Cast and Crew of Inspector Morse

Cast of
Inspector Morse

About Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

Main Cast of Inspector Morse

John Thaw
plays Chief Inspector Morse (28 episodes)

Kevin Whately
plays Detective Sergeant Lewis (28 episodes)

Peter Woodthorpe
plays Dr. Max DeBryn (28 episodes)

James Grout
plays Chief Superintendent Strange (28 episodes)

Colin Dexter
plays Man in Sheldonian Theatre Behind Lord Hinksey (21 episodes)

Secondary Cast of Inspector Morse

Maureen Bennett
plays Val Lewis (5 episodes)

Amanda Hillwood
plays Dr. Grayling Russell (4 episodes)

Julia Sawalha
plays Rachel (1 episode)

Perry Fenwick
plays Jimmy (1 episode)

Derek Fowlds
plays Kurt Friedman (1 episode)

Jacqueline Leonard
plays Miss Sarah Spillers (1 episode)

Jean Anderson
plays Lady Hinksey (1 episode)

Peter Blythe
plays Kenneth Lawrence (1 episode)

Sukie Smith
plays Lorraine (1 episode)

Suzanna Hamilton
plays Emma Cryer (1 episode)

Tenniel Evans
plays Dr. David Kerridge (1 episode)

Judy Campbell
plays Mrs. Rawlinson (1 episode)

Adam Morris
plays Constable Dixon (1 episode)

Su Elliot
plays Mrs. Hart (1 episode)

George Irving
plays George Henderson (1 episode)

Daniel Massey
plays Anthony Donn (1 episode)

Barbara Leigh-Hunt
plays Blanche Copley-Barnes (1 episode)

Lisa Harrow
plays Thelma Radford (1 episode)

Jake Wood
plays Jimmy (1 episode)

Tip Tipping
plays P.C. Dene (1 episode)

Sam Kelly
plays Walter Majors (1 episode)

Kenneth Haigh
plays Freddie Galt (1 episode)

Ian Sharp
plays First Angler (1 episode)

Dicken Ashworth
plays George Drummond (1 episode)

Peter McEnery
plays Donald Phillipson (1 episode)

Amanda Wenban
plays Typist (1 episode)

Amanda Burton
plays Mirella Lunghi (1 episode)

Elspet Gray
plays Mrs Bartlett (1 episode)

Julie Legrand
plays Brigitte de Plessy (1 episode)

David Haig
plays Peter Rhodes (1 episode)

Charlotte Coleman
plays Jessica White (1 episode)

Anna Chancellor
plays Sally Smith (2 episodes)

Gertan Klauber
plays German Man (1 episode)

Christine Norden
plays Laura Poindexter (1 episode)

Michael Hordern
plays Doctor Starkie (1 episode)

Nicky Henson
plays Vince Cranston (1 episode)

Gavin Richards
plays Steven Trevors (1 episode)

Ivor Roberts
plays Mr. Waugh (1 episode)

George Costigan
plays Ron Garrett (1 episode)

Betty Marsden
plays Cynthia Preece (1 episode)

Al Hunter Ashton
plays Detective (1 episode)

Peggy Mount
plays Nun (1 episode)

Eileen Way
plays Mrs Papas (1 episode)

Max Phipps
plays DI Glenn McAllister (1 episode)

Philip Locke
plays Freddie Mortimer (1 episode)

Ian Bleasdale
plays Time and Motion Expert (1 episode)

Clive Swift
plays Dr Bartlett (1 episode)

Sheila Gish
plays Gwladys Probert (2 episodes)

Patrick Godfrey
plays Dr. Greer (2 episodes)

Michael Culver
plays Maugham Willowbank (2 episodes)

Samantha Bond
plays Helen Marriat (1 episode)

Michael Kitchen
plays Russell Clark (1 episode)

Patricia Hodge
plays Lady Hanbury (1 episode)

Beatie Edney
plays Deborah Burns (1 episode)

Anna Calder-Marshall
plays Jane Robson (1 episode)

Kenneth Cranham
plays Cedric Downes (1 episode)

John Normington
plays Lionel Pawlen (1 episode)

James Laurenson
plays Tony Richards (1 episode)

Marion Bailey
plays Fran Pierce (1 episode)

