Paul Copley
Acting
Paul is a long established and much respected British actor and voiceover artist.
Born in Denby Dale, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 25th November 1944 he grew up beside a dairy farm. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family. He went to Penistone Grammar School, then the Northern Counties College of Education in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he received an Associate of the Drama Board (ADB) in Drama. He taught English and Drama in Walthamstow, before he joined the Leeds Playhouse Theatre-in-education Company in 1971.
In 1976, Paul…
Filmography
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Big Winners
2025
Play for Today
2025
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks
2025
Ticker
2023
DI Ray
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
The Infectious Imagination of Henry Bramble
2021
Enola Holmes
2020
Ropeless
2020
On the Edge
2018
Trust Me
2017
Broken
2017
Reg
2016
The Nest Egg
2016
The Sound of Music Live!
2015
The Coroner
2015
Code of a Killer
2015
The 12 Days of Christine
2015
Inside No. 9
2014
Father Brown
2013
Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork
2013
Last Tango in Halifax
2012
First Encounter: King Lear
2012
White Heat
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
Vera
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
Moving On
2009
Survivors
2008
Inspector George Gently
2008
The Shadow in the North
2007
Kingdom
2007
Torchwood
2006
The Street
2006
Johnny and the Bomb
2006
Life on Mars
2006
Marian, Again
2005
Dead Man Weds
2005
Shameless
2004
New Tricks
2004
The Key
2003
Burn It
2003
The Afternoon Play
2003
The Royal
2003
Hornblower: Duty
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
Nice Guy Eddie
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
Born and Bred
2002
The Many Lives of Albert Walker
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Messiah
2001
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
Blow Dry
2001
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
1999
Queer as Folk
1999
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1998
The Worst Witch
1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
Hornblower
1998
Written in Blood
1998
The Lakes
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
This Life
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Jude
1996
Roughnecks
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
The Remains of the Day
1993
Cracker
1993
Harry
Harry
1993
Peak Practice
1993
Heartbeat
1992
How's Business
How's Business
1991
Stay Lucky
1989
The Paradise Club
1989
Testimony of a Child
1989
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989