Lee Ingleby is an English actor who first gained attention as the young lead in the 2000 BBC Two miniseries Nature Boy, after training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is best known for playing DS John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently (2007-2017), and for Paul Hughes in The A Word (2016-2020), DCS Jim Hobson in ITV’s The Long Shadow (2023), and Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. His other credits include Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Ever After, and the 2008 crime drama Place of Execution, where he led the cast as DI George Bennett. He also voiced Bob the Builder from 2015 to 2018.

Lee Ingleby
Appears in 4 cozy crime TV shows on Cozy Crime Index.
Born in Burnley, Lancashire, England · See Burnley then and now on GhostViewer →
About Lee Ingleby
Lee Ingleby TV shows
Inspector George Gently
as John Bacchus
Set in North East England during the 1960s, Inspector George Gently follows the eponymous incorruptible detective who relocates from London to Northumberland
Life on Mars
as Vic Tyler
After being hit by a car in 2006, Manchester Detective Chief Inspector Sam Tyler wakes up in 1973, where he's now a Detective Inspector working under the command of the brutal, hard-drinking DCI Gene Hunt.
Jonathan Creek
as Derek Spratley
Jonathan Creek, a magician's creative consultant with a natural ability for solving puzzles, works from his home in a converted windmill and uses his abilities to solve impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Cadfael
as Walter
Once a Crusader, now a man of the cloth, Brother Cadfael uses his keen intuition to protect the innocent and bring the guilty to account in war-torn medieval England.