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Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale[1] (born 12 February 1952) is an English actor, director, and producer.
[edit] Biography[edit] Early lifeMacCorkindale was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, to Peter and Gill MacCorkindale. He has a younger brother, Duncan. His father Peter was a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and a station commander. He attended the exclusive Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire from 1965-70, where he was Head Boy. He also joined the Air Training Corps and initially had plans to join the RAF, but failed an eyesight test. He trained at Theatre of Arts in London. [edit] CareerMacCorkindale has a vast number of acting credits to his name, having appeared in numerous television and film roles in the United Kingdom and the United States. These include I Claudius, Hammer House of Horror - Visitor From The Grave, Beasts, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Death on the Nile, Quatermass, Falcon Crest, The Riddle of the Sands and Jaws 3.[2] He served as the male lead on the television programmes Manimal in 1983,[2] and Counterstrike from 1990-3. He has also starred in At The Midnight Hour with Patsy Kensit. MacCorkindale is also a stage and television director and producer; he owns the production companies Anglo Films International and Amy International Artists based at Shepperton Studios.[2] He made his TV directing debut in 1986, directing the Falcon Crest episode "Checkmate". He served as co-executive producer for the 2000 syndicated TV series Queen of Swords,and guest starred as the sadistic sea captain Charles Wentworth in the episode Runaways, and the 2002 syndicated Canadian TV series Adventure Inc.. He also produced and composed music for the 1989 film Djavolji raj (That Summer of White Roses), starring his wife Susan George and Tom Conti. MacCorkindale joined the cast of the BBC One medical drama Casualty in 2002, portraying clinical lead consultant Harry Harper.[3] MacCorkindale commented that he "loved [his] time on Casualty," and spent time researching all of the medical terminology he used to ensure he understod it. In February 2007, MacCorkindale was given a five month sabbatical from Casualty due to a storyline and toured the UK in a revival of the Agatha Christie thriller The Unexpected Guest. He returned to Casualty, but having rediscovered his "taste" for theatre left in 2008 to take the role of Andrew Wyke in Sleuth which toured the UK before being performed on the West End.[2] On 25 August 2008 he replaced Simon Burke as Captain Georg von Trapp in the London Palladium production of The Sound of Music and remained with the show till its closure on 21 February 2009.[4][5] [edit] Personal lifeHe lives on an Arabian stud-farm on Exmoor with his wife, British actress Susan George, to whom he was married in October 1984 in Fiji. They met in 1977.[2][3][5] They also lived together in Buckinghamshire near the River Thames and then on a farm on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire boundary. He was previously married to actress Fiona Fullerton on 10 July 1976 in the City of London. The marriage ended in divorce in 1981. MacCorkindale was diagonsed with bowel cancer in 2006, undergoing an operation to remove a section of his bowel during a two-week Casualty filming break. It was thought to have been cured but a year later the cancer spread to his lungs. MacCorkindale continued working during his treatment. He publically revealed the disease was terminal in November 2009.[3][5] [edit] Filmography[edit] Films
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