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David Horovitch is an English actor who was born on the 11th of August, 1945 in London, England. The theatre veteran is best known on the screen for his recurring role as Inspector Slack in the eighties BBC One adaption of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery Miss Marple (1984-1992). Horovitch was born in London, the son of Alice Mary, a teacher, and Morris Horovitch, a child care worker. He was educated at St Christopher School, a boarding independent school in the town of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Horovitch has played many roles on popular British TV shows in the past 40 years including: Thriller, The New Avengers, Prince Regent, Piece of Cake, Bulman, Hold the Back Page, Boon, Love Hurts, Westbeach, Just William, Drop the Dead Donkey, Peak Practice, Foyle's War, The Second Coming, Deceit and Casualty as well as starring in the little-remembered ITV detective show Bognor. In 1984, he played the role of Detective Inspector Slack for the first BBC One Miss Marple adaptation: The Body in the Library. Horovitch later returned for four Miss Marple Christmas specials: The Murder at the Vicarage, 4.50 from Paddington, They Do It With Mirrors and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. In 1990, he then portrayed the role of Commander Daniels in Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister. Horovitch has also made a number of film appearances, including Sergeant Maskell in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), a French scientist in The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987), a Yiddish-speaking character in Solomon and Gaenor (1999) and as Dr. Pavlov in the Disney sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). In 2007, he then appeared opposite Ewan McGregor in the Woody Allen thriller film Cassandra’s Dream and also guest-starred the following year in the Sapphire and Steel audio drama Remember Me. Horovitch later played Dr. Price in Mike Leigh's 2014 film Mr. Turner, starring Timothy Spall in the title role, and then appeared in several films including the 2016 biographical crime drama The Infiltrator, the 2017 mystery drama The Sense of an Ending and the 2018 supernatural horror The Nun. In 2019, he then played Corporal-Colonel Square in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army. In August of 2021, it was announced that Horovitch had joined the cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel spinoff, House of the Dragon. In the fantasy series, set to premiere in August of 2022, he will be portraying Grand Maester Mellos.

FILMOGRAPHY

2022 House of the Dragon (TV Series)
Grand Maester Mellos (4 episodes)

2022 The Creeping
Reverend Joseph

2020 Rebecca
Coroner

2017-2020 Holby City (TV Series)
Rabbi Stein (3 episodes)

2020 Summerland
Albert

2020 The Murders at White House Farm (TV Mini Series)
Mr. Justice Drake

2019 Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (TV Mini Series)
Colonel Square

2013-2018 Doctors (TV Series)
Harry Brook / Gerald Dunlop / Del Burman (3 episodes)

2018 The Nun
Cardinal Conroy

2017 A Simple Fracture (Short)
Professor Philip Stone

2017 The Man with the Iron Heart
Admiral Hansen

2017 The Sense of an Ending
Headmaster

2016 The Chamber
Captain

2016 The Infiltrator
Saul Mineroff

2015 Royal Shakespeare Company: Love's Labour's Won
Leonato

2015 Royal Shakespeare Company: Love's Labour's Lost
Holofernes

2014 The Assets (TV Mini Series)
US Ambassador

2014 Mr. Turner
Dr Price

1994-2013 Casualty (TV Series)
Morris Zuckerman / Dr. Malcolm Healey / Roger Longford (3 episodes)

2009 Heartbeat (TV Series)
Douglas Philpot (1 episode)

2009 The Young Victoria
Sir James Clark

2008 In Your Dreams
Edward

2008 Casualty 1907 (TV Mini Series)
Lord Rothschild

2007 Cassandra's Dream
Angela's Dad

2007 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
James Hobson (1 episode)

2006 Donovan (TV Series)
Palmer Thornhill (1 episode)

2005 Wire in the Blood (TV Series)
Mr Brown (1 episode)

2004 Dirty War (TV Movie)
Lambert

2003 The Second Coming (TV Mini Series)
Mr. Streeter

2002 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (TV Movie)
Burnley

2002 The Safe House (TV Movie)
Dr. Henderson

2002 Foyle's War (TV Series)
Thomas Kramer (1 episode)

2002 Max
Max's Father

1999-2001 Peak Practice (TV Series)
Eric Hawkins (3 episodes)

