David Schaal

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   David Schaal born 27 May 1963 in Albuquerque New Mexico is an English actor best known for playing the roles of Taffy in The Office and Terry Cartwright in The Inbetweeners Schaal studied Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama 19851988 and has worked in television film and theatre His television credits include Missing Casualty The Wrong Door Beautiful People Hancock and Joan Ashes To Ashes The IT Crowd Deceit Doc Martin Peak Practice Silent Witness and Dangerfield His film credits include Kidulthood Mr Nobody Clubbed and Dirty Weekend Schaal also appeared as Norm Shirley Carters seedy landlord in EastEnders and played troubled father Tom Hargreaves in Grange Hill Other notable credits include playing DS Bevan in Paul Greengrass The Murder of Stephen Lawrence playing opposite William Baldwin in the film Relative Values and appearing in Philip Davis English football hooligan film ID Schaal also played Eric in Ben Wheatleys domestic British gangster film Down Terrace Schaal wrote the short films Poppys Present directed by Chris Jury and Half Time directed by Duncan Roe He also cowrote the play Reality Chokes and appeared in it as Rob in London and directed a production of the play at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010  Other writing credits include the plays Shame No Hiding Place The Legacy of Colonel Ash and Baby Blue Description above from the Wikipedia article David Schaal  licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia