Mark Heap





















Mark Heap
Born
(1957-05-13) 13 May 1957 (age 61)
Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India[1]
Occupation Actor
Years active 1987–present

Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedies such as Spaced, Brass Eye, Big Train, Jam, Green Wing, Upstart Crow and Friday Night Dinner.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Television


  • 3 Film


  • 4 Filmography


  • 5 Advertising work


  • 6 Other acting


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Early life


Heap was born in Tamil Nadu, India, to an English father and American mother, the youngest of four boys. He began his acting career in the 1980s as a member of the Medieval Players, a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry. His brother, Carl Heap, was the artistic director of the company.[2] After its demise, he became part of the street theatre duo The Two Marks (with Mark Saban) who appeared on television shows Ghost Train and 3-2-1.



Television


He has appeared in a variety of television comedy roles, often playing obsessive and self-deluded characters, including struggling artist Brian Topp in Spaced, the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in Green Wing, and various roles in the sketch show Big Train, many scenes of which he improvised.[3] He has worked in a number of ventures with Chris Morris, appearing in Jam, its radio predecessor Blue Jam, and the documentary parody series Brass Eye. He voiced the lead character of Eric Feeble in the animated comedy Stressed Eric. Other recurring roles included Terry Roche in Paul Whitehouse's comedy-drama Happiness and Derek Few in How Do You Want Me?. Heap played Harry in the short-lived Rob Grant TV series The Strangerers, aired in 2000. He also guested in the second series of the BBC comedy Look Around You as Leonard Hatred.


He appeared in the 2007 BBC One drama Hotel Babylon as an unsuccessful businessman who became a bellboy. Between 2008 and 2010 he appeared in 32 episodes of the BBC period drama Lark Rise to Candleford as head postman Thomas Brown, as well as super villain Lightkiller in an episode of the sitcom No Heroics. He also appears as the father of Chris Miles in the Channel 4 programme Skins. Heap played the love interest of the main character in the second series of the BBC comedy Love Soup. He played the role of Charles Dickens in the 2009 BBC Two drama Desperate Romantics. Also that he played Jessica Hynes' husband in the one-off comedy Lizzie & Sarah, written by Hynes and Julia Davis.


In 2010 Heap appeared as Bob Stevens, the leader of a rambling group in the BBC4 series The Great Outdoors. He also appeared as a psychiatrist in Miranda Hart's comedy Miranda on BBC2. In October 2010 he appeared as Robin in the four-part BBC drama Single Father. Heap plays Jim in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner alongside Simon Bird and Tamsin Greig. He also played Andrew Thorogood in the BBC Four comedy Holy Flying Circus and Jonas in the 8th episode of E4's sci-fi comedy-drama Misfits series 3.


He joined the cast of the Sky1 original series Spy for its second season commencing in October 2012, replacing Tom Goodman-Hill as Philip Quil, Judith's partner and Marcus' headteacher. He appeared in the spin-off episode of Outnumbered, the Christmas special episode, aired on 24 December 2012 in which he portrayed Norris, for this single episode. He played the owner of a pet crematorium in Sue Perkins's 2013 comedy Heading Out. Mark also had a leading role in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Gogol's 'Lost Souls.' He starred as Robert Greene in series one (2016) and series two (2017) of Upstart Crow, a BBC 2 sitcom about Shakespeare, written by Ben Elton. His co-stars included David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Rob Rouse, Gemma Whelan and Liza Tarbuck.



Film


In 1983, Heap made a brief appearance as a fire-breather in the James Bond film Octopussy. He played a school teacher in the 2002 film About a Boy. He appeared in Tim Burton's 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He played a roles in Confetti (2006), Tunnel of Love (2004), Stardust (2007), and The World's End (2013). In 2008 he co-starred in the surreal science fiction film Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth.



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Year
Title
Role
Notes
1983

Octopussy
Indian Fire Juggler

1987

The Les Dennis Laughter Show
The Two Marks
1 episode
1990

Up Yer News
Film Assistant
1 episode
1992

Packing Them In
Fire eating stiltwalker
1 episode
1993

Viva Cabaret
The Two Marks
1 episode
1994

The Bill
Chris Boxer
1 episode

Seaforth
Capt. Karl Von Berner
2 episodes

How High The Moon


1995

The World of Lee Evans
Platform Guard
1 episode
1997

Hospital
Dr. Ralph Crosby


Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Duncan


An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
DS Maskell
1 episode
1997–1998

