David Neilson

David Neilson (born 13 March 1949 in Loughborough, Leicestershire) is an English actor best known for portraying Roy Cropper in Coronation Street from 1995 onwards. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 556 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1106 × 1193 pixel, file size: 673 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a promotional poster of headshot of David Neilson. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 556 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1106 × 1193 pixel, file size: 673 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a promotional poster of headshot of David Neilson. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Loughboroughs carillon Loughborough parish church The Brush engineering works Loughborough University Loughborough (pronounced locally as either , LUFF-burra or , LUFF-bruh, and more widely as [ˈlʌfˌb(ə)ɹə]) is a town in Leicestershire, central England with a population of 57,600 as of 2004. ... Leicestershire ( IPA: (RP), IPA: (locally)), abbreviation Leics. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Royston Roy Cropper, played by David Neilson, is a fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street. ... Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

He entered a drama school at the age of 20, working various jobs at the same time, including as a gas fitter, stripper, ice cream salesman and a barman. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A striptease dancer performing. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

His television roles include Z Cars, Up Pompeii, Bergerac, Casualty, Terry & Julian and Heartbeat. He also appeared in a celebrity edition of Stars in Their Eyes as Angry Anderson. Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ... Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of the 1970s. ... Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... Terry and Julian was a short-lived British sitcom starring Julian Clary that aired in 1992. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ... Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars. ... Angry Anderson (center) in the role of a Biker gang leader on the TV show Pizza Angry Anderson AM (born Gary Anderson, August 5, 1947, in Melbourne) is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter and actor. ...

In addition he has appeared in two Mike Leigh films: Life Is Sweet and Secrets & Lies. Mike Leigh OBE (born February 20, 1943 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire) is an award winning English film and theatre director. ... Life Is Sweet (1990) is a British film directed by Mike Leigh. ... Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British film which tells the story of a successful black woman who, while tracing her family history, discovers that her mother is a lower-class white woman (whose brother is a photographer married to a petty house-proud suburban woman). ...

In his spare time he supports Dana International. Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1972) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her cover...

External links

• David Neilson at the Internet Movie Database