William Gaminara

William Gaminara is an actor and screenwriter, probably best known for playing pathologist Professor Leo Dalton on the television series Silent Witness, from 2002 to 2013.

Education[]

Gaminara was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hants., UK followed by Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Gaminara plays Dr Richard Locke in the long-running radio soap opera, The Archers.^[1] He also voices audiobooks, including Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels and John Christopher's The Tripods.^[2][3] His other television credits include Will Newman in Attachments and Dr Andrew Bower in Casualty.^[1] Away from acting, he wrote the screenplay for the BBC adaptation of Rachel Morris's novel, Ella and the Mothers.^[1] His most notable role was Professor Leo Dalton in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, playing the part from 2002 until the death of his character in 2013. He played the part once more in 2017 in the final episode of series 20.

In 2015, Gaminara appeared as Samuel Harrogate in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode 3.13 "The Paradise of Thieves".

Notable roles[]

Radio[]

• The Archers as Dr Richard Locke (1992–)^[4]

TV[]

• Casualty as Dr. Andrew Bower
• Soldier Soldier as Major Harry, "Dickie" Bird (1991)
• The Bill as Insp. Bruce / Dr. Anthony Perry (1991-1996)
• Dangerfield in "Games" as Matthew Davidson (1996)
• Rag Nymph in "Episodes 2.1 & 2.2" as Mr. Quinton (1997)
• The Moth as Mr. Quinton (1997 TV movie)
• The Broker's Man in "Pensioned Off" as Supt Staples (1998)
• Hope & Glory as Colin Ward (1999)
• The Law as Alan Vine (2000 TV movie)
• Attachments as Will Newman (2000)
• People Like Us in "The Airline Pilot" as Captain Paul Connors (2001)
• The Gist as Phillip Boden (2002 TV movie)
• Spooks in "Spiders" as Victor Gleeson (2003)
• Silent Witness as Professor Leo Dalton (2002–2013, 2017)
• Father Brown in "The Paradise of Thieves" as Samuel Harrogate (2015)
• Electric Dreams (TV Series) Dr. El Ganol on Human Is (2017)
• The Tunnel Vengeance series 3 as Wesley Polonger (2017)
• Summer of Rockets (TV Mini-Series) Dick Armstrong Episodes 4 & 6 (2019)
• Catastrophe (TV Series) Stephen Season 4 Episode 4 (2019)
• The Trial of Christine Keeler (TV Series) John Hobson Episodes 2 & 3 (2019-2020)
• Honour (TV Mini-Series) David Lederman (2020)

References[]

External links[]

• William Gaminara at IMDb

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