Charles Dale

For the governor of New Hampshire, see Charles M. Dale.

Charles Dale (born 4 February 1963) is a Welsh actor known for playing Big Mac in Casualty, Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street, Gary "Chef" Alcock in The Lakes and Clive Eustace in The Eustace Bros. He was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Television

From November 2007 until June 2016, Dale portrayed Big Mac, a hospital porter, an Emergency Care Assistant and a Healthcare Assistant in the BBC One series Casualty.

He played Steve Lewis in the BBC Wales series Belonging (1999-2009).

He has also made appearances in Lovejoy, Soldier Soldier, Bramwell, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil III, The Bill, At Home with the Braithwaites, Burnside, Steel River Blues, New Tricks, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Spaced, Rocket Man, The Pembrokeshire Murders and Unforgotten.

Theatre

In 2017, he played Hugo in the new musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Exits	Digger
1993	The Hour of the Pig	First Witness
	Genghis Cohn	Herr Heller
1999	Animal Farm	Moses / Pincher the Rottweiler	Television film, Voice only
2000	Skin Deep	Hunter	Television film
	Secret Society	Paul
2008	Domestic Flight	Barry	Short film
2009	A Bit of Tom Jones?	Factory Foreman
2013	The List	Richard van Meeren
2015	The Real Mamils		Television film
2017	Another Man's Shoes	Charlie	Short film
2023	Linda	Post Office Manager	Short film
2024	Frankenstein: Legacy	Bob

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Danger: Marmalade At Work	Male Nurse / Sailor / Burglar	Recurring role; 3 episodes
	Big Deal	Policeman	Episode: "A Ragged Run"
	Morgan's Boy	Gareth Price	Recurring role; 4 episodes
1985	Summer Season	Gareth / George	Recurring role; 2 episodes
	Ties of Blood	Soldier	Episode: "Out of Time"
1991	The War of the Roses	Lord Willoughby / Ned Poins / Le Far / Vernon / Young Clifford / Earl of Richmond	Miniseries; 7 episodes
1992	Lovejoy	D.S. Redston	Episode: "Benin Bronze"
	Van der Valk	Simon Plesman	Episode: "Still Waters"
	Screen Two	Ambulance Driver	Episode: "The Last Romantics"
	A Touch of Frost	Colin Fletcher	Episode: "Not With Kindness"
1995	Casualty	Phil Tully	Episode: "Out of Time"
	The Bill	Don Collyer	Episode: "Lockdown"
1996	Bramwell	Duncan	Episode: "The Rule of Thuggery"
	Testament: The Bible in Animation	Sailor / Ninevite	Episode: "Jonah"
1997	The Bill	Miles Cooper	Episode: "In the Dark"
	The Famous Five	Police Inspector	Episode: "Five Go Off in a Caravan"
1997–1999	The Lakes	Gary Alcock	Series regular; 14 episodes
1998	Out of Hours	Welby	Episode: "Episode 5"
1999	Casualty	Billy Traynor	Episode: "Crazy Love"
	Touching Evil	DCI Wheelan	Episode: "Innocent"
	Spaced	Security Guard	Episode: "Chaos"
2000	Where the Heart Is	Colin	Episode: "Friends in Need"
	At Home with the Braithwaites	McGuire	Recurring role; 4 episodes
	Clarkson's Car Years	Pub Actor	Episode: "The New Romantics"
	Burnside	Billy Holden	Episode: "Back with a Vengeance"
2000–2002	Coronation Street	Dennis Stringer	Series regular; 167 episodes
2002–2003	The Eustace Bros.	Clive Eustace	Series regular; 12 episodes
2003	Casualty	Larry Steadman	Episode: "Flash in the Pan"
	The Bill	Mark Wilson	Episode: "Better Late Than Never"
2004	Steel River Blues	George Barnes	Series regular; 7 episodes
	Conviction	Malcolm Waters	Episode: "Episode 4"
2004–2006	Barking!	Greg	Series regular; 20 episodes
2005	The Last Detective	Craig Thorn	Episode: "Towpaths of Glory"
	Rocket Man	Barney Scott	Miniseries; 6 episodes
2006	Holby City	George Allen	Episode: "Looking After Number One"
	Judge John Deed	P.O. Dave Spearson	Episode: "Hard Gating"
	Thin Ice	Rocky	Miniseries
	New Tricks	Stephen Murray	Episode: "Lady's Pleasure"
	The Street	Steve	Episode: "Stan"
	Where the Heart Is	Brian	Episode: "Flesh and Blood"
	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Maxentius	Episode: "Constantine"
	Vincent	Leo Harvey	Episode: "Soldiers of a False Army"
	Robin Hood	Lucky George	Episode: "Brothers in Arms"
2006, 2009	Belonging	Steve Lewis	Recurring role; 2 episodes
2007	The Royal	DS Slingsby	Recurring role; 3 episodes
2007–2021	Casualty	Big Mac	Series regular; 354 episodes
2012	Holby City	Big Mac	Episode: "Unsafe Haven: Part Two"
	Made in Wales	Mr. Griffith	Episode: "Buddha Boy"
2016	Moving On	Roy	Episode: "Zero"
2017	Grantchester	Cyril Parker	Episode: "Series 3, Episode 3"
	Armchair Detectives	Bob Tanzer	Episode: "Watercolour Crime"
2018	Kiri	Alan	Episode: "Episode 3"
	Requiem	Royce Evans	Miniseries; 6 episodes
	Doctors	Dennis Wallace	Episode: "In Plain Sight"
2021	The Pembrokeshire Murders	DS Gareth Rees	Miniseries; 3 episodes
	Unforgotten	Chief Constable Robin	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2022	Rules of the Game	Brian Weston	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	Jacob Tark	Episode: "If It Be Man's Work"
	Sherwood	Leonard Gibson	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2023	Midsomer Murders	Gideon Blundell	Episode: "The Devil's Work"

Video games

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2020	Assassin's Creed Valhalla		Voice only
2022	Elden Ring	Preceptor Seluvis	Voice only
	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	V	Voice only

External links

• Charles Dale at IMDb