The Cast In Other Roles: Beyond Their Stations

[Mrsjumbo]

The actor who plays Sir John, the neighbor who is selling his estate in season 6 episode 1, also played Wickham in the (Colin Firth version) of Pride & Predujice.

[MissLucas]

Just saw Brendan Coyle in the trailer for the next season of 12 Monkeys. Time-traveling Mr Bates puts a new light on Mr Green's murder ;)

[treeofdreams]

I am currently re-watching I, Claudius, and looking up the cast members found a couple of crossovers with Downton Abbey.  Germanicus (David Robb) is now Dr. Clarkson, and Herod Agrippa (James Faulkner) is Lord Sinderby.

Edited January 18, 2016 by treeofdreams

[TudorQueen]

I remember thinking James Faulkner was so incredibly hot as Herod Agrippa, Not so much now as Lord Sinderby, but he has aged well, overall, and his voice is still pretty damn terrific.

Edited January 18, 2016 by TudorQueen

[Constantinople]

Castor (Kevin McNally) played Horace Bryant, the obnoxious man who was the father of the Major Bryant who impregnated Ethel, Season 2's red headed housemaid.

Kevin McNally is also the real life husband of Phyllis Logan, aka Mrs Hughes (though I guess her character's name is now Mrs Carson).

[dargosmydaddy]

I spent all of last night wondering why Bertie looked so familiar. Finally remembered he played a wife-killer in an episode of Grantchester. Run, Edith!

[JudyObscure]

I'm watching "War and Peace<'  on Lifetime -- just found it after waiting for it to show up on PBS -- the logical place, I thought.  Anyway. I think Lily James (Rose) is just wonderful in it.  I also saw her in Cinderella so, counting her last season at Downton, this is the third time I've seen her play "young woman in love," and I think she does it fabulously.  I cried when she danced with  Prince Grantchester   in W&P she was so radiant.

[meep.meep]

It's also on A&E and the History Channel - and Lily James is very good in it.

 

I appear to be the only one in the world who watched Spotless, but Brendan Coyle plays an actual bad man - a scary gangster.  

[caligirl50]

Thank you for mentioning War & Peace.  Watching now.

[elle]

Just caught the "Supernatural" episode 'About a Boy', what a hoot is was to see Mrs. Patmore!  Don't want to spoil it for anyone but the folks at DA should borrow a clip for a "whatever happened to..?" joke reel.

 

(and I see that this episode was shown and commented on this past July!  Long live reruns!)

Edited February 8, 2016 by elle

[MzLiz]

I just started watching Downton Abbey (love it!). I just finished season three.

I noticed while watching it there were several actors who had been in the Horatio Hornblower series (which was in the late 90s but I loved it).

Paul Copley (Mr. Mason, Williams father) played Matthews in HH.

Robert Bathurst (Sir Anthony Strallan who jilted Edith at the altar) played Lt. Eccleston in HH

Jonathan Coy (Mr. Murray, solicitor) played Lt Bracegirdle on HH

[Diane M]

I just marathon watched "The Crimson Field", a wonderful one season TV series about field hospitals in western France during WWI.  It should have had at least one more season.  Two DA actors in it were the actor who plays Spratt, and he played an equally annoying character.  Kevin Doyle was one of the leads and did a wonderful acting job, especially in the last episode.  I love Molesley, so I was happy to see Mr. Doyle in a more dramatic role, and he impressed me.

Edited February 18, 2016 by Diane M

[caligirl50]

I’ve just done a marathon of Foyle’s War.  Both Julian Ovenden and Jeremy Swift have recurring roles. Kevin Doyle is in one episode as is George Murray (the lawyer who never dined nor stayed at the house the entire 6 seasons of the show) without his big mustache.  Some of these actors have such distinct voices that is how I recognized Murray (Jonathan Coy).

[Spunkygal]

Looked back through this forum and didn't see these mentioned...

In The Vicar of Dibley, Hugh Bonneville had a one time role as Jeremy, Geraldine's vicar friend who had secretly carried a torch for her. He performed the ceremony when she marries the new hunk in town, Richard Armitage. He was hilarious!

Penelope Wilton was the spurned wife who decided to pose nude with her WA friends in Calendar Girls. That role was always in the back of my mind while watching her as Isobel! She is such a good actress.

[Badger]

Here's something I found very cool although it won't mean much to anyone under 40: Back in Season 2, there was a character called General Robertson who was Lord Grantham's commanding officer.  He did a scene where Robert was all excited about going to the front, only to be told that his return to active duty was more ceremonial than anything else, that basically they needed someone to go to military banquets and buck up morale.  Anyway, the actor who played him is Jeremy Clyde who was the Jeremy of Chad and Jeremy.  If you ever watch old "Dick Van Dyke Show" reruns, they played "The Redcoats" in a show which parodied Beatlemania.

[AndySmith]

Cry Freedom was on the other day. It was released in 1987. For a while, I was trying to figure out who played Kevin Kline's wife in the movie...till it hit me that it was Penelope Wilton.

 

Edited March 19, 2016 by AndySmith

[skyways]

I just saw Poppy Drayton (Madeline Asgarth) in a show call Shanara Chronicles or something like that.

[Badger]

Laura Carmichael is in a new ITV drama called "Marcella."  The first episode aired Monday.

 

Robert James-Collier has been cast in a new ITV crime drama called 'The Level."  They just started filming in London and Brighton recently. 

[piequinn35]

Dan Stevens' The Guest was good.

[Hanahope]

On 2/8/2015 at 8:44 PM, Too Late Kev said:

Leslie Nicol (Mrs. Patmore) was on Supernatural this week as a witch...but she's still a cook, too. You have to check out that picture and the quote next to it.

I just saw this episode in my quest to watch all seasons before S13 starts.  She was great and that was a fantastic quote.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Joanne Froggatt, Jack Williams, & Harry Williams discuss her new show Liar

Edited September 29, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[helenamonster]

I got to see the premiere of Liar at the Tribeca TV Festival in New York (and met Joanne afterwards; she was really lovely and said yes when I asked for a picture). It seems like it's been getting a lot of positive buzz in the UK, so I'm excited to see where it goes.

Doesn't look like there's a forum for it here though, unless I'm completely missing it.

[STFUFrank]

Dan Stevens in the FX show Legion is amazing. Probably my favorite thing any of the cast members have done post DA. 

[humbleopinion]

Saw Lord Grantham in the newest Paddington movie trailer.

Lady Grantham in The Commuter trailer, playing the wife of Liam Neeson.

Still grieving over the end of DA and get sucked in everytime the local PBS shows DA marathons to fund raise....

[humbleopinion]

Jim Carter/Mr. Carson will be Pope Boniface VIII in History's Channel new show called Knightfall.

[AZChristian]

Dan Stevens is going to play Charles Dickens in a new holiday movie about how/why Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol."  We saw the previews today; it's definitely the kind of movie we'll enjoy.

[Atlanta]

Bertie, the Marquess of Hexham (Harry Hadden-Paton) is in "The Crown" as Martin Charteris.

Joanne Froggatt was in "A Street Cat Named Bob."

[humbleopinion]

Lady Rose, Lily James did a good job as a typist, Miss Layton for Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.

Fast Clickity Clacking on a manual typewriter.

[Popples]

On 12/13/2017 at 3:30 PM, Atlanta said:

Bertie, the Marquess of Hexham (Harry Hadden-Paton) is in "The Crown" as Martin Charteris.

Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode) is Tony Armstrong-Jones and Charles Blake (Julian Ovenden) is Bobby Kennedy.

[humbleopinion]

Lady Grantham, Cora is cast as Liam neeson's wife in the movie The Commuter.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Hugh Bonneville discusses Paddington 2:

[humbleopinion]

HughB was adequate in Padd 2 but the other Hugh...Mr. Grant stole the movie.

Stay for the rolling credits at the end...you will be very entertained.

[humbleopinion]

The Oracle is the interviewer of the Queen in "The Coronation" aired on BBCone in the UK and Smithsonian Channel in the US

[AZChristian]

There are at least 4 Downton Abbey cast members in the upcoming feature film "Guernsey." It's based on the book "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." It looks delightful.

Edited February 16, 2018 by AZChristian
Added quotation marks because I'm anal.

[Hanahope]

I really like Michelle Dockery's post Downton's acting choices, Good Behavior and Godless.  Totally different characters and she was wonderful.

[humbleopinion]

Michelle Dockery's gun shooting, horseback riding, well digging, American accent in Godless is worth the watching in the 7 episode series on Netflix...

[humbleopinion]

Matthew Goode (Henry Talbot, Lady Mary's second husband) is with Matthew Rhys(The Americans) co hosting The Wine Show on Ovation...

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Dan Stevens discusses his FX show Legion:

[humbleopinion]

Lady Rose is in  Mama Mia 2.

She plays the young Meryl Streep role...as if....

[humbleopinion]

Bertie Pelham who married Lady Edith( played by Harry Hadden Paton) plays Henry Higgins in the new revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway

[Constant Viewer]

5 hours ago, humbleopinion said:

Bertie Pelham who married Lady Edith( played by Harry Hadden Paton) plays Henry Higgins in the new revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway

Can he sing, or is he going to talk-sing it in the tradition of Rex Harrison?

[humbleopinion]

Rex was the king, see what I did there, of the talk-sing.

No one could sing less than RexH.

The clip I've seen has was the Rain In Spain and HHP was singing.....

[STFUFrank]

I'm watching The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on Netflix and it's like a mini Downton reunion. 

 

It stars:

Lily James (Rose)

Matthew Goode (Henry Talbot)

Penelope Wilton (Isobel Crawley)

Jessica Brown Findlay (Sybil)

[AZChristian]

3 hours ago, TotalHellion said:

I'm watching The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on Netflix and it's like a mini Downton reunion. 

 

It stars:

Lily James (Rose)

Matthew Goode (Henry Talbot)

Penelope Wilton (Isobel Crawley)

Jessica Brown Findlay (Sybil)

The movie is delicious on its own . . . but having our Downton folks in it is an additional treat!!!

Lily is everywhere these days.  She LITERALLY "rocks" in the new Mamma Mia.  She's a very talented woman.

[Rap541]

A blast from the past but... Did anyone else know that Dave Robb, in the 1990s, played Kalas, the tall, blond, *hot* opera singing Immortal who spent most of Season three of Highlander the Series  looking hot in evening wear, swordfighting, breaking mens necks with his bare hands, torturing people with electric cattle prods and all in all was one evil, hot son of a bitch? 

Because I didn't until I checked Imdb :)

Because I couldn't place the evil, hot, vaguely British supervillain wielding a sword but I knew I knew him from something. Imagine my surprise!

[captain1]

The actor who played Spratt plays a similarly annoying lawyer in Mary Poppins Returns.

[Llywela]

Did anyone else catch Mrs Hughes playing a near-immortal, immensely powerful alien being in the Doctor Who season finale?

[elle]

19 hours ago, Llywela said:

Did anyone else catch Mrs Hughes playing a near-immortal, immensely powerful alien being in the Doctor Who season finale?

Me! *waves*

I gasped and giggled just as I did when I saw Siobhan Finneran (O'Brien) in "The Witchfinders".  I think that DW should have at least one DA alum each season of the ones they have not already have had on.  That said, I would love for Jodie's Doctor to meet Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton).

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Julian Fellowes, Michael Engler & Elizabeth McGovern discuss The Chaperone:

[STFUFrank]

Who saw Bohemian Rhapsody? Was I the only one surprised to learn that Allen Leech played the man Freddy Mercury leaves near the end of the movie just before he tracks down the man who ultimately became his partner?