd and I have discussed this at some length and agreed that it was time for Mark to hang up his leather jacket for the last time. We will all miss Todd, who is one of our best-loved actors, and wish him every success in the future." Carty made his final appearance as Mark in February 2003, riding out of the Square on his motorbike. The character subsequently died off-screen in 2004.
After leaving EastEnders in 2003, Carty went on to play "villain evil copper", PC Gabriel Kent
, in ITV
's The Bill
for more than two years from 2003 to 2005. Carty has since revealed that he broke his EastEnders contract a year earlier than planned to take on this new role.
in the Victorian
period adventure film The Black Velvet Band, a spaghetti western
-style drama. Carty was the subject of a This Is Your Life
tribute in 2000. Guests included Wendy Richard
, Norman Wisdom
, Nick Berry
, his partner Dina Clarkin, sons James Carty and Thomas Carty, and his father-in-law, actor Tony Clarkin
.
After leaving The Bill in 2005, he returned to the big screen as the aristocrat Harvey Van Bollingbroke in the movie Treasure of Albion (2006). Carty acted in The School That Roared (2009) as the eccentric Mr. Haig, for which he was also second-unit director.
He has guest-starred as Ray Hallam in the Christmas special of the TV series Heartbeat, and in BBC's Holby City
, as villain Cameron Cooke. In 2008, he guest-starred in BBC's Doctors
, playing the part of Kev Blake.
In 2003, Carty reprised the role of Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill, as the uncle of one the pupils, Patrick "Togger" Johnson. He appeared in just this one episode, but he was brought back once again to film for Grange Hill's final series, broadcast in 2008 — a one-off special episode to celebrate the 30th birthday of the long-running BBC TV show. Carty appeared as Tucker in the final televised episode of Grange Hill, which was screened on Monday, 15 September 2008 on BBC1.
Carty was a guest on the BBC1 show I'd Do Anything
, in May 2008, with Cameron Mackintosh
, helping to choose one of the selected boys to play Oliver Twist
for the new West End production of Oliver!
.
Carty and his eldest son, James, filmed together in a factual television series for Five, "Dangerous Adventures For Boys", based on the book written by Conn
and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys
. James Carty, aged 11 at the time of broadcast, became the youngest person to drive a steam train across the North York Moors
18-mile line from Grosmont, North Yorkshire to Pickering
, built in the 1830s.
of the UK version of Dancing On Ice
, which began on 10 January 2009. Carty partnered professional skater Susie Lipanova
and was heavily criticised by the judging panel for his apparent lack of skating ability. In the weeks he and Lipanova competed, they finished bottom of the leaderboard, scoring 7.5 in their first week, 9.5 for their next appearance in week three, and 7.5 and 8.5 for weeks four and five respectively. During the routine in week three, Carty lost control on the ice so badly that he ended up stumbling into the off-stage area, disappearing from public view, leaving Lipanova to complete the routine alone. Despite this, the public vote carried the couple through to the next round. He was eliminated in the 5th round.
; The Three Loves of Ida Bliss, We Are Happy, Wavelength, Midweek, Jellybones, The London Particulars, and The Chocolate Frigate. Narration work includes Paddington Green, the story of New York subway's Guardian Angels Scene in New York, The Fame Game,
Driving Mum Crazy, Snapshot-Eddie Kidd, The Jungle Creatures, and many more. In 1989, Carty reprised the role of Tucker in the musical stage version of the television series Grange Hill: Grange Hill: Tucker's Return, at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
. Between 2007 and 2008, he toured the UK in The Business of Murder as Police Detective Hallett. Todd Carty and Wendy Richard
(who played his screen mother Pauline
in EastEnders) presented "50 Greatest Families" on Sky One
in March 2008.
Todd Carty stars as Patsy
, from May 2010, in the Monty Python
touring production of Spamalot
.
, and starred as Buttons in Cinderella
at the Gatehouse Theatre Stafford
from 14 December 1993 to 2 January 1994. He later starred with Barbara Windsor
as the captain's mate in Dick Whittington at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford
.
He also appeared as "King Rat" with Basil Brush
in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Wycombe Swan Theatre between 2005 and 2006.
He reprised the role of King Rat in a new version of Dick Whittington, at the Capitol Theatre, Horsham
, which ran from 13 December 2007 to 6 January 2008. In December 2008, Carty starred as the evil Ferdinand Fleshcreep (The Giant's Evil Assistant) in Jack and the Beanstalk
at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple
. The show ran from Friday 12 December 2008 to Sunday, 4 January 2009. Todd Carty starred as Buttons in Cinderella
at the Pavilion Theatre
Worthing
from 10 December 2009 to 3 January 2010.
