David Calder

David Calder is an English actor born in Portsmouth on August 1, 1946, who received his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. On television he became known for Detective Inspector George Resnick in Widows and Nathan Spring in Star Cops. In 1989 he appeared in an adaptation of David Lodge's Nice Work, and in 2012 he played Captain Edward Smith for the ITV mini-series Titanic. From 2005 to 2006 he took the part of PC George Dixon in a radio version of Dixon of Dock Green. He played Sir Robert King in The World Is Not Enough (1999), a James Bond film. Other film parts included Moonlighting (1982) and Rush (2013), and he appeared in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). In the BBC TV drama United (2011) he played Harold Hardman, and on stage he took the title role in Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre in 2017.