Stephen Boxer Movies and Career Information

Stephen Boxer (born 19 May 1950) is an English actor who has appeared in films, on television and on stage and is best known for appearing in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors. He took a break from the show in mid-2008 to appear as Petruchio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew, returning to The Mill surgery for a few episodes in November 2010. Boxer has starred in a number of detective dramas, most notably in the second, third and fourth installments of Prime Suspect. In children's television, he was co-presenter of Get Up And Go! with Beryl Reid and its successor programme Mooncat and Co, where he was joined variously by the likes of Pat Coombs, Pam Ayres, Patsy Rowlands and Wilf Lunn. He had a featured role in the BBC docudrama A Royal Scandal. He also played Mr Smith in the 2005 adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays. He also has featured in an episode of Casualty.