. Carty is directing his first feature film, The Perfect Burger
(2010), set in the Leicestershire
town of Hinckley
. The film is mainly being shot at the Hinckley campus of North Warwickshire and Hinckley College.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles. His stage work has varied from pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations, and films. He is best known for his roles as Tucker Jenkins
Tucker Jenkins
Peter "Tucker" Jenkins is a fictional character in Grange Hill, who appeared from the first episode in 1978 to 1982, and with cameo appearances in 2003 and the last ever episode in 2008. Tucker was played by British actor Todd Carty.-Series 1:...
in Grange Hill
Grange Hill
Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
, Mark Fowler
Mark Fowler
Mark Albert Fowler is a fictional character from the popular British BBC soap opera EastEnders. Mark was an original regular character in the series starting February 1985 but became a semi-regular after his original portrayer David Scarboro was written out of the role in April 1985. Scarboro made...
in EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
, and villainous policeman Gabriel Kent
Gabriel Kent
Gabriel Kent is a fictional character in The Bill. He was played by Todd Carty from 2003 to 2005.-Personal life and background:PC Gabriel Kent was the most corrupt and deranged police officers ever to work at Sun Hill....
in The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
.
Personal life
Born in Limerick City in 1963, his family emigrated to EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
when Carty was a child and he spent his early years in Kilburn, North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
, before moving to Harrow
Harrow, London
Harrow is an area in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, United Kingdom. It is a suburban area and is situated 12.2 miles northwest of Charing Cross...
, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
, when he was 8 years old. As of 2009, Carty lives in Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill is a suburb of north London, mostly in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated about north of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. Muswell Hill is in the N10 postal district and mostly in the Hornsey and Wood Green parliamentary constituency.- History :The...
, North London. He has been in a relationship since 1990 with his childhood sweetheart
Childhood sweetheart
Childhood sweetheart is a reciprocating phrase for a relationship between young persons, traditionally of the opposite sex occurring in their formative years...
and business partner, actress/writer and film producer Dina Clarkin - the daughter of Irish actor Tony Clarkin
Tony Clarkin (actor)
Tony Clarkin is a Stage, Television, Film, Radio and Voice Actor. He is the father of Actress/Writer and Film Producer Dina Clarkin and father-in-law of Actor Todd Carty. Clarkin has two grandchildren, James Carty and Thomas Carty....
. The couple have known each other since childhood through their parents, and have two sons, James and Thomas. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, Carty explained how he first met Clarkin when she was a 5-year-old child actress and he a 14-year-old, through their parents. Carty describes Dina as his soul mate.
Early career
His first television appearance in the UK was in an advertisement for Woolworths at the age of four. He also had other advertising roles, including one with Doctor WhoDoctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
actor Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
for the "Green Cross Code
Green Cross Code
The Green Cross Code is a brand created by the UK National Road Safety Committee to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the UK...
".
He made his first stage appearance at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, as the young Lionel in Lionel Bart
Lionel Bart
Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!-Early life:...
's autobiographical musical Lionel
Lionel
Lionel may refer to:as a male given name*Lionel Atwill, English actor*Lionel Barrymore, American actor*Lionel Bart, British composer*Lionel Blair, British dancer and actor*Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician*Lionel Jeffries, English actor...
; however, his television career in his youth was mostly defined by his role as Tucker Jenkins in Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond CBE is an English television producer and screenwriter.He is well-known for creating several popular television series such as Grange Hill , Brookside and Hollyoaks...
's popular BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
drama Grange Hill
Grange Hill
Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
(1978–1982), and the subsequent spin off series Tucker's Luck
Tucker's Luck
Tucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985.The series is a spin-off from the school drama Grange Hill and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters — Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty.Tucker's Luck followed the...
(1983–1985).
During the 1970s and 1980s, Carty also appeared in Z-Cars
Z-Cars
Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
(1976), Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but is also about human...
, Drummer, and Headmaster, all for the BBC. And for German TV, Focus on Britain and The Idle Bunch. His film work at the time included Please Sir!
Please Sir! (film)
Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film starring John Alderton, spun off from the television series Please Sir!.-Cast:* John Alderton as Bernard Hedges* Deryck Guyler as Norman Potter* Noel Howlett as Maurice Cromwell...
(1971) and Professor Popper's Problem
Professor Popper's Problem
Professor Popper's Problem was a film made in 1974 turned into a 6 part serial by Mersey Film Production for the Children's Film Foundation.-Plot:...
