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Derek Thompson (actor)

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Derek Thompson (born 4 April 1948) is a Northern Irish actor, most notable for playing Charlie Fairhead in the long-running BBC television medical drama series Casualty. [1]

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991.

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Bosom Buddies

Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson (Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions).

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Breaking Glass

Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce.

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Brixton

Brixton is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Brookside

Brookside is a British soap opera set in Liverpool, England.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One (sometimes with a short break in the summer between series, but not always).

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Charlie Fairhead

Charlie Fairhead, played by Derek Thompson, is a fictional character from the BBC British medical drama ''Casualty''. He is the longest-serving character having played the role of Charlie for over 30 years and the only remaining original character to have appeared continuously since the first episode on 6 September 1986. Thompson chose to take a nine-month break from the show in early 2004. Charlie left the show in series 18 on 17 July 2004 and after five months, returned on 1 January 2005 in series 19. At the end of series 19, Charlie left again as Thompson returned to his break from the show, with Charlie's exit scenes airing on 20 August 2005. After four months off-screen, Charlie returned in the series 20 Christmas crossover with Holby City, which aired on 24 December 2005. Thompson has remained with the show since, but regularly takes breaks of around two months every year. Thompson has so-far made four appearances in Casualty sister show Holby City: the show's first episode in January 1999; the second episode to the Christmas crossover in December 2005; another crossover to Holby City in February 2010 when Charlie has a heart attack; and the most recent appearance in October 2012 when he interviewed Chantelle Lane (Lauren Drummond) for a full-time nursing position. Thompson also made an appearance in Casualty spin-off police drama, HolbyBlue for its first episode in May 2007.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant Mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Dystonia

Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder syndrome in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions result in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures.

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EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.

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Flamingo Road (TV series)

Flamingo Road is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on NBC.

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Gonks Go Beat

Gonks Go Beat is a 1965 British science fiction / musical fantasy film, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis.

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Harry's Game

Harry's Game is a British television drama mini-series made by Yorkshire Television for ITV in 1982, closely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Gerald Seymour.

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Hazel O'Connor

Hazel O'Connor (born 16 May 1955) is a British singer-songwriter and actress.

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Holby City

Holby City (styled as HOLBY CI+Y) is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.

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HolbyBlue

HolbyBlue (also known as Holby Blue) is a British police procedural drama series.

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Kidderminster

Kidderminster is a large town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England.

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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a 1978 television play by Alan Bennett, produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stephen Frears.

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Minder

A minder is the person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something, i.e. a person who "minds".

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Odin's People

Odin's People was an Irish folk trio active in the 1960s, made up of twins Elaine and Derek Thompson and Larry Johns.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Resurrection Man (film)

Resurrection Man is a 1998 British film, directed by Marc Evans with a screenplay written by Eoin McNamee based on his novel of the same name.

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Rock Follies

Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, is a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s.

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Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966.

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The Gentle Touch

The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980–84.

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The Greatest American Hero

The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama superhero television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC.

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The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren.

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The Parkers

The Parkers is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from August 30, 1999, to May 10, 2004.

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The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole is a British comedy panel game show created by TV Producer Kevin Sim and originally presented by Sir David Frost and Loyd Grossman.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

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Yanks

Yanks is a 1979 drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn and Tony Melody.

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You Saw Them Here First

You Saw Them Here First is a British television show that aired on ITV from 31 July 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Thompson_(actor)

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