David Haig

Known for: Acting

Born: 1955-09-20 (age 70)

From: Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having played dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.

Filmography (61)

TV★ 7.1
Étoile
2025
as Nicholas
TV★ 5.9
COBRA
2020
as Archie Glover-Morgan
MOVIE★ 7.1
Downton Abbey
2019
as Mr Wilson
MOVIE★ 7.0
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
as Bernard
TV★ 7.9
Killing Eve
2018
as Bill
MOVIE★ 6.3
National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
2017
as The Player
TV★ 7.4
Urban Myths
2017
as George Frideric Handel
TV★ 7.0
The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
as Sir Charles Carter
MOVIE★ 6.0
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
as Carlo Edwards
TV★ 7.8
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Oscar Putney
TV★ 5.2
The Wright Way
2013
as Gerald Wright
TV★ 5.7
Yes, Prime Minister
2013
as Prime Minister Jim Hacker
TV
The Michael Ball Show
2010
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.7
Mo
2010
as Jon Norton
MOVIE★ 6.5
The 39 Steps
2008
as Sir George Sinclair
MOVIE★ 6.1
Dustbin Baby
2008
as Elliot
MOVIE
Dickens' Secret Lover
2008
as Charles Dickens
MOVIE★ 6.6
My Boy Jack
2007
as Rudyard Kipling
MOVIE★ 7.1
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007
as Bride's Father
MOVIE★ 4.6
A for Andromeda
2006
as General Vandenberg
TV★ 8.1
The Thick of It
2005
as Steve Fleming
TV★ 7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Major Hugh Horton
TV★ 7.7
Hustle
2004
as Sir Anthony Reeves
MOVIE★ 5.0
Timequest
2003
as Clint Hill
MOVIE★ 6.4
Two Weeks Notice
2002
as Howard Wade
MOVIE★ 6.7
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Luzhin
MOVIE★ 7.5
Station Jim
2001
as Riorden Jnr
MOVIE★ 7.0
Ivor the Invisible
2001
as Park Keeper (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999
as Col. Bonnet
MOVIE★ 8.5
Talking Heads 2
1998
TV
Keeping Mum
1997
as Richard Beare
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as George Jeffers
MOVIE★ 7.5
Never Mind the Horrocks
1996
TV★ 7.2
The Thin Blue Line
1995
as Detective Inspector Derek Grim
TV★ 9.0
Nice Day at the Office
1994
TV★ 6.8
Wycliffe
1994
as David Miller
TV★ 5.2
Love on a Branch Line
1994
as Lionel Virley
MOVIE★ 6.8
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
as Bernard the Groom - Wedding Two
TV★ 6.6
Cracker
1993
as Graham
TV★ 6.9
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Major Tom Cadman
TV★ 7.9
The Darling Buds of May
1991
as Captain Robert Battersby
TV★ 6.0
Portrait of a Marriage
1990
as Harold Nicolson
TV★ 6.3
Chancer
1990
as Dr. Haselden
TV★ 6.3
Campion
1989
as Cully Randall
TV★ 6.7
Talking Heads
1988
as Wilfred Paterson
TV★ 6.5
Hannay
1988
TV★ 7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
as Peter Rhodes
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Cold War Killers
1986
as Colin Jenkins
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Alamut Ambush
1986
as Colin Jenkins
MOVIE★ 4.9
Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Palatial House Flunkey
MOVIE★ 4.8
Dark Enemy
1984
as Ash
MOVIE★ 8.0
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
as Mirek Grabinski
TV★ 6.5
Chessgame
1983
as Colin Jenkins
TV★ 7.3
Dramarama
1983
as Bill Brock
TV
Diamonds
1981
as Alex Randolph
MOVIE★ 7.0
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980
as Pangol
TV★ 7.0
The Moon Stallion
1978
as Todman
TV★ 7.3
Blake's 7
1978
as Forres
TV★ 7.9
Doctor Who
1963
as Pangol
MOVIE
Eloise
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