Cheryl Campbell
plays Sylvie Maxton (1 episode)

Alex Jennings
plays Victor Preece (1 episode)

Patrick Malahide
plays Jeremy Boynton (1 episode)

Ann Bell
plays Catherine Dawson (1 episode)

Rhondda Findleton
plays Anne Harding (1 episode)

Elizabeth Hurley
plays Julia (1 episode)

Fabia Drake
plays Mrs. Jarman (1 episode)

John Bluthal
plays Victor Ignotas (1 episode)

Janet Suzman
plays Dr. Claire Brewster (2 episodes)

Keith Allen
plays John Peter Barrie (2 episodes)

Richard Pasco
plays William Bryce-Morgan (1 episode)

Andrew Ray
plays Alfred Rydale (2 episodes)

Patsy Byrne
plays Mrs. Maltby (1 episode)

Michael Aldridge
plays Arthur Drysdale (1 episode)

Mildred Shay
plays Janet Roscoe (1 episode)

Robert Stephens
plays Sir Wilfred Mulryne (1 episode)

Michael Gough
plays Philip Ogleby (1 episode)

Charlotte Mitchell
plays Mrs Staveley (1 episode)

Peter Amory
plays DC Hilaire (1 episode)

Tom Wilkinson
plays Jake Normington (1 episode)

Paul Shelley
plays Stephen Radford (1 episode)

David Lonsdale
plays Detective (1 episode)

Iain Cuthbertson
plays Desmond McNutt (1 episode)

Maggie O'Neill
plays Hilary Dobson (1 episode)

Carole Ashby
plays Laura (1 episode)

John Castle
plays Tony Doyle (1 episode)

Philip Bretherton
plays David Acum (1 episode)

Shirley Stelfox
plays Mrs. Kane (1 episode)

Norman Jones
plays Chief Inspector Bell (2 episodes)

Jason Durr
plays John Brewster (2 episodes)

Kevin Stoney
plays Heironymous St John (2 episodes)

Adrian Dunbar
plays John Marriat (1 episode)

Martin Clunes
plays James Balcombe (1 episode)

Isla Blair
plays Janey Wilson (2 episodes)

Clifford Rose
plays Dr. Charles Hudson (1 episode)

Laura Sadler
plays Sabena (1 episode)

Gary Webster
plays Colin (1 episode)

Bryan Pringle
plays Barker (1 episode)

Geoffrey Palmer
plays Matthew Copley-Barnes (1 episode)

Lionel Jeffries
plays Charles Radford (1 episode)

Jenny Howe
plays Angry Neighbour (1 episode)

Pat Heywood
plays Mrs. Mitchell (1 episode)

James Hazeldine
plays Digby Tuckerman (1 episode)

Jeremy Clyde
plays Roger McMill (1 episode)

Glyn Houston
plays George Craven (1 episode)

Cheryl Hall
plays Laura - Secretary (1 episode)

John Junkin
plays Chief Inspector Holroyd (2 episodes)

John Elmes
plays Roger Meadows (1 episode)

Maurice O'Connell
plays Harry Josephs (1 episode)

Robert Lang
plays Chief Superintendent Dewar (1 episode)

Norman Rodway
plays Roland Marshall (1 episode)

David Ryall
plays Derek Whittaker (1 episode)

Tilly Vosburgh
plays Irene Saunders (1 episode)

Nicola Cowper
plays Jane Marriot (1 episode)

John Gielgud
plays Lord Hinksey (2 episodes)

Gwen Taylor
plays Margaret Cliff (1 episode)

Liza Walker
plays Vicky Wilson (2 episodes)

Bev Willis
plays Denman (1 episode)

Connor Byrne
plays Constable Willis (1 episode)

Charles Collingwood
plays Cassidy (1 episode)

Michael Attwell
plays Parsons (1 episode)

Noel Johnson
plays Butler (1 episode)

Richard Pearson
plays Jerome Hogg (1 episode)

Freddie Jones
plays Harry Field Senior (1 episode)

Holly Aird
plays Angie Hartman (1 episode)

Robert Hardy
plays Andrew Baydon (2 episodes)

Gilly Coman
plays Holly Trevors (2 episodes)

Alun Armstrong
plays Superintendent Holdsby (1 episode)