(1974). In 1983, he landed the role of Oswyn in the fantasy film Krull
Krull (film)
Krull is a 1983 heroic fantasy film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Ron Silverman. Released by Columbia Pictures, it stars Ken Marshall as Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony as Princess Lyssa....
opposite Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anthony is an English film, television, and theatre actress.-Early life:Anthony was born Lysette Chodzko in Fulham, London, the only daughter of actors Michael Anthony, and Bernadette Milnes....
, Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...
, and Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong (actor)
Alun Armstrong is a prolific British character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of...
, amongst others.
EastEnders and The Bill
Carty took over the role of original character Mark FowlerMark Fowler
Mark Albert Fowler is a fictional character from the popular British BBC soap opera EastEnders. Mark was an original regular character in the series starting February 1985 but became a semi-regular after his original portrayer David Scarboro was written out of the role in April 1985. Scarboro made...
in BBC's EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
in 1990, following the death of the original actor, David Scarboro
David Scarboro
David Timothy Scarboro was a British actor who was best known for portraying Mark Fowler in the popular British soap opera EastEnders.-Early career:...
. Carty played the role for 13 years, becoming one of the longest-running male cast-members. In July 2002, the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
announced that Mark Fowler was being written out of the serial, a mutual decision between the producers and Carty. Executive producer Louise Berridge
Louise Berridge
Louise Berridge is a British writer of historical fiction. Before she became a novelist, she was best known as a television producer and script editor. The most famous post being the executive producer of BBC's EastEnders between 2002 and 2004...
said that Carty had made a "fantastic contribution" to the soap and Mark had been a "pivotal figure", but the character had finally run its course: "Todd and I have discussed this at some length and agreed that it was time for Mark to hang up his leather jacket for the last time. We will all miss Todd, who is one of our best-loved actors, and wish him every success in the future." Carty made his final appearance as Mark in February 2003, riding out of the Square on his motorbike. The character subsequently died off-screen in 2004.
After leaving EastEnders in 2003, Carty went on to play "villain evil copper", PC Gabriel Kent
Gabriel Kent
Gabriel Kent is a fictional character in The Bill. He was played by Todd Carty from 2003 to 2005.-Personal life and background:PC Gabriel Kent was the most corrupt and deranged police officers ever to work at Sun Hill....
, in ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
for more than two years from 2003 to 2005. Carty has since revealed that he broke his EastEnders contract a year earlier than planned to take on this new role.
Other television and film appearances
Whilst still in EastEnders in 1997, Carty appeared with former EastEnders co-star Nick BerryNick Berry
Nicholas "Nick" Berry is a British television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1990 and as PC Nick Rowan in the British drama television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 1998.-Career:Berry started acting at the age of...
in the Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
period adventure film The Black Velvet Band, a spaghetti western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
-style drama. Carty was the subject of a This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience including friends and family.Edwards...
tribute in 2000. Guests included Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard, MBE was an English actress best known for playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders...
, Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...
, Nick Berry
Nick Berry
Nicholas "Nick" Berry is a British television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1990 and as PC Nick Rowan in the British drama television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 1998.-Career:Berry started acting at the age of...
, his partner Dina Clarkin, sons James Carty and Thomas Carty, and his father-in-law, actor Tony Clarkin
Tony Clarkin (actor)
Tony Clarkin is a Stage, Television, Film, Radio and Voice Actor. He is the father of Actress/Writer and Film Producer Dina Clarkin and father-in-law of Actor Todd Carty. Clarkin has two grandchildren, James Carty and Thomas Carty....
.
After leaving The Bill in 2005, he returned to the big screen as the aristocrat Harvey Van Bollingbroke in the movie Treasure of Albion (2006). Carty acted in The School That Roared (2009) as the eccentric Mr. Haig, for which he was also second-unit director.
He has guest-starred as Ray Hallam in the Christmas special of the TV series Heartbeat, and in BBC's Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
, as villain Cameron Cooke. In 2008, he guest-starred in BBC's Doctors
Doctors (BBC Soap Opera)
Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
, playing the part of Kev Blake.
In 2003, Carty reprised the role of Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill, as the uncle of one the pupils, Patrick "Togger" Johnson. He appeared in just this one episode, but he was brought back once again to film for Grange Hill's final series, broadcast in 2008 — a one-off special episode to celebrate the 30th birthday of the long-running BBC TV show. Carty appeared as Tucker in the final televised episode of Grange Hill, which was screened on Monday, 15 September 2008 on BBC1.
