Profile
Growing up in Newcastle in the 80s (that wonderful era of bad hair, worse clothes, the battle between Wham and Duran Duran, Rubik’s Cubes and Miami Vice), is probably at least partly to blame for my vivid imagination! I’m happily married to Vanessa and still living in the beautiful North-East of England just outside of Newcastle. Rod is a member of the Society of Authors, Equity, Spotlight and The Actors’ Guild.
WRITING CREDITS
The King of America (2006)
Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre (2007)
The Pit and the Pilot in Byker Books (2008)
Paranoid in Radgepacket Vol.1 (2008)
The King of America: Epic Edition (2009)
The Killing Moon (2009)
P.O.W. Wartime Log of F/Sgt T D Glenn (2010) (Contributor)
Seahouses Slaughterhouse in Holiday of the Dead (2011)
Sinema 2: Sympathy for the Devil (2011)
Gabby in Wild Wolf’s Twisted Tails (2013)
Sinema 3: The Troy Consortium (2013)
Uninvited Guests in Action: Pulse Pounding Tales Volume 2 (2013)
No Chance In Hell (2016)
Slaughterville (2017)
ACTING CREDITS
The Life of Reilly (2021, Feature Film) – Ged
Future Cop II (2020, Short Film) – Future Cop
They Came From The Sky, I Saw Them (2020, Feature Film) – Steve
Emmerdale (2019, Television) – Dr Francis Sellers
The Life of Reilly (2019, Stage Play) – Ged
Next Door (2019, Feature Film) – Rod
Michael Rice Bigger Than Us Eurovision Song Contest (2019, Music Video) – Nasty Dad
Autism Awareness in Schools (2019, Short Film) – Dad
Stranger in the Night (2018, Short Film) – Killer
The Supplication of a Drowning Man (2018, Short Film) – Nicholas
Frontier (2018, Netflix, S3) – Valet
Lifeboat by Talitha Rise (2018, Music Video) – Lead
Financial Conduct Authority PPI Campaign (2018, Commercial) – Gardener
Rapture (2018, Short Film) – Michael
We, The Brave (2018, Short Film) – Sergeant Miller
The Red Light (2018, Short Film) – Mr Carr
Monster (2018, Feature Film) – Richard
The More You Ignore Me (2018, Feature Film) – Ambulance Driver
God’s Kingdom (2018, Short Film) – Robin
American Assassin (2017, Feature Film) – Orion Instructor
Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories (2017, TV Series) – Mark Stephens
The Hippopotamus (Feature Film) – Bassanius
PayPal 2017 Campaign (2017, commercial) – Cool Dad
Guest iin London (2017, Feature Film) – Police Sergeant
Outside (2016, Short Film) – Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Wolfblood (2015-16, TV Series) – Warrior Wolfblood
National Treasure (TV Series) – Reporter
Ripper (Short Film) – Constable Matthews
The Exorcist Chronicles (TV Series) – Lance Corporal Spader
Bliss! (Feature Film) – Father
The Sceptic (Short Film) – Dr Lucane
The Dark Ages (Feature Film) – The Hitman
The Hollow Crown (TV Series) – Lord Stanley’s Bodyguard
Bill (Feature Film) – Multiple Roles
Who Done What (Short Film) – Detective Inspector Galbraith
Ripper Street (TV Series) – Train Robber
Too Young to Die (Feature Film) – School Teacher
Unbeaten (Short Film) – Fighter #1
The Clan MacLeod (Feature Film) – Insubordinate English Mercenary
Dolls (Feature Film) – DCI Jimmy Parkins
World War Z (Feature Film) – Riot Police Officer
Broken England (TV series) – Rob England
The Bad Samaritan Must Die (Short Film) – Lead Bodyguard
Run (Short Film) – Paul
Inspector George Gently (TV Series) – Party Reveller
Vera (TV series) – Police Officer
6 Feet Under (Short Film) – Thomas
The Monuments Men (Feature Film) – British Soldier
Fury (Feature Film) – American Soldier
The Hit (Feature Film) – Peter Farnsworth
Macbeth (Feature Film) – Macbeth Soldier
White Lies (Short Film) – Detective Briggs
Children of the World’s End (Audio Drama) – Radio DJ
Some of the authors who have helped inspire me include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Terry Pratchett, Hunter S Thompson, Cormac McCarthy, Jeff Long, Clive Barker, H G Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Matheson and James Herbert. The King of America, in particular, was, in part, influenced by Frank Herbert’s Dune, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the phenomenon that is Star Wars. Sinema is my attempt to delve into the darkness that is inside every one of us but, with me being such a huge film fanatic, I felt it appropriate to intertwine madness with movies. The Killing Moon is my homage to Mad Max, I am Legend and Escape from New York.
My inspirations as an actor come from Alan Rickman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Murray, Richard Burton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Dench, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, John Candy, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Bill Nighy, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Humphrey Bogart, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, Michael Sheen, Peter O’Toole, Ben Kingsley, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn and many many more. Sadly, many are no longer with us, but they will forever inspire me through their work.