Iain Fletcher
Acting
Biography
Iain Fletcher is a British actor best known for his portrayal of DC Rod Skase in The Bill, a role he played from 1994 to 2000. Other television credits include Band of Brothers, Murphy's Law, Family Affairs, Holby City, Waterloo Road, Casualty, Slow Horses, and Armada: Twelve Days to Save England in which he portrayed Sir Francis Drake. He also had recurring roles in Doctors as Gary Lucas in 2013 and 2015, and EastEnders as Councillor Barker from 2025-2026. His film credits are Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man and Fuze. Stage credits include Sam Carmichael in the musical Mamma Mia! in the West End, and Bill Sikes in Cameron Mackintosh's production of Oliver!. He also played the King in The Three Musketeers at Rose Theatre Kingston. In 2021, he was in Hugh Salmon's Into Battle play at Greenwich Theatre.
Known For
An unexploded WWII bomb is discovered on a busy construction site in the centre of London. Chaos ensues as the military and police begin a mass evacuation against a ticking clock.
Fuze
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Slow Horses
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Bill
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Band of Brothers
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.
Murphy's Law
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
Armada: 12 Days to Save England
WPC Ackland finds herself the target of an assassin's bullet.