David Fleeshman

Biography

David Fleeshman (born 11 July 1952) is a British actor, broadcaster, drama lecturer and theatre director with experience in film, radio, television, theatre and commercials. Fleeshman was born on 11 July 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Rosina and William Fleeshman. His family was Jewish. He trained at The Birmingham Theatre School making his stage debut was in 1973 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1974 he took a position as actor/assistant stage manager at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and has also been an associate director of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre. In 1978 he married actress Sue Jenkins, who played Gloria Todd on Coronation Street, 1985–1988, and Jackie Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, 1991–2001. They have three children all currently working in the acting profession: Emily Fleeshman, Richard Fleeshman and Rosie Fleeshman. Fleeshman has appeared in and directed numerous plays around the UK and abroad, including Arthur Miller's The Price, for which he won best actor in a supporting role at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards in 2005. As a theatre director, he directed the European premiere of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and the regional premi…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) — Man on Station
2. Disobedience (2018) — Yosef Kirschbaum
3. The Storyteller (1988) — Innkeeper
4. It's a Sin (2021) — Husband
5. North & South (2004) — Landlord
6. All Creatures Great & Small (2020) — Mr Soames
7. Spooks (2002) — Malcolm Stackley
8. Unstoppable (2004) — St. Nevis Guard 2
9. Accused (2010) — Judge
10. Edge of Darkness (1985) — Jones
11. Bad Girls (1999) — DI Harwell
12. National Treasure (2016) — Judge
13. Heartbeat (1992) — Laski
14. A Very British Christmas (2019) — Station Guard
15. The Teacher (2022) — Roger
16. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) — Pedro Pedley
17. Highlander: The Raven (1998) — Harry
18. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996) — Immigration Officer
19. Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) — D.O.E Assistant Manager
20. Trial & Retribution (1997) — Willis Fletcher
21. The Last Detective (2003) — George Williams
22. A Bit of a Do (1989)
23. The Jim Henson Hour (1989) — Innkeeper (archive footage)
24. Believe Nothing (2002) — Edmund Bilyas
25. The Royal (2003) — Don Waite
26. Christmas Lights (2004) — Margolis
27. The Falklands Play (2002) — Denis Healey MP (Labour)
28. The Cater Street Hangman (1998) — Renshaw
29. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2001) — Campeggio
30. The XYY Man (1976) — Newscaster
31. Strangers (1978) — CID Man
32. An Audience with... (1978) — Self
33. The Nature of the Beast (1988) — Jim Dalton
34. In Suspicious Circumstances (1991) — Thomas Buss
35. Grownups (2006) — Dad
36. Realm of Darkness - Caves of Glass (1986) — Narrator
37. Mother, Mine (2008) — Graham
38. The Luddites (1988) — Enoch Taylor
39. The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death (1988) — Innkeeper
40. The Innocence Project (2006)