Maurice Roëves


John Maurice Roëves was a British film and television actor, born in Sunderland, but raised in Glasgow.

Career

His first television role was in a short thriller series called The Scobie Man in 1972. He then went on to appear in the The Sweeney, Danger UXB, The Nightmare Man, the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of Our Lives, North and South, Tutti Frutti, Rab C. Nesbitt, The New Statesman, Spender, , the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair, EastEnders, A Touch of Frost and Skins. He played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough.
In 2006, he appeared in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. He appeared as a retired police superintendent in episode 3, "Sorrow's Child" on Southcliffe. His film roles included Ulysses, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Day at the Beach, The Eagle Has Landed, Hidden Agenda, a major role as Colonel Munro in a version of The Last of the Mohicans, Judge Dredd, The Acid House and Beautiful Creatures. In 2003, he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air.

Last years and death

In 2014, he stated that he had moved to Nottinghamshire with his wife, Vanessa Rawlings-Jackson, and they spent part of the year at a condo in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
On 15 July 2020, it was announced that Roëves had died at the age of 83, after a period of ill health.

Partial filmography