Russell Boulter 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...

 actor. He played Chris, Malcolm's assistant in series four of Watching. He has played DS John Boulton 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...

from 1995 to 2000, a character created by Matthew Wingett

Matthew Wingett

Matthew Wingett , is an English screenwriter, journalist, novelist, songwriter and hypnotist, and is the brother of English actor Mark Wingett...

, the brother of Mark Wingett

Mark Wingett

Mark Wingett , is an English actor. He is best known for playing the role of Jim Carver in the ITV1 police procedural The Bill.-Career:...

 who played Jim Carver in the series. Since then he has appeared in Casualty and Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove...

. He also appeared in three episodes of Heartbeat as Inspector Crossely.

In March 2007, Russell played a policeman in ITV1's Mobile

Mobile (TV series)

Mobile is a 3-part British television drama series with an interweaving plot based around a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse-effect of mobile phone radiation to health. The series was screened by ITV in the UK, during March 2007. The cast includes Jamie Draven, Neil Fitzmaurice,...

. He's also in the short video Discovering the Bible.

In 2008, he starred alongside other former 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...

 favourites, Cyril Nri

Cyril Nri

Cyril Nri is a British actor, writer and director. He attended the Young Vic Youth Theatre in Waterloo, London. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and is probably best known for playing the role of Superintendent Adam Okaro, now Chief Superintendent, in the long-running ITV police...

 and Philip Whitchurch

Philip Whitchurch

Philip Whitchurch is a British stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for playing Chief Inspector Philip Cato in The Bill from 1993 to 1995...

 in an episode of BBC1's Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...

.

Russell Boulter is the narrator on episodes of Deep Wreck Mysteries currently showing on The History Channel.

Russell is a Christian, and can be heard regularly reading extracts from the bible - "Words to live by" - on DAB channel UCB UK.

External links

• Russell Boulter at the Internet Movie Database