Tony Osoba
Tony Osoba ( born March 15, 1947 in Glasgow, Scotland ) is a British actor.
Life
Osoba was trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and began his career in 1974 as a prisoner Jim ' Jock ' McClaren in the British sitcom Porridge. The popular series drew in 1978 with Going Straight a spinoff and 1979 a feature film by himself. He made guest appearances on television series such as Moonbase Alpha 1, The pros and Doctor Who in 1979 and played alongside Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree and Joan Collins in the game vultures. In 1982 he had a small supporting role in the action film The command with Lewis Collins and Richard Widmark.
Awareness in German-speaking he gained through his portrayal of Detective Sergeant Charles Jarvis in the TV series Dempsey and Makepeace. In 1990, he starred in the long-lived soap opera Coronation Street, the role of Peter Ingram and 1994 he was at the opposite Timothy Dalton in the Ken Follett Ken Follett filming to see Red Eagle. Between 2002 and 2003 he had, in which he played the role of Branko in the series Dinotopia, in which Michael Brandon participated previously in Dempsey and Makepeace. Osoba is also active as a stage actor and went on to, among other performances of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Osoba is married to Sally Wignall since 1989.