2001 A Touch of Frost (TV Series)
Jameson (2 episodes)

2000 Deceit (TV Mini Series)
Inspector Dawson

2000 102 Dalmatians
Dr. Pavlov

2000 One of the Hollywood Ten
Ben Margolis

1999 Solomon & Gaenor
Isaac

1999 Great Expectations (TV Movie)
Matthew Pocket

1998 Heat of the Sun (TV Mini Series)
Dr. Emil Mueller

1997 Holding On (TV Mini Series)
Judge

1991-1997 The Bill (TV Series)
Bill Rowland / Frank Sampson / Geoff Secker (5 episodes)

1997 Ivanhoe (TV Mini Series)
Isaac

1996 Drop the Dead Donkey (TV Series)
Bishop Waddle (1 episode)

1996 The Sculptress (TV Mini Series)
Edward Clarke

1995 Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret (TV Movie)
Bowles

1994-1995 Just William (TV Series)
Mr. Brown (12 episodes)

1995 Capital Lives (TV Series)
Marsden (1 episode)

1995 Shine on Harvey Moon (TV Series)
Charles (1 episode)

1994 The Blue Boy (TV Movie)
Robert

1993 Westbeach (TV Series)
Hugo Preston (10 episodes)

1992-1993 Love Hurts (TV Series)
Simon Friedman (9 episodes)

1992 Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (TV Movie)
Superintendent Slack

1992 Papierowe malzenstwo
Frank Haddow

1991 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (TV Movie)
Chief Inspector Slack

1990 Stay Lucky (TV Series)
Bill Rowlands (1 episode)

1990 Poirot (TV Series)
Commander Daniels (1 episode)

1989 Boon (TV Series)
Terry Conroy (1 episode)

1988 Piece of Cake (TV Mini Series)
'Uncle' Kellaway

1987 Bergerac (TV Series)
Simeon Fox (1 episode)

1987 Vanity Fair (TV Series)
Rev. Bute Crawley (2 episodes)

1987 Bulman (TV Series)
Commander McHeath (1 episode)

1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie)
Pierre Claudel

1987 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (TV Movie)
Detective Inspector Slack

1986 The Best Years of Your Life (TV Movie)
Consultant

1986 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (TV Movie)
Det. Inspector Slack

1985-1986 Hold the Back Page (TV Mini Series)
Russell de Vries

1984 Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (TV Mini Series)
Detective Inspector Slack

1983 The Cleopatras (TV Mini Series)
Chickpea

1981-1982 Bognor (TV Series)
Bognor (21 episodes)

1982 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Sergeant Maskell

1980 The Sandbaggers (TV Series)
Philip Skinner (1 episode)

1979 Prince Regent (TV Mini Series)
Lieutenant Colonel Lake

1977-1978 Emmerdale Farm (TV Series)
Richard Roper (6 episodes)

1977 Jubilee (TV Series)
Andrew (1 episode)

1976 The New Avengers (TV Series)
Tom Fitzroy (1 episode)

1976 Hadleigh (TV Series)
Tim Balfour (2 episodes)

1976 Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini Series)
Doctor

1975 Thriller (TV Series)
Tredgett (1 episode)

1974 Mr. Shepard & Mr. Milne (TV documentary)
Young Adult Ernest Shepard

1974 Seven Faces of Woman (TV Series)
Duncan Thomas (1 episode)

1974 Justice (TV Series)
Philip Cooke (1 episode)

1972 Omnibus (TV Series documentary)
Will Rothenstein (1 episode)

1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series)
Paul Freeman (1 episode)

1972 The Shadow of the Tower (TV Series)
Sir John Rosewarne (1 episode)

1970 Manhunt (TV Series)
Kurt (1 episode)