Patrick Gerald Duggan (born 24 March 1945), known professionally as Patrick Malahide, is a British actor of stage and screen. His acting credits include The New Avengers (1976), ITV Playhouse (1977), The Eagle of the Ninth (1977), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Professionals (1978), Comfort and Joy (1984), The Singing Detective (1986), A Month in the Country (1987), Minder (1979–1988), Middlemarch (1994), The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1993–1994), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), The World Is Not Enough (1999), New Tricks, (2006), Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Paradise (2012), Luther (2015–2019), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Game of Thrones (2012–2016), Mortal Engines (2018), The Protégé (2021), and Liaison (2023).
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Early life
Malahide was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, the son of Irish immigrants; his mother was a cook, and his father secretary of the bursar at The Nautical College of Pangbourne. His education began at St Anne's Primary School, Caversham, Reading, then at Douai School in Woolhampton, Berkshire. He furthered his education at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, studying experimental psychology. Here, he began to develop his skills in acting, after joining the university's Dramatic Society, and making two appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Acting career
He made his television debut in 1976, in an episode of The Flight of the Heron, then in single episodes of Sutherland's Law, and The New Avengers (1976), and ITV Playhouse (1977). He was then in an adaptation of The Eagle of the Ninth, and his first film was Sweeney 2 in the following year. In 1979, he began a nine-year stint as Detective Sergeant Albert "Cheerful Charlie" Chisholm in the popular TV series Minder. Other television appearances have included playing Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers (1985), he starred in The Singing Detective (1986), Middlemarch (1994), and played Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the 1993–94 series. In 2006 he reunited with Dennis Waterman from Minder, appearing in an episode of New Tricks, playing Chopper Hadley in Season 3, Episode 4's "Diamond Geezers".