Carty was a guest on the BBC1 show I'd Do Anything
I'd Do Anything (BBC TV series)
I'd Do Anything is a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom and broadcast on BBC One. It premièred on 15 March 2008...
, in May 2008, with Cameron Mackintosh
Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York...
, helping to choose one of the selected boys to play Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
for the new West End production of Oliver!
Oliver!
Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
.
Carty and his eldest son, James, filmed together in a factual television series for Five, "Dangerous Adventures For Boys", based on the book written by Conn
Conn Iggulden
Conn Iggulden is a British author who mainly writes historical fiction. He also co-authored The Dangerous Book for Boys.-Background:...
and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys
The Dangerous Book for Boys
The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn and Hal Iggulden, is a guidebook published by HarperCollins, aimed at boys "from eight to eighty." It covers around eighty topics, including how to build a treehouse, grow a crystal, or tell direction with a watch...
. James Carty, aged 11 at the time of broadcast, became the youngest person to drive a steam train across the North York Moors
North York Moors
The North York Moors is a national park in North Yorkshire, England. The moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. It covers an area of , and it has a population of about 25,000...
18-mile line from Grosmont, North Yorkshire to Pickering
Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. It sits at the foot of the Moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south...
, built in the 1830s.
Dancing On Ice
Carty appeared in the fourth seriesDancing on Ice (Series 4)
The fourth series of Dancing on Ice began on ITV on Sunday 11 January 2009. The series features legendary skaters Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill, presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and judges Karen Barber, Nicky Slater, Jason Gardiner, Ruthie Henshall and Robin Cousins.The...
of the UK version of Dancing On Ice
Dancing on Ice (UK)
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
, which began on 10 January 2009. Carty partnered professional skater Susie Lipanova
Susie Lipanova
Susie Lipanova on 6 June 1974, is a British ice skater from South Shields, South Tyneside, England.-Early life:Lipanova spent her early years skating at ice rinks in Sunderland and Whitley Bay. She competed in the British Junior Championships in 1990 and came 2nd...
and was heavily criticised by the judging panel for his apparent lack of skating ability. In the weeks he and Lipanova competed, they finished bottom of the leaderboard, scoring 7.5 in their first week, 9.5 for their next appearance in week three, and 7.5 and 8.5 for weeks four and five respectively. During the routine in week three, Carty lost control on the ice so badly that he ended up stumbling into the off-stage area, disappearing from public view, leaving Lipanova to complete the routine alone. Despite this, the public vote carried the couple through to the next round. He was eliminated in the 5th round.
Radio, presenting and stage
Carty's radio work includes such dramas as Les MisérablesLes Misérables
Les Misérables , translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century...
; The Three Loves of Ida Bliss, We Are Happy, Wavelength, Midweek, Jellybones, The London Particulars, and The Chocolate Frigate. Narration work includes Paddington Green, the story of New York subway's Guardian Angels Scene in New York, The Fame Game,
Driving Mum Crazy, Snapshot-Eddie Kidd, The Jungle Creatures, and many more. In 1989, Carty reprised the role of Tucker in the musical stage version of the television series Grange Hill: Grange Hill: Tucker's Return, at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
Hornchurch
Hornchurch is a large suburban town in England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. Hornchurch is in North-East London .It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan. It comprises a number of shopping...
. Between 2007 and 2008, he toured the UK in The Business of Murder as Police Detective Hallett. Todd Carty and Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard, MBE was an English actress best known for playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders...
(who played his screen mother Pauline
Pauline Fowler
Pauline Fowler is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional London borough of Walford. She was played by actress Wendy Richard between 1985 and 2006. Pauline was created by scriptwriter Tony Holland and producer...
in EastEnders) presented "50 Greatest Families" on Sky One
Sky One
Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...
in March 2008.
Todd Carty stars as Patsy
Patsy (Monty Python)
Patsy is a character in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail and the musical Spamalot. He is played by Terry Gilliam in Monty Python and The Holy Grail...
, from May 2010, in the Monty Python
Monty Python
Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
touring production of Spamalot
Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...
.
Pantomimes
Carty has played Ali Baba in the BBC Christmas pantomime AladdinAladdin
Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
, and starred as Buttons in Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
at the Gatehouse Theatre Stafford
Stafford
Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies approximately north of Wolverhampton and south of Stoke-on-Trent, adjacent to the M6 motorway Junction 13 to Junction 14...
from 14 December 1993 to 2 January 1994. He later starred with Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....
as the captain's mate in Dick Whittington at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford
Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. It is situated in the northwest corner of Kent, England, east south-east of central London....
