Personal Info
David Lyon
Acting
Biography
David Laurie Lyon (16 May 1941 – 7 June 2013) was a British stage, television, and film actor. Of Scottish descent, David Lyon was born in 1941 to Joe Lyon, a diamond merchant, and his wife Margaret.
David spent much of his childhood in Sierra Leone where his father worked, before being sent home to be educated at Crofton House in Dumfriesshire in Scotland. He won a scholarship to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, but was forced to leave education at the age of 16 when his father was declared bankrupt.
He first worked in Glasgow for Royal Insurance, before moving south to England to wo…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Greenfingers
as Home Secretary
Richard II
as Thomas Mowbray
The War That Never Ends
as Camarinean Representative
Tell Me That You Love Me
as Leslie Boyd
Death Has a Bad Reputation
as Patrick Cowlishaw
Reasonable Force
as Matheson
Codename: Kyril
as Burrows
Ping Pong
as Peter
Empire State
as Mr. Cavendish
Love After Lunch
as John Baines
TV Shows
Monarch of the Glen
as Mr. Burns · 1 ep.
Midsomer Murders
as Alan Thorpe · 1 ep.
Pie in the Sky
as Tom Watson · 1 ep.
Performance
as Earl of Salisbury · 1 ep.
In Suspicious Circumstances
as Dr Carr · 1 ep.
Stanley and the Women
as Dr Cliff Wainwright · 4 ep.
The Chief
as Cllr. Tom Brewster · 1 ep.
House of Cards
as Henry Collingridge · 4 ep.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Marcus Hardman · 1 ep.
Christabel
as Kreuze · 2 ep.