Nicholas Day (actor)

Nicholas Patrick Day (born 16 October 1947) is an English actor. He attended Alleyn's School, Dulwich and is presently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters.

Nicholas Day
Born
Nicholas Patrick Day

(1947-10-16) 16 October 1947
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1969–present

He is perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Michael Morley in Minder from 1991 to 1993. He also played Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan in Series One of the BBC drama New Tricks. He portrayed Jack The Ripper, in series six (episode five) of Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series) in 1999, and played another police officer, DCS John Meredith, in a single episode of Foyle's War in 2008. In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and The Take, and as Martin Crisp in The Dogleg Murders (Series 12 of Midsomer Murders.)

His film roles include appearances in Penelope Pulls It Off (1975), The Golden Bowl (2000), Russian Dolls (2005) and Amazing Grace (2006). In 2010 he played Colonel Montford in Joe Johnston's horror film The Wolfman.

In 2013, he played the headmaster in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

He also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for seven seasons including the World Shakespeare Festival, working on classics like The Tempest and Twelfth Night.[1]

Day was a drama teacher at Plumstead Manor Girls' School for a brief time during the early 1980s.

Since 2015 he has presented Murder Maps which is made by Netflix in the United Kingdom and is now in its fifth season in the U.K. Murder Maps is also shown on Yesterday on Freeview, Sky and Freesat in the U.K.

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