Keith Drinkel is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor

Actor

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, born in York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

 on 14 November 1944. He was educated at St Michael's College, Leeds and is now based in Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

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His notable appearances in film and television include A Family at War

A Family At War

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972. It was created by John Finch and made by Granada Television for ITV. The director was David Giles....

(1970), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Gandhi

Gandhi (film)

Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...

(1982) and the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

story Time-Flight

Time-Flight

Time-Flight is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 22 March to 30 March 1982...

(1982). He co-starred in series three and four of Peter Tinniswood

Peter Tinniswood

Peter Tinniswood was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels...

's long-running comedy I Didn't Know You Cared

I Didn't Know You Cared

I Didn't Know You Cared is a British television comedy set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood and loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn't Know You Cared and Except You're A Bird...

, and appeared as Mark Gaskell in the 1984 TV episode of Miss Marple

Miss Marple (TV series)

Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels have been dramatised. The screenplays were written by T. R...

entitled The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library (1984 TV film)

The Body in the Library is a 1984 television film adaption of Agatha Christie's 1942 detective novel The Body in the Library which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network. The film uses an adapted screenplay by T. R. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano...

. Drinkel has appeared twice in Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

, in 2001 and 2002 as Maurice Gregory, father of Rovers Return barmaid Geena, and most recently in 2005 as Bob, who dated Liz McDonald

Liz McDonald

Elizabeth "Liz" Jayne McDonald is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actress Beverley Callard, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 27 October 1989 and remained on the series until Callard opted to leave in 1998...

 for a short time.

In 2006 he starred in Thin-King Productions 'Rock-A-Hula Rest Home' as Jesse Garon, an elderly man who believes he is Elvis Presley. He guest-starred in the Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

 audio adventures Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

: Catch-1782

Catch-1782

Catch-1782 is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:The Sixth Doctor and Mel attend the centenary celebrations for the National Foundation for Scientific Research...

, Sapphire and Steel: The School and Professor Bernice Summerfield: Timeless Passages

Timeless Passages (Bernice Summerfield)

Timeless Passages is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...

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