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 still live in the beautiful North-East of England just outside of Newcastle. I am 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
I have extensive film, television, stage, commercial, video game and voice over experience. Roles include Monster (2018), It Be an Evil Moon (2023) and Zombies of the Third Reich (2025). For a full list of screen credits, visit Rod’s profile on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5447748/
Stage roles include The Life of Reilly, Hard and You Need to Say Sorry
Commercials include PayPal, Virgin Voyager and Santander
Voice over roles include Empyreal, Our Wars Have Ended and Call to Arms – Gates of Hell
STUNT CREDITS
I am also a trained stunt professional with fight, firearms, bladed weapons, stunt coordinator and armorer experience.
Stunt Coordinator credits include BabyBel, Murder in the Highland Manor and Guardians of Loch Ness
Stunt Performer credits include Guardians of Loch Ness, Zombies of the Third Reich and House of the Dragon
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.