.
He also appeared as "King Rat" with Basil Brush
Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a fictional anthropomorphic fox raconteur, best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television. He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips...
in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Wycombe Swan Theatre between 2005 and 2006.
He reprised the role of King Rat in a new version of Dick Whittington, at the Capitol Theatre, Horsham
Horsham
Horsham is a market town with a population of 55,657 on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, West Sussex, in the historic County of Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester...
, which ran from 13 December 2007 to 6 January 2008. In December 2008, Carty starred as the evil Ferdinand Fleshcreep (The Giant's Evil Assistant) in Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions...
at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple
Barnstaple
Barnstaple is a town and civil parish in the local government district of North Devon in the county of Devon, England, UK. It lies west southwest of Bristol, north of Plymouth and northwest of the county town of Exeter. The old spelling Barnstable is now obsolete.It is the main town of the...
. The show ran from Friday 12 December 2008 to Sunday, 4 January 2009. Todd Carty starred as Buttons in Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
at the Pavilion Theatre
Pavilion Theatre
Pavilion Theatre may refer to:*Pavilion Theatre , Scotland*Pavilion Theatre , part of the Bournemouth International Centre complex*Pavilion Theatre , southern England...
Worthing
Worthing
Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester...
from 10 December 2009 to 3 January 2010.
Directing and producing
Carty and his partner, actress/writer and film producer Dina Clarkin have set up a film production company, Swordfish Productions. In July 2007, Carty made his directorial debut as director of several episodes of the BBC's daytime soap opera, DoctorsDoctors (BBC Soap Opera)
Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
. Carty is directing his first feature film, The Perfect Burger
The Perfect Burger
The Perfect Burger is the 2010 directorial debut feature film from former Grange Hill and Eastenders actor Todd Carty.The film stars Richard Brimblecombe, Duncan Meadows, Pauline Quirke and Joanna Bobin.-External links:* at The Leicester Mercury...
(2010), set in the Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
town of Hinckley
Hinckley
Hinckley is a town in southwest Leicestershire, England. It has a population of 43,246 . It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council...
. The film is mainly being shot at the Hinckley campus of North Warwickshire and Hinckley College.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Please Sir! Please Sir! Please Sir! was a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies... |
Boy in assembly wishing to be excused | Uncredited |
| 1983 | Krull Krull (film) Krull is a 1983 heroic fantasy film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Ron Silverman. Released by Columbia Pictures, it stars Ken Marshall as Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony as Princess Lyssa.... |
Oswyn | |
| 1989 | The Candy Show | Short film | |
| 2006 | Treasure of Albion | Harvey Van Bolingbroke | |
| 2009 | The School That Roared | Mr Haig | |
TV
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Z-Cars Z-Cars Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by... |
Billy | 1 episode: Ringers |
| 1977 | Headmaster | 1 episode: The Public Image | |
| 1978–82 | Grange Hill Grange Hill Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television... |
Peter "Tucker" Jenkins | Series regular |
| 1983–85 | Tucker's Luck Tucker's Luck Tucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985.The series is a spin-off from the school drama Grange Hill and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters — Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty.Tucker's Luck followed the... |
Series regular | |
| 1990–2003 | EastEnders EastEnders EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End... |
Mark Fowler Mark Fowler Mark Albert Fowler is a fictional character from the popular British BBC soap opera EastEnders. Mark was an original regular character in the series starting February 1985 but became a semi-regular after his original portrayer David Scarboro was written out of the role in April 1985. Scarboro made... |
Series regular |
| 1997 | Black Velvet Band | Pentecost | |
| 2003 | Grange Hill Grange Hill Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television... |
Peter "Tucker" Jenkins | 1 episode |
| 2003–05 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
PC Gabriel Kent Gabriel Kent Gabriel Kent is a fictional character in The Bill. He was played by Todd Carty from 2003 to 2005.-Personal life and background:PC Gabriel Kent was the most corrupt and deranged police officers ever to work at Sun Hill.... |
Series regular |
| 2005 | Heartbeat | Ray Hallam | 1 episode: Auld Acquaintance |
| 2006 | Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Cameron Cooke | 1 episode: Games of Chance |
| 2008 | Doctors | Kev Blake | 1 episode: Stand Up and Be Counted |
| Grange Hill Grange Hill Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television... |
Peter "Tucker" Jenkins | 1 episode: Bang | |
| 2010 | Blame | My Keller | |