Aidan J. David is a British actor, best known for playing James Arnold (Arnie) in the BBC school drama Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

. He appeared in the show from 1994 to 2001.

Arnie, who came from an affluent background, was one of the show's most popular characters during the 1990s, and in 2000 the previously healthy character had to come to terms with epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...

. In a first for Grange Hill, Arnie was brought back for an extra year in 2001 along with classmate Colin Brown (Colin Ridgewell). Previously, no pupils had ever stayed in the show longer than seven consecutive series.

Aidan has since appeared in The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

and Rose and Maloney

Rose and Maloney

Rose and Maloney is a British television crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire and Phil Davis as Rose Linden and Maloney, two investigators working for the fictional Criminal Justice Review Agency. This agency takes on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to...

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