Malcolm Terris

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Malcolm Hope Terris (11 January 1941 – 6 June 2020) was an English actor.

He acted in many television programmes, including possibly his best-known role as Matt Headley in When the Boat Comes In, a popular 1970s series.

His film career includes appearances in Special Branch (1973), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), McVicar (1980), The Plague Dogs (1982; voice only), Slayground (1983), The Bounty (1984; as Thomas Huggan, ship's surgeon), Mata Hari (1985), Revolution (1985), Scandal (1989), Chaplin (1992) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).

His TV appearances include:

"The Horns of Nimon" episodes of Doctor Who (season 17) (1979–80). One episode of Rooms (1974) and four episodes of the mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983). Regular episodes of Coronation Street, mostly as Eric Firman in the mid-1990s. In April 2011 he appeared as Len Merryman in an episode of Midsomer Murders.

In 1958, and prior to going to drama school, Terris was a trainee reporter on the Sunderland Echo, the town's evening paper.

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