
Don Henderson
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Born Donald Francis Henderson in Leystonstone, 1931, Don Henderson was an English actor of stage, television and screen. He was best known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in a trilogy of popular Granada Television police drama series; The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman. Following the end of Bulman, Henderson starred as the priest Frank Kane in the BBC drama series The Paradise Club, pen...
Known For
Filmography

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod
1998
as Tommy Brock (voice)

Preaching to the Perverted
1997
as Commander Cope

Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Feodor

The Wind in the Willows
1996
as The Sentry

TFI Friday
1996

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995

White Angel
1994
as Inspector Taylor

No Escape
1994
as Killian

Pat and Margaret
1994
as Billy

Dandelion Dead
1994

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994

Liberation
1994
as Lord Curzon

The Trial
1993
as The Flogger

The Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Father Confessor

Tomorrow Calling
1993
as Mervyn Kihn

Cracker
1993
as Hennessy Senior

The Detectives
1993
as Brother Ryan

As You Like It
1992
as The Dukes
Black and Blue
1992
as Daddy Brett-Smith

Carry On Columbus
1992
as The Bosun

My Friend Walter
1992
as Bertie Borrowbill

Miss Queencake
1991

The War That Never Ends
1991
as Socrates
How's Business
1991
as Mr. Bailey

2Point4 Children
1991
as Frank

Merlin of the Crystal Cave
1991
as Galapas
The Fool
1990
as Bob

The BFG
1990
as Bloodbottler / Fleshlumpeater / Sergeant (voice)

Tank Malling
1989
as Percy

The Paradise Club
1989
as Frank Kane

Making Out
1989
Jumping The Queue
1989
as Huw Jones

Maigret
1988
as Barge Captain

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
as Commander

Blanc de Chine
1988
as Malcolm

Red Dwarf
1988
as Rogue Simulant

The Secret World of Polly Flint
1987
as Old Mazy

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987
as Gavrok

The New Statesman
1987
as Brigadier Miljanic
The Secret World of Polly Flint
1987
as Old Mazy

Casualty
1986
as Jerry Hunter

Dead Head
1986
as DI Malcolm
Murder Elite
1985
as Sgt Jessop

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
as The Wednesday Man

Brazil
1985
as First 'Black Maria' Guard

A Crack in the Ice
1985
as The Peasant

Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
as Don

Bulman
1985
as George Bulman

Screen Two
1985
as The Flogger

Squaring the Circle
1984
as Kuron

The Master of Ballantrae
1984
as Hicks (uncredited)

Annika
1984
as Mr Daniels

Bottle Boys
1984
as Les Burton

Atlantis
1983
as Eddie
The Boy Who Won the Pools
1983
as Mr. Baverstock

Dramarama
1983
as The Great Callisto
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
1981
as Tokkotai
Take the Stage
1981
as Self

The Island
1980
as Rollo

The Enigma Files
1980
as Prince

Dick Turpin
1979
as Bracewell

Minder
1979
as Billy Lynch

The Big Sleep
1978
as Lou

Danton's Death
1978
as Mercier

Scorpion Tales
1978
as Easterman

Strangers
1978
as DS George Bulman

Strangers
1978
as DCI George Bulman

Star Wars
1977
as General Taggi

The Finishing Line
1977

Across the Andes by Frog
1977
as Sgt. Major

Gotcha / Campion's Interview
1977
as Sellors

One Day at a Time
1977
as Jack

The Prince and the Pauper
1977
as Burly Ruffian

The Littlest Horse Thieves
1976

Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Engineering Officer

The XYY Man
1976
as DS George Bulman

Ripping Yarns
1976
as Sgt. Major

The Ghoul
1975
as The Ghoul

Brannigan
1975
as Geef

Angels
1975

Poldark
1975
as Tom Carne
Against the Crowd
1975
as Parnell

Footsteps
1974
as Policeman

Regan
1974
as Strip Club Heavy

Callan
1974
as George

A Killer in Every Corner
1974
as Boz Bostyne

Thriller
1973
as Boz Bostyne

Warship
1973
as Master-at-Arms Frank Heron

Van der Valk
1972
as Ullman

The Protectors
1972
as Walters

New Scotland Yard
1972
as Harry Watson

New Scotland Yard
1972
as Joe Warner

Play for Today
1970

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Mercier

Theatre 625
1964

Doctor Who
1963
as Gavrok