
Acting
Steve Halliwell
Born 1954-03-21 · Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Acting credits
6.3Led 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
7.6Documentary 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
1984
4.8It 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
NRCelebrating 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
NRAs 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
NRShoot 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
7.0The 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
9.0When 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
9.0Emmerdale's Dingle family take on Venice!
Emmerdale: Don't Look Now! - The Dingles in Venice
1999
6.0The 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
NRThey 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