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Tony grew up with three formidable women – mum and sisters and – and married a fourth, Pat Lewis. In his youth, Tony had a reckless streak and at one point, exasperated Pat moved out, but they have worked together to and raise their children , and .

Peggy’s disapproval of their organic vision led to family tensions, which reached boiling point when she to bypass Tony and Pat. But they were reconciled when Tony was .

Tony blamed himself when , and opposed Pat’s plan to track down John’s son and . But now he is a doting grandfather to , and .

• Likes: Classic tractors, passing on his farming knowledge
• Dislikes: Being retired, pulling leeks
• Highs: Buying Bridge Farm, making peace with Peggy
• Lows: ,

• Neil Carter (Friend)
• Brian Aldridge (Brother-in-Law) - There's a constant needle match over the organic debate and Tony hates being the poor relation

Farming is in his blood. A man who faces the ups and downs of life with an equal measure of grumpiness and great fortitude. He is struggling to come to terms with life, having had to sell his beloved dairy herd.

(David took over the part of Tony in January 2014, on the retirement of Colin Skipp for health reasons.) 聽

Having been an actor for over 45 years, David's credits are numerous.

Theatre includes: Dad Enjoy (Theatre Royal, Bath and The Gielgud ), Matthew Brady in Inherit the Wind (The Old Vic), The Skin of Our Teeth (The Young Vic), Our Father and My City (Almeida), Loot and The Fool (The Royal Court), Lolio in The Changeling (Riverside Studios) .

Now a proud Associate Artist of the RSC his credits include Bottom in A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream, Kent in King Lear, Ross, the Porter and Duncan in Macbeth (not in the same production!) Hector in Troilus and Cressida, Caliban in The Tempest, both twins in The Venetian Twins, The Devil is an Ass, The Rover, Love鈥檚 Labour鈥檚 Lost, Macbett, Bolingbroke in Richard II and the title roles in Henry IV Parts One and Two and Richard III for which he received the Globe Theatre Best Actor Award.

For the National Theatre his stints have included Don Juan, Sergeant Musgrave鈥檚 Dance, Martin in Fool for Love, Captain Hook in Peter Pan, George in Playing With Fire, the Duke in Measure for Measure and Uncle Harvey in Season鈥檚 Greetings.

Television includes: Outnumbered, Army Kids, New Tricks, Holby City, Casualty 1909, Doctor Who, Jericho, Fingersmith,Paradise Heights, Born and Bred, Ted and Alice, All the King鈥檚 Men, Madame Bovary, The Last Detective, Hearts of Gold, Midsomer Murders, In Denial of Murder, Undercover Heart, Sharpe鈥檚 Rifles, Sharpe鈥檚 Eagle, Trevor鈥檚 World of Sport, Drop the Dead Donkey,Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, The Winslow Boy, Cider With Rosie, Underworld, A Few Short Journeys of the Heart, Chips With Everything and most recently Stan in The Cafe.

Film work includes: Nina Forever, Nouvelle France, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, A Very Polish Practice, The Canterbury Tales, Captain Jack, The Chain and Dance With a Stranger.

Radio: David loves the medium of radio and in 2012 was honoured to win the 麻豆约拍 Radio Drama Best Supporting Actor Award playing the Earl of Leicester in Singles and Doublets. Other credits include The Pallisers, Roots (the first time that he recorded in the Archers studio), Clever Girl, Tristram Shandy and Keeping the Score and countless more.

He loves reading stories and says he is quite good at playing his father Patrick as the second Dr Who in various Dr Who audio adventures. Indeed, he is one of only a few actors that can claim to have spanned all four decades of the programme, appearing in four different stories on television from 1967 through to 2007.

He has written about performing Richard III and Henry IV in the series of books entitled Shakespeare in Performance.

He and his wife Ali have recently moved to a village south of Stratford-upon-Avon (where he and his family lived for 28 years). There is a church, a pub, a pond, a shop, a village hall and two farms- remind you of anywhere?

They have three sons, two of whom are actors and one a Warwickshire cricketer.

Being directed by Albert Finney in Loot at the Royal Court.
Playing opposite Kevin Spacey in the courtroom drama Inherit the Wind.
Meeting the then England cricket captain Mike Brearly (twice!) after he saw me in The Changeling and White Game.
And having a pee in the 麻豆约拍 TV Centre loo between Morecambe and Wise.

• Actor - Alec McCowan, Paul Schofield and Bob Peck.
  Alison Steadman and June Watson.
  And of course Judy Bennett (Shula) who is my cousin in the programme and my first cousin twice removed in real life!

• Book - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.

• Film - The Graduate, The Great Escape and Con Air. Alright, so they’re not intellectually challenging, but wonderfully entertaining. I can (and do) watch them over and over again.

...fly in a Spitfire and umpire at Lords.