David Lonsdale


David Lonsdale is an English actor. He is best known for playing David Stockwell in the ITV 60's police drama series Heartbeat.

Career

Until 2010, Lonsdale played David Stockwell in the long-running television series Heartbeat. He also played Peter Barlow in Coronation Street in 1986, and appeared in a minor role as a repo man in the 1997 feature film The Full Monty. In 2011, he appeared again in Coronation Street in a minor role working for a solicitor. In November 2011, Lonsdale appeared in the medical drama Casualty. He returned to Coronation Street for the third time in May 2012, this time playing Edwin Soames. He now presents a Sunday morning show, The Southport Arts Show, on community radio station Mighty FM. He married his wife, Diane, in 1993.
In 2018, Lonsdale appeared in Emmerdale playing a Private Investigator, and appeared in pantomime Dick Whittington in Rochdale in 2018/2019. In recent years Lonsdale has played the part of Gordon Bennett in Uncle Eric musical comedy plays at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle under Lyme. In 2019 Lonsdale had a small role as a Desk Sergeant in the movie Downton Abbey.