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Kevin Whately

Kevin Whately is an English actor known for his starring role as Neville Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his role as Dr Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, and as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse and Lewis.
Whately is from Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland.[2] His mother, Mary (née Pickering-, was a teacher and his father, Richard, was a Commander in the Royal Navy.His maternal grandmother, Doris Phillips,was a professional concert singer and his great-great-grandfather, Richard Whately, was Anglican Archbishop of Dublin. The BBC documentary Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 2 March 2009, also revealed that Whately is a descendant, on his paternal side, of Thomas Whately of Nonsuch Park, a leading London merchant, English politician and writer who became a director of the Bank of England, and of Major Robert Thompson, a pioneer tobacco plantation owner in Virginia who was a staunch supporter of the Parliamentarian cause at the time of the English Commonwealth.

Whately was educated at Barnard Castle School,and studied drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His brother, Frank, is a drama lecturer at a London university. Before going professional, Kevin was an amateur actor at the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1970s

Before turning to professional acting Whately began his working life as a folk singer, and still plays guitar, performing for charity concerts:Along with other Auf Wiedersehen, Pet stars, he makes an appearance at the biennial benefit concert Sunday for Sammy in Newcastle. Before becoming an actor, he started training as an accountant.

His acting career includes several stage plays, among them an adaptation of Twelve Angry Men and film appearances in The Return of the Soldier, The English Patient, Paranoid and Purely Belter.

Whately's television appearances include episodes of Shoestring, Angels, Juliet Bravo, Strangers, Coronation Street, Shackleton, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Marple, Inspector Morse, Alas Smith and Jones, Look and Read, You Must Be The Husband, B&B, Peak Practice, Skallagrigg, The Broker's Man, Murder in Mind, 2003 Comic Relief Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Lewis, New Tricks, Who Gets the Dog?, The Children and Silent Cry (film). Whately provided one of the voices for the English language version of the 1999 claymation Children's television series Hilltop Hospital. He has also appeared in an advert for Water Aid doing a voice over.

Perhaps his most memorable television appearances were as Detective Sergeant Lewis, the down-to-earth complement to the snobbishly intellectual Inspector Morse. He reprised the role in the spin-off series Lewis, in which Lewis returns to Oxford as full Inspector. With his new partner, the Cambridge-educated Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox), Inspector Lewis solves murder mysteries while trying to rebuild his life after his wife's sudden passing, and gain recognition from his sceptical new boss.

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The Inheritance (2023)
Starring as Michael (3 episodes)
Robson Green's Weekend Escapes (2023)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately
Island Medics (2017)
Starring as Narrator (10 episodes)
Porridge: Inside Out (2014)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately (2 episodes)
The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track (2013)
Starring as Narrator (6 episodes)
Britain's Secret Treasures (2012)
Guest starring as Actor
Inspector George Gently (2008)
Guest starring as Donald McGhee
Lewis (2006)
Starring as DI Robert Lewis (42 episodes)
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately
New Tricks (2004)
Guest starring as Andrew Simson
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately (3 episodes)
Lads Army (2002)
Starring as Narrator (10 episodes)
Murder in Mind (2001)
Guest starring as Nigel Liddy
Midsomer Murders (1998)
Guest starring as Jeremy Whittingdale
Peak Practice (1993)
Starring as Dr. Jack Kerruish (12 episodes)
Inspector Morse (1987)
Starring as Detective Sergeant Lewis (33 episodes)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately
Comic Relief (1986)
Guest starring as Kevin Whately
Miss Marple (1984)
Guest starring as Detective Sergeant Fletcher (3 episodes)
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983)
Starring as Neville Hope (40 episodes)
Juliet Bravo (1980)
Guest starring as PC Chris Evans
Shoestring (1979)
Guest starring as Bobby Treen
Strangers (1978)
Guest starring as Michael Hobb
Angels (1975)
Guest starring as Norman Pollard (3 episodes)
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