James Aubrey
plays Pathologist (2 episodes)

Sorcha Cusack
plays Joyce Garrett (2 episodes)

Michael Bertenshaw
plays Detective (1 episode)

Bert Parnaby
plays Ben (1 episode)

Patrick Troughton
plays George Jackson (1 episode)

Richard Owens
plays Dr. Mathew Brewster (1 episode)

Denys Hawthorne
plays Chief Superintendent Rennie (1 episode)

John Bird
plays George Linacre (1 episode)

Shahnaz Pakravan
plays Doctor (1 episode)

Maurice Denham
plays Lance Mandeville (1 episode)

Ronald Pickup
plays Ian Matthews (1 episode)

Jenny Jay
plays Sylvia Kane (1 episode)

Carol Starks
plays Jane Folley (1 episode)

Brian Bovell
plays Pierre (2 episodes)

Ralph Nossek
plays Professor Joshua Masterson (1 episode)

Jonathan Firth
plays Peter Thornton (2 episodes)

John Cater
plays The Dean (1 episode)

Sian Thomas
plays Carol Sharp (1 episode)

Venetia Barrett
plays Mrs. Webb (1 episode)

Antony Carrick
plays George Granger (1 episode)

Nathaniel Parker
plays Jamie Jasper (1 episode)

David Neal
plays Dr. Julian Dear (1 episode)

Jenny Laird
plays Mrs. Keelan (1 episode)

Ben Onwukwe
plays Doctor (1 episode)

John Bett
plays Thomas Neely (1 episode)

Gemma Jones
plays Anne Staveley (1 episode)

Anna Patrick
plays Eirl's Secretary (1 episode)

Geoffrey Beevers
plays Peter Foster (1 episode)

Jean Ainslie
plays Cleaning Lady (1 episode)

Simon Coady
plays Street Preacher (1 episode)

Jan Harvey
plays Friday Rees (1 episode)

Jill Baker
plays Jennifer Coleby (1 episode)

Julian Curry
plays Alan Cartwright (2 episodes)

Anna Massey
plays Lady Emily Balcombe (1 episode)

Preston Lockwood
plays College Chaplain (2 episodes)

Richard Cubison
plays Pharmacist (1 episode)

Vania Vilers
plays Paul Eirl (1 episode)

Rosalind March
plays Susie Tuckerman (1 episode)

Doug Bradley
plays Clergyman Williams (2 episodes)

Steven Mackintosh
plays DS Cheetham (2 episodes)

Trevor Byfield
plays Harry Field (1 episode)

James Naughtie
plays Radio 4 Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) (1 episode)

Diana Quick
plays Hilary Stephens (2 episodes)

Billy Hartman
plays Police Sergeant (1 episode)

Sue Johnston
plays Mrs. Bailey (2 episodes)

Tony Steedman
plays Lawrence Cryer (1 episode)

Andrew Read
plays Peter Morris (1 episode)

Gina McKee
plays Girl in Betting Shop (1 episode)

Jill Johnson
plays Mrs. Burns (1 episode)

Alan David
plays Sir Watkin Davies (1 episode)

Robert Arden
plays Eddie Poindexter (1 episode)

Pamela Stirling
plays French Woman (1 episode)

Paul Mooney
plays Pathologist (1 episode)

Christopher Hunter
plays Andreas Heller (1 episode)

Philip Anthony
plays Newspaper Editor (1 episode)

Frederick Treves
plays Dean of Lonsdale College (1 episode)

Andrew Wilde
plays Edward Manley (1 episode)

Mel Martin
plays Rosemary Henderson (1 episode)

Pearce Quigley
plays Mick McGovern (1 episode)

Kim Thomson
plays Helen Radford (1 episode)

Tariq Yunus
plays George (1 episode)

Tessa Wojtczak
plays Angie Howe (1 episode)

Christopher Fulford
plays Tim Ablett (1 episode)

John Jarratt
plays Sergeant Scott Humphries (1 episode)

Jonathan Coy
plays Harry Balcombe (1 episode)

Julia Goodman
plays May Lawrence (1 episode)

Kate Harper
plays Patti Wilcox (1 episode)

Patrick Drury
plays Frank McTeer (1 episode)


Crew of Inspector Morse