David Bower is a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 actor

Actor

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, best known for his role as David in the hit romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...

 Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

. Born in Wrexham

Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...

, North Wales

North Wales

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, he is deaf and took his degree in the Theatre of the Deaf. After university he joined what became the Signdance Collective working as sign dancer and choreographer. The collective was re-established in 2001 with David as Artistic Director and Isolte Avila as Dance Director.
In addition to film and TV, he has also performed in radio plays for the BBC

BBC

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Film and television

Year	Title	Format	Role	Notes
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...	Film	David
1996	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a genteel British crime–comedy drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on BBC One. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character , Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, Dominic Monaghan as their lodger Geoffrey Shawcross...	Television series	Malcolm Stone	Episode: Eye Witness
1998	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...	Television series	Kevin Healy	Episode: It's Good to Talk
2011	Little Voices Little Voices (film) Little Voices is an unreleased film written by Screen Academy Wales students which addresses the isolation of deafness. The film stars Welsh-born deaf actor David Bower, best known for his role as David in Four Weddings and a Funeral. The Wrexham-born actor plays the lead character Quint, in a tale...	Film	Quint

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Quasimodo Quasimodo Quasimodo is a fictional character in the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by...	A collaboration between BBC Radio 4 and the Graeae Theatre Company Graeae Theatre Company Graeae Theatre Company is a British organisation composed of artists and managers with physical and sensory disabilities. It was founded in 1980 by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson and named after the Graeae of Greek mythology... .
2010	A Small Piece of Silence	Joe	Afternoon Play for BBC Radio 4.
2010	Dragonfly	Cal	Afternoon Play for BBC Radio 4.

External links

• Four Weddings and a Funeral at Disability Films
• Signdance Collective David Bower's U.K based Company