![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: November 29, 1948 in Aberdeen, Scotland Biography:Thanks to actors like "David Rintoul", the television miniseries has become a formidable art form. Unencumbered by the time limitations of the typical film, television movie, or stage play, the TV miniseries can take four, eight, or even 12 hours to develop themes, characters, and plots -- often based on classic literary works. Characters have time to grow, learn, make mistakes, and recite lines from Shakespeare, "Jane Austen", or "Victor Hugo". Consequently, miniseries attract good actors, good scripts, and, of course, big audiences. "David Rintoul" has made a career out of performing roles in miniseries, some of them among the best ever made. In 2001, he played the ship's surgeon, Dr. Clive, in the celebrated "Horatio Hornblower" series, appearing in Hornblower: Retribution and Hornblower: Mutiny. Rintoul began appearing in miniseries in 1975, when he played Jock Graham in "Lord Peter Wimsey: Five... Full Biography
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