Creator / Gary Waldhorn

Gary Peter Waldhorn, (3 July 1943 — 10 January 2022), was a British actor best known for playing David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley.

After graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 1967, where he performed in the new works written by Lillian Hellman. He went on to work in many West End theatre productions and collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Waldhorn began appearing on TV in The '70s, going on to make small appearances in The Bill, Brideshead Revisited, Gallowglass, Heartbeat, Lovejoy, Minder, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Robin of Sherwood, Rumpole of the Bailey, Softly, Softly, Space: 1999, and The Sweeney.

He also played Lionel Bainbridge in Brush Strokes for the first three series. When Waldhorn left the series, Lionel was killed off. In 1994, he was cast in the role he was best known for - the snobbish David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley - and appeared in every episode.

He died at the age of 78.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Films

• Zeppelin (1971) — Harlich
• Escape to Victory (1981) — Mueller

Series

• Doctor on the Go, episode "It's Just the Job" (1975) — Mike Sherman
• Whodunnit?, episode "Final Drive" (1975) — Sergeant Channing
• The Sweeney, episode "Hit and Run" (1975) — Alan Fowler
• Space: 1999, episode "The Infernal Machine" (1976) — Winters
• The New Avengers, episode "The Tale of the Big Why" (1976) — Roach
• Enemy at the Door, 2 episodes^{show list} "Steel Hand from the Sea", "Post Mortem" (1978-80) — Teddy Lupus
• The Professionals, episode "Everest Was Also Conquered" (1978) — Turner
• Return of the Saint, episode "The Poppy Chain" (1978) — Rickman
• Hammer House of Horror, episode "Carpathian Eagle" (1980) — Bacharach
• Brideshead Revisited, episode "Et in Arcadia Ego" (1981) — Major Wilson
• Minder, episode "The Son Also Rises" (1982) — Alex Rowan
• Robin of Sherwood, episode "The King's Fool" (1984) — Hubert Walter
• Screen Two, 2 episodes:
  • "Shergar" (1986) — Deferre
  • "After Pilkington" (1987) — Boris
• ScreenPlay, episode "Chinese Whispers" (1989) — Dr. Buckman
• The Chief, 4 episodes (1991) — Councillor Alec Radcliffe
• Rumpole of the Bailey, episode "Rumpole and the Quacks" (1991) — Dr. Cogger
• Gallowglass, 3 episodes (1993) — Ralph Apsoland
• Lovejoy, 3 episodes^{show list} "Three Men and a Brittle Lady", "Swings and Roundabouts", "Breaking the Broker" (1993-94) — Detective Sergeant Bob Pulver
• The Vicar of Dibley, 20 episodes (1994-2007) — Councillor David Horton
• French and Saunders, 2 episodes:
  • "The Quick and the Dead" (1996) — Gary
  • "The Making of Titanic" (1998) — Bruce Ismay
• Heartbeat, episode "A Long Shot" (1996) — Joss Harrop
• The Bill, episode "Hard Cash" (1998) — Kenny Roberts
• Longitude, 2 episodes (2000) — Commodore Forrest
• Hotel Babylon, 1 episode (2008) — Donald Stern

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