Derek Newark

Derek Newark was an English actor who worked in television, film and theater. Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1960. His first screen role came in 1961 in a television production of Sergeant Musgrave's Dance, and he went on to appear in a great many series, among them Doctor Who, Z-Cars and Barlow, in which he had the regular part of Detective Inspector Tucker, plus Rising Damp as the wrestler Spooner. In film he played Jessard, sidekick to Sean Connery's sergeant, in Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1973). On stage he joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and later worked with the Royal National Theatre, where his roles included Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shelley Levene in the premiere of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. His last television part was in The Bill in 1996.