Maurice Roëves

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Maurice Roëves is a Scottish actor born in Sunderland County Durham now Tyne and Wear on 19 March 1937 His television roles include Danger UXB 1979 The Nightmare Man 1981 the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani Days of our Lives 1986 Tutti Frutti 1987 Rab C Nesbitt 1990 The New Statesman 1990 Spender 1991 Star Trek The Next Generation the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair 1998 and EastEnders 2003 He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semifinal in the Liverpool FC game where a crush blame on loss of police control led to the deaths of 96 fans In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotlands drama River City His film roles include Oh What a Lovely War Ulysses Hidden Agenda the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans the Judge Dredd movie 1995 and Beautiful Creatures 2000 In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomass film Solid Air Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia