Philip Bulcock

Philip Bulcock is an English actor whose career spans film, television and theater. Born in Bury, he joined the National Youth Theatre as a teenager and played the Second Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral at the Edinburgh International Festival. He trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and at the School of the Science of Acting, where he studied acting and directing for four years under Sam Kogan. His career began with the Channel 4 television movie The Fireboy, followed by stage musicals such as Grease and Return to the Forbidden Planet. He appeared in the original West End cast of the Olivier Award-winning Jersey Boys as Nick Massi and played Murphy in The Dark Knight. His films include Brothers, 28 Weeks Later (2007), Red Tails and Dark Shadows, and he voiced David Sherlock in A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012). His directorial debut was the short film Everybody Knows My Name.