Reece Dinsdale

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name = Reece Dinsdale


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yearsactive = 1982–Present
spouse = Zara Turner

Reece Dinsdale (born 6 August 1959 in Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England) is a British film, stage, and television actor.

He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1977 until 1980. This eventually led to him being cast as Albert in the "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" series, making his first appearance in the episode "The Secret Adversary" in 1982. He continued in that role for two years. In 1984 director Barry Hines cast him in his powerful nuclear war docudrama "Threads", as Jimmy Kemp, a-soon-to-be-father and husband to Karen Meagher's Ruth Beckett, who is killed after a nuclear attack on Sheffield, England. Interestingly, that same year Dinsdale would also star in the Cold War drama "Winter Flight", in which he played a shy, introverted Royal Air Force man who falls in love with a feisty barmaid. 1984 also saw Dinsdale appearing in one of his first feature films, the Maggie Smith comedy, "A Private Function".

Dinsdale's largest role to date, however, came in 1985 as Matthew Willows when he co-starred with John Thaw in the British sitcom "Home To Roost". Dinsdale played Thaw's unruly teen-aged son Matthew who comes to live with his estranged father after his mother put him out of the house. The core of the show's comedy came from constant clashing between Henry Willows (Thaw's character), who resents his son for imposing on his bachelor solitude, and Matthew's adolescent antics which clash with his father's conservatism. The show ran for four series between 1985 and 1990.

Dinsdale co-starred in many British television shows and mini-series in the 1990s. From 1990-1992 he co-starred in "Haggard", a comedy set in the late 1700s. In 1995 he starred in the mini-series "Bliss", and more recently he has co-starred in the British series "Born and Bred", "The Chase", and "Dalziel and Pascoe". Film roles have included 1995s "I.D.", 1996s "Hamlet", and 1998s "So This Is Romance".

In 2008 Dinsdale was set to join long running soap Coronation Street as father of character Tina McIntyre. [http://www.corrieblog.tv/2008/04/tina_mcintyres.html]

Privately Dinsdale resides with his wife, British actress Zara Turner, in Yorkshire England. The couple have two children, a daughter Elwy, and a son Luca. Dinsdale is also a great supporter of Huddersfield Town Football Club. He presented the video 'Beyond the Touchline' that went behind the scenes at Huddersfield's former Leeds Road ground.

Television roles

Comedy

Drama

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