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Steve Halliwell

Steve Halliwell

Acting

Biography

Steve Halliwell (1954-2023) was a British actor best known for playing Zak Dingle in ITV soap Emmerdale. He also appeared in the landmark TV movie Threads and in the film The Fourth Protocol.

Known For

Heartbeat
7.2

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Heartbeat

1992
Emmerdale
4.3

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

Emmerdale

1972
All Creatures Great and Small
7.8

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

All Creatures Great and Small

1978
Cracker
6.6

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Cracker

1993
Threads
7.6

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Threads

1985
G.B.H.
6.3

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.

G.B.H.

1991
The Fourth Protocol
6.3

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

The Fourth Protocol

1987
Fair Game
4.8

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Fair Game

1994
First and Last
7.0

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

First and Last

1989
Emmerdale Family Trees
N/A

Weave your way through the life & loves of the show's most iconic families.

Emmerdale Family Trees

2020
Shoot to Kill
N/A

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

Shoot to Kill

1990
Emmerdale: Don't Look Now! - The Dingles in Venice
9.0

Emmerdale's Dingle family take on Venice!

Emmerdale: Don't Look Now! - The Dingles in Venice

1999
Emmerdale: The Dingles - For Richer, For Poorer
6.0

The Dingle family are feeling the pinch, resorting to eating scraps and selling old bric-a-brac to make ends meet. Clutching at straws, Zak sets off with Belle to buy a Eurobillions rollover week ticket. As Zak and Belle make their way to purchase the ticket, we enter two parallel universes and the fun enfolds as fate serves up very different futures with their lucky numbers and potential winning ticket…. We then seamlessly experience the two ever shifting worlds as the most turn of events leads the extended Dingle family into two parallel but polar opposite futures. Will it be the reality of winning the lottery that brings delight, or will the harsher reality of lies and bogus tickets leave the clan counting the cost of nearly winning a fortune? The havoc unfolds with hilarious results as the film asks the question ‘How much would winning the lottery change you?’

Emmerdale: The Dingles - For Richer, For Poorer

2010
The Merrihill Millionaires
N/A

They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.

The Merrihill Millionaires

1993
Emmerdale: The Dingles Down Under
9.0

When a young, wealthy Australian crashes (literally) into their lives and whisks them off to Australia, Mandy's thinking wedding bells, Zak looks for his long lost relative Crocodile Dingle, Vic and Terry find someone new to fight over and even Butch finds romance in the most unexpected of places.

Emmerdale: The Dingles Down Under

1997
Daft Mam Blues
N/A

As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?

Daft Mam Blues

1977
Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years
N/A

Celebrating 50 years of Emmerdale, telling the story of how a sleepy daytime afternoon series about rural folk became the award-winning, ratings-busting, peak-time drama that it is today. With a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes secrets and anecdotes, the cast remembers key moments from the last five decades.

Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years

2022