Roger Allam

Roger Allam is an English stage, screen, radio, and voice actor who studied at Christ’s Hospital School and Manchester University. He originated the role of Inspector Javert in the original 1985 London production of Les Misérables, and has won three Olivier Awards — Best Actor for Privates on Parade (2001) and for Falstaff in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (2011), plus Best Supporting Actor for Money. His screen work includes V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Game of Thrones, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Peter Mannion MP in The Thick of It, as well as the voice of Captain Howdy Doody in Cabin Pressure. He is best known to Endeavour audiences as DCI Fred Thursday, Endeavour Morse’s gruff but kind-hearted mentor, a role he played from 2012 to 2023.