Phillip McGough is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 television actor best known for his 2010 role of Dr. Charlie Bradfield in the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 based soap opera, Doctors.

Career

McGough was cast as secret service detective Edwin Woodhall in the Alan Bleasdale

Alan Bleasdale

Alan Bleasdale is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.The Bleasdales live in prescot,liverpool,wales and london.-Early life:Bleasdale is an only child; his father worked in a food factory and his mother...

-written drama The Monocled Mutineer

The Monocled Mutineer

The Monocled Mutineer is a British television series made by the BBC in 1986, and shown on BBC1, the first episode being transmitted on 31 August 1986, intended to head BBC1's autumn season of drama...

 and appeared in Brookside

Brookside

Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...

 as Charlie Dawson who at first appeared to be a friend of Heather Haversham's then husband but turned out to be a drug dealer.

McGough is famous for playing the character of "Arnie" in a classic episode of Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...

- 'Chain Gang

Chain Gang (Only Fools and Horses)

"Chain Gang" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the third episode of series 6, and was first screened on 22 January 1989.-Synopsis:During a night at the One-Eleven Club, Rodney introduces Cassandra to Del Boy...

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However he is very well known to television viewers as Dr. Malcolm Nicholson in Bad Girls, a role he played from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2005.

In 2006, he guest-starred in the audio drama Sapphire and Steel: Perfect Day.

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