David Neilson

David Neilson

David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying cafe owner Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. In a break from the show in 2016, Neilson starred in a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Home in Manchester. Prior to taking up the role of Roy Cropper, Neilson appeared in several TV shows including Boys from The Blackstuff, Resnick, Secret Army, Once Upon a Time in the North, Blue Heaven, Bergerac, Casualty and EastEnders, and in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies.

  • Title: David Neilson
  • Popularity: 8.091
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1949-03-13
  • Place of Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
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David Neilson Movies

  • 2009
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    Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
    Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday

    5.8 2009 HD

    What could be better? A footballer's wedding, a week in the sun, a luxury villa in historic Transylvania. It’s the trip of a lifetime for...

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  • 1981
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    Sons and Lovers
    Sons and Lovers

    1 1981 HD

    An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

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  • 1993
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    Resnick: Rough Treatment
    Resnick: Rough Treatment

    1 1993 HD

    A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was...

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  • 1992
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    Resnick: Lonely Hearts
    Resnick: Lonely Hearts

    1 1992 HD

    Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city....

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  • 1990
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    Life Is Sweet
    Life Is Sweet

    7 1990 HD

    Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts...

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  • 1996
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    Secrets & Lies
    Secrets & Lies

    7.552 1996 HD

    After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

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  • 1986
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    Knights & Emeralds
    Knights & Emeralds

    6 1986 HD

    A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer...

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  • 2020
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    Majority
    Majority

    1 2020 HD

    Single mother and immigrant Sonia Diaconescu works at a sheltered accommodation scheme. A resident of the scheme has made an official complaint...

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  • 1978
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    Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
    Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

    1 1978 HD

    One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.

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  • 2024
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    A Scottish Love Scheme
    A Scottish Love Scheme

    7.7 2024 HD

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  • 1960
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    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street

    5.3 1960 HD

    The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at...

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  • 1992
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    Blue Heaven
    Blue Heaven

    3 1992 HD

    Frank Sandford has big hopes for his pop duo, Blue Heaven, but his home life is less than satisfactory. His father, Jim, is a local hard man whose...

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  • 1977
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    Secret Army
    Secret Army

    7.6 1977 HD

    World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat
    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1982
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    Boys from the Blackstuff
    Boys from the Blackstuff

    7.8 1982 HD

    Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac
    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1994
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    Once Upon A Time In The North
    Once Upon A Time In The North

    1 1994 HD

    Whimsical tales of the Tollit family, who live in the picturesque Northern town of Sutton Moor. The husband, Len, is a soft-hearted, well-meaning...

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