Charles Dale

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1963-02-04

Place of Birth

Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Charles Dale

Biography

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. 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, Unforgotten and Emmerdale

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Acting History

2025
Frankenstein: Legacy as Bob
2025
Protein as Stanton
2025
The Crow Girl as Brian Cole
2022
Sherwood as Leonard Gibson
2021
The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer
2021
The Pembrokeshire Murders as DS Gareth Rees
2018
Requiem as Royce Evans
2013
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 as Self
2013
The List as Richard Van Meeren
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2009
A Bit of Tom Jones? as Factory Foreman
2008
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
2006
Robin Hood
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Maxentius
2006
The Street
2005
Towpaths of Glory as Craig Thorn
2004
Conviction
2004
New Tricks
2003
The Eustace Bros. as Clive Eustace
2003
Real Men as DS Barry Grimes
2003
The Last Detective
2003
The Royal as DS Slingsby
2002
Paradise Heights as Clive Eustace
2002
Real Men
2001
Judge John Deed
2000
Secret Society as Paul
2000
Belonging as Steve
1999
Animal Farm as Moses/Pincher (voice)
1999
Spaced as Security Guard
1998
Barking!
1997
Midsomer Murders as Gideon Blundell
1996
Testament: The Bible in Animation as Sailor / Ninevite (voice)
1994
Ready, Steady, Cook as Self - Guest
1993
Genghis Cohn as Herr Heller
1993
The Hour of the Pig as First Witness
1992
A Touch of Frost as Colin Fletcher
1992
The Last Romantics as Ambulance Driver
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Vernon
1991
Henry VI: House of York as Young Clifford
1991
Henry IV: Part 1 as Poins
1991
Richard II as Lord Willoughby
1991
Richard III as Earl of Richmond
1991
Henry V as Le Far
1991
Henry IV: Part 2 as Poins
1986
Casualty as Big Mac
1986
Lovejoy as DS Redston
1985
Pythons on the Mountain as Gareth (aged 17)
1985
Phoebe as George
1984
The Bill
1972
Van der Valk as Simon Plesman
Rocket Man
Buddha Boy as Mr Griffith