David Killick

David Killick

Acting
1938-01-01
North London, England, UK

Biography

David Killick (1938–2025) was a distinguished British stage and television actor whose career spanned over 60 years. He was best known for his recurring role as a pathologist in the long-running crime drama A Touch of Frost and for his appearance in season five of The Crown as a Mess President.

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1The Crown

Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes as Mess President

8.2 / 10
Drama

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

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#2Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as DC Harney

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#3A Touch of Frost

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Pathologist

7.5 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

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#4Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes as Judge Brimble

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

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#5Unnatural Causes

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Dennis

6.3 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology of seven psychological dramas, each with a different cast and crew, exploring deaths in unusual circumstances.

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#6Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Lamerton

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#7A Bridge Too Far

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Soldier

7.2 / 10
DramaHistoryWar

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

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#8Terry and June

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Usher

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Middle-aged Terry and June Medford are beginning to find the trials of life more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley, south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird have disappeared, as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with friendly next door neighbour Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague, Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise, things were much as before, with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems, usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life.

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#9Worlds Beyond

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as SPR Librarian

5.8 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.

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#10The Grotesque

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Sir Humphrey Stoker

5.4 / 10
ComedyDramaHorror

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?

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#11Home Cooking

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Dennis

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.

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#12The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Lane

9.0 / 10
HistoryComedyRomance

National treasure and Poirot star David Suchet starred as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. Directed by Adrian Noble, (Amadeus, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language. Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff (Philip Cumbus – regular player at Shakespeare’s Globe) and the utterly reliable John Worthing J.P., (Downton Abbey’s Michael Benz) lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax (Emily Barber) and Cecily Cardew (Imogen Doel). The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.

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#13Death of a Son

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Clerk of the Court

5.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.

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