David Horovitch

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David Horovitch
Born (1945-08-11) 11 August 1945 (age 78)
London, England, UK
Education
Central School of Speech and Drama
(London)

David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor, perhaps best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple. He appeared in the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon as Grand Maester Mellos.

Early life

Horovitch was born in London, the son of Alice Mary, a teacher, and Morris Horovitch, a child care worker.

Central School of Speech and Drama in London.[2]

Horovitch's father was

Jewish but atheist and married a non-Jew, and Horovitch, who is not Jewish, was not brought up in the faith but started learning about the faith in his 40s when he was given a string of Jewish roles.[3]

Career

Horovitch has played many roles on popular British TV shows in the past 40 years including: Thriller, The New Avengers, Prince Regent, Piece of Cake, Bulman, Hold the Back Page, Boon, Love Hurts, Westbeach, Just William, Drop the Dead Donkey, Peak Practice, Foyle's War, The Second Coming, Deceit and Casualty as well as starring in the little-remembered ITV detective show Bognor.

In 1984 he played the role of Detective Inspector Slack for the first BBC

The Kidnapped Prime Minister
.

In 2022, he played Grand Maester Mellos in the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon.[4]

He has also made a number of film appearances, including Sergeant Maskell in

Solomon and Gaenor (1999), Dr. Pavlov in Disney's 102 Dalmatians (2000) and Cardinal Conroy in The Nun II
(2023).

In 2008, Horovitch guest-starred in the

Mr. Turner. In 2019 he played Corporal-Colonel Square in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army
.

Horovitch has also made numerous audiobooks, including the 2008 production of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, and the 2015 production of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Selected theatre performances

References

  1. ^ "David Horovitch Biography (1945-)". www.filmreference.com.
  2. ^ Who's Who on Television Published by: ITV Books. Date: 1981. Retrieved: 27 November 2012.
  3. ^ "'Grief is such a surreal experience'". Watford Observer. 24 January 2014. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021.
  4. ^ "House of the Dragon: Cast & Characters". HBO. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  5. ^ Wicker, Tom (9 December 2016). "All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah". The Stage.

External links

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