Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Andrew McCulloch (born October 27, 1945), often credited as Andy McCulloch, is a British television writer and actor.He was born in Ayr, Scotland, educated at Bedford School, and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.His first television writing credit was for the Doctor Who story "Meglos" in 1980, penned with John Flanagan, with whom he retains a regular writing partnership. A second script for the following season, called "Project Zeta-Sigma" failed to materialise. In 1991 however they wrote the cult spy series Sleepers, which was shown on BBC Two starring Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke. He has also written for Murder in Suburbia; numerous episodes of Heartbeat and its spin-off The Royal; and gained critical acclaim for Margery and Gladys with June Brown and Penelope Keith in 2003.His acting credits include the movies playing Ham Peggotty in the 1969 version of David Copperfield, Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Cry Freedom and The Land That Time Forgot, Colonel Leckie ith BBC series 'By The Sword Divided'and guest parts in Taggart, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Messiah and cult comedy Father Ted.. }
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- Andrew_McCulloch_(writer_and_actor) abstract "Andrew McCulloch (born October 27, 1945), often credited as Andy McCulloch, is a British television writer and actor.He was born in Ayr, Scotland, educated at Bedford School, and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.His first television writing credit was for the Doctor Who story "Meglos" in 1980, penned with John Flanagan, with whom he retains a regular writing partnership. A second script for the following season, called "Project Zeta-Sigma" failed to materialise. In 1991 however they wrote the cult spy series Sleepers, which was shown on BBC Two starring Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke. He has also written for Murder in Suburbia; numerous episodes of Heartbeat and its spin-off The Royal; and gained critical acclaim for Margery and Gladys with June Brown and Penelope Keith in 2003.His acting credits include the movies playing Ham Peggotty in the 1969 version of David Copperfield, Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Cry Freedom and The Land That Time Forgot, Colonel Leckie ith BBC series 'By The Sword Divided'and guest parts in Taggart, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Messiah and cult comedy Father Ted.".