stevenberkoff
dancestartrekandwittgenstein: later 2000s tv
![]() |
New Tricks 2006 |
| A police informant comes back to
town after 18 years, and an old case is reopened.
Berkoff is the guest star playing Ray Cook, a best
selling author (his book is titled Hardest Geezer in
Town) who talks in cockney rhyming slang. Is he the
actual criminal? Berkoff does his standard
working-class-henchman-made-good-through-crime
role. Series 3 episode 6.
|
|
![]() |
Hotel Babylon 2006 |
| The BBC series about the problems
in a five star hotel. Berkoff is to testify against
gangsters so is kept in the hotel under guard by the
police. A hit-man comes after him. The writer
is Tony Basgallop. Series 1 episode 8.
Predictable but fun.
|
|
| Alive: Back to the Andes 2006 | |
| A Channel 5 documentary with
Berkoff the voice narrator. The three part
documentary recreates the journey of survivors after the
Andes plane crash.
|
|
| |
By the Pricking of my Thumbs 2006 |
| Part of an Agatha Christie Miss
Marples series. Berkoff plays Freddie Eccles.
The script is by Stewart Harcourt and the director is
Peter Medak. Berkoff worked with Medak on The Krays
previously. Geraldine McEwan plays Miss Marple and
the cast also includes Claire Bloom and Charles Dance.
|
|
![]() |
It's a Boy 2005 |
| A cartoon film made by a Christian
charity to tell the story of Jesus to
schoolchildren. It was sent free to 26000
schools in Britain. The
director is Julian Tewkesbury and screenplay is by Alexa
Tewkesbury. The film is 30 minutes long and cost
£200,000. The bible
story is told by three birds (quails). Berkoff does
the voice for King Herod. The advert says "Some quails only dream... others dare to believe".
|
|
![]() |
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World 2003 |
| A dramatised documentary series,
Berkoff appears in the episode about the Brooklyn Bridge
as John A. Roeblinh, the architect and man behind the
bridge. But just as building was about to start, he
died, and his son continued the work. Berkoff used
the knowledge he gained from doing the documentary to
update his play Sit and Shiver, where one character talks
of the building of the bridge.
|
|
![]() |
Children of Dune 2003 |
Berkoff plays Stilgar in the six hour television mini-series based on Frank Herbert's Dune novels. Filming was in Prague. Directed by Greg Yaitanes.
|
|
| Broken Morning 2003 | |
A dramatised documentary with Ciarán Hinds as Albert Camus. Catherine McCormack, Freddie Jones and Struan Rodger appear alongside Berkoff playing the mayor. Directed by Jack Bond.
|
click arrows for more pages