Acting

Stuart Golland

Born — Died

1945-08-03 — 2003-09-11

Place of birth

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

Stuart Golland (born 3 August 1945 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – died 11 September 2003 in Leeds) was an English actor best known for playing George Ward in the ITV drama series Heartbeat. Golland worked as a plasterer and bar manager in his native Sheffield and the Isle of Man before becoming interested in acting whilst managing a pub opposite the Crucible Theatre. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff before acting in a number of theatre companies, including at the Royal National Theatre. In 1981 he also appeared in the Ken Loach film Looks and Smiles. Golland went on to become a familiar face on British television, landing parts in All Creatures Grea…

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Brookside poster
6.4

The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Brookside

1982

Brookside poster
6.4

The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Brookside

1982

Heartbeat poster
7.1

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

Heartbeat

1992

All Creatures Great and Small poster
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

Rumpole of the Bailey poster
7.1

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

The New Statesman poster
7.5

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

The New Statesman

1987

The Darling Buds of May poster
7.9

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

The Darling Buds of May

1991

In Suspicious Circumstances poster
6.5

Introduced by renowned English actor Edward Woodward, In Suspicious Circumstances is an anthology of reenactments depicting real-life murder mysteries, some famous and some obscure, exploring cases with elements of miscarriage of justice, unsolved mysteries, and unusual circumstances, often spanning different historical periods.

In Suspicious Circumstances

1991

Stay Lucky poster
7.0

Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.

Stay Lucky

1989

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7.0

Police series set in the Liverpool docks.

Waterfront Beat

1990