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Steven Berkoff New Tricks 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.

New Tricks

 

Steven Berkoff Hotel Babylon 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.

 Hotel Babylon Berkoff

 

  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.

Alive

 

By the pricking of my thumbs agatha christie 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.

Steven Berkoff  in Marples By the Pricking of my Thumbs

 

It's a Boy 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.

Steven Berkoff as the voice of King Herod

The advert says "Some quails only dream... others dare to believe".

 

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World 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.

Steven Berkoff in Seven Wonders

 

Dune 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.

Children of Dune Steven Berkoff

 

  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.

 

 

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