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Philip W. "Phil" Daniels (born 25 October 1958, Islington) is an English actor, most noted for film and television roles as cockneys such as Jimmy in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Mark in Meantime, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks and Grandad Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.
He attended Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington.
Daniels has made appearances in many films and television series. He made his film debut in 1976, aged 17, as a waiter in Bugsy Malone, That same year he had significant roles in three television series: The Molly Wopsies, Four Idle Hands, and The Flockton Flyer; however, he had enjoyed an incidental appearance (with fellow drama students) the previous year (1975) in Thames Television's You Must Be Joking! Over the following four years he appeared in Quadrophenia, Breaking Glass, and Scum. He also appeared in the 1970s TV drama serial Raven.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Daniels was a member of new wave band The Cross, along with fellow actor Peter Hugo Daly, the band releasing a single, "Kill Another Night" on RCA Records in 1979. His musical inclinations were revealed when he starred in a 1985 British snooker musical Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire. He narrated tracks on the Parklife and Think Tank albums for Blur.
Actors: Lenore Thomas (actress), Gudrun Giddings (actress), Peter Gibson (director), Peter Gibson (writer), Peter Gibson (producer), Jeff Blumberg (actor), Joshua Wade (actor), Alan Woolf (actor), Johan Sandstrom (producer), Johan Sandstrom (writer), Johan Sandstrom (director), Johan Sandstrom (editor), Shawnee Free Jones (producer), Shawnee Free Jones (actress), Adam Cohen (producer),
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Plot: Welcome to the world of the petty Dublin criminal. There's Massive, Mags, the Byrne brothers and then there's Cal, a small-time crook who always has time to help the elderly even when he's robbing the local post office. Cal's number one fan is his young son David, who's following in his father's footsteps, to the great dismay of his mum. The principal of his school is looking for a reason to expel him, the guards are on his trail, and a rival gang want his luminous sneakers. When they all meet up in the principal's office, something has to give.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Dietrich Haugk (director), Klaus Löwitsch (actor), Ernst Stankovski (actor), Claudine Auger (actress), Eva Brumby (actress), Susi Nicoletti (actress), Helmut Pigge (writer), Jacques Breuer (actor), Karl Heinz Vosgerau (actor), Klaus Barner (actor), Walter Riss (actor), Nicolin Kunz (actress), Lola Baxten (actress),
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