David Haig, Film and television


Film and television

He appeared in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral and had a secondary lead in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler. In 2002 he played the brother of Four Weddings' co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, alongside Sandra Bullock. In 2007, He appeared in a Comic Relief sketch called "Mr. Bean's Wedding" as the bride's father, reuniting with his Thin Blue Line co-star Rowan Atkinson.
He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett Talking Heads monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself.
Other TV work includes Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" (1980); Blake's 7 episode "Rumours of Death" (1980); Campion story "Sweet Danger" (1990);Inspector Morse episode "Dead On Time" (1992); and Cracker. In the 90s he appeared in the successful TV series Soldier Soldier.






He appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, on the UK digital television station BBC Four. Haig appeared in a television-film adaptation of his own play My Boy Jack which was shown on ITV on 11 November 2007. It starred himself as Rudyard Kiplingand Daniel Radcliffe as his son, John. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC film Dustbin Baby and The 39 Steps, an adaptation of the 1915 novel by John Buchan. He also appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "The Glitch". In 2009 he appeared as 'Steve Fleming' in BBC TV's The Thick Of It and as 'Jon', husband to former MP Mo Mowlam in the hugely successful drama Mo opposite Julie Walters.

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