Smith and Jones

2 episodes
1997–2001

Brass Eye
Various roles

1998

Kiss Me Kate
Peter
3 episodes
1998–1999

How Do You Want Me?
Derek Few

1998–2000

Stressed Eric
Eric Feeble

1998–2002

Big Train
Various roles

1999

All Along the Watchtower
Mr. Carter
1 episode

People Like Us
Graham Atkinson
1 episode
1999–2001

Spaced
Brian Topp

2000

The Strangerers
Harry


Jam
Various roles

2001

The Ultimate Stress Show: Managing Stress



Doc Martin
Mitch

2001–2003

Happiness
Terry Roche

2002

About A Boy
Maths teacher


Ant Muzak

Short
2003

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Mitch


Spine Chillers
Balfus
1 episode
2004

Dalziel and Pascoe
Julian Finch
1 episode

The Calcium Kid
Sebastian Gore-Brown


Swiss Toni
Terry Fragment
1 episode

Tunnel of Love
Gibson


Out of Time
Charlie

2004–2006

Green Wing

Alan Statham
17 episodes 1 special
2005

Blake's Junction 7
Avon
Short

Look Around You
Leonard Hatred
2 episodes

Casanova
Doctor Gozzi
1 episode

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Man With Dog


Animal
Hugo Getner

2006

Confetti
Registrar


Scoop
MC


Alpha Male
Darwen

2007

Hotel Babylon
Robert Kane
1 episode

Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Mr. Humfries


Stardust
Prince Tertius

2008

Skins
Graham Miles
1 episode

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth
Scrutty Baker


Love Soup
Douglas McVitie


No Heroics
Lightkiller
1 episode

The Pro

Short
2008–2011

Lark Rise to Candleford
Thomas Brown

2009

Desperate Romantics

Charles Dickens


Cast Offs
Darren
1 episode
2010

Lizzie and Sarah
Michael


The Great Outdoors
Bob


Fable III
Brian
Video game

Single Father
Robin

2010, 2015

Miranda
Anthony
2 episodes
2011

Holy Flying Circus
Andrew Thorogood


Misfits
Jonas
1 episode

Miso Soup
Shash
Short
2011–present

Friday Night Dinner
Jim Bell
31 episodes
2012

The Indian Doctor
Rev Herbert Todd


A Moody Christmas
Heathrow Passenger
1 episode

Outnumbered
Norris


Spy
Philip


Is This a Joke?

Short
2012–present

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Lord Mountford
4 episode
2013

Heading Out
Brian
1 episode

All Stars
Simon Tarrington


The World's End
Publican 7

2014

Death in Paradise

1 episode (series 3 episode 6)
2015

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

Clive Dunn

2016–present

Upstart Crow

Robert Greene

2016

The Comedian's Guide to Survival
Pick Up Driver


Endeavour
Felix Lorimer
1 episode (series 3, episode 4)

Maigret
Doctor Moers

2017, 2018

Benidorm
Malcolm/Dennis
3 episodes (series 9, episodes 7 and 8 and series 10, episode 7)


Advertising work


In 2009 he appeared as a car salesman in a SEAT television advert. Heap voices the fox in the Old Speckled Hen adverts sponsoring comedy on Dave.[4]



Other acting


In 2008 Heap played the role of Widmerpool in a Radio 4 serialisation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. He played Eliza's husband in 2006 Radio 4 play The Eliza Stories and appeared as Marmite the Dwarf in the short-lived Radio 4 sitcom The Sofa of Time. He starred in the music video for Four Tet's single "Smile Around the Face" in 2005, contributed a multitude of character voices in the audiobook "Do Ants Have Arseholes?". In 2012 he starred as Martin in the Radio 4 play Cordite for Breakfast, a comedy about Napoleonic-era battle re-enactments.[5] In March 2013, he appeared as Rincewind in a 4-part Radio 4 adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Eric. In 2014 it was announced that Heap will play the angel Aziraphale in the BBC radio adaption of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens.[6]



References





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  2. ^ Carl Heap. "Finding the method in medieval theatre's madness | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2016.


  3. ^ "Big Train at 20 - interview with Arthur Matthews". The Digital Fix. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.


  4. ^ Wilmore, James (7 May 2010). "Old Speckled Hen renews sponsorship of TV channel Dave". The Publican magazine. Retrieved 15 April 2011.


  5. ^ "Cordite for Breakfast". BBC. 10 July 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2012.


  6. ^ Brown, Brigid (5 September 2014). "BBC Radio Brings Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens to Life". BBC America. Retrieved 6 September 2014.




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