Charles Dale (born 4 February 1963) is a Welsh actor known for playing Big Mac in Casualty, Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street, Gary "Chef" Alcock in The Lakes and Clive Eustace in The Eustace Bros. He was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. From November 2007 until June 2016, Dale portrayed Big Mac, a hospital porter, an Emergency Care Assistant and a Healthcare Assistant in the BBC One series Casualty. He played Steve Lewis in the BBC Wales series Belonging (1999-2009). He has also made appearances in Lovejoy, Soldier Soldier, Bramwell, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil III, The Bill, At Home with the Braithwaites, Burnside, Steel River Blues, New Tricks, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Spaced, Rocket Man, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Unforgotten and Emmerdale

Filmography

• Falling — Father Clarey
• Death Valley — Terry Daniels
• 2025Frankenstein: Legacy — Bob
• 2025Protein — Stanton
• The Crow Girl — Brian Cole
• Sherwood — Leonard Gibson
• The Pembrokeshire Murders — DS Gareth Rees
• 2021The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer
• Requiem — Royce Evans
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators — Jacob Tark
• 2013The List — Richard Van Meeren
• 2009A Bit of Tom Jones? — Factory Foreman
• Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire — Maxentius
• Robin Hood
• Rocket Man
• The Street
• Thin Ice — Rocky
• 2005Towpaths of Glory — Craig Thorn
• Conviction
• New Tricks
• 2003Real Men — DS Barry Grimes
• The Eustace Bros. — Clive Eustace
• The Last Detective
• The Royal — DS Slingsby
• Paradise Heights — Clive Eustace
• Real Men
• Judge John Deed
• At Home with the Braithwaites — McGuire
• Belonging — Steve
• 2000Secret Society — Paul
• 1999Animal Farm — Moses / Pincher (voice)
• Spaced — Security Guard
• Barking!
• Midsomer Murders — Gideon Blundell
• Testament: The Bible in Animation — Sailor / Ninevite (voice)
• 1993Genghis Cohn — Herr Heller
• 1993The Hour of the Pig — First Witness
• A Touch of Frost — Colin Fletcher
• 1992The Last Romantics — Ambulance Driver
• 1991Henry IV: Part 1 — Poins
• 1991Henry IV: Part 2 — Poins
• 1991Henry V — Le Far
• 1991Henry VI: House of Lancaster — Vernon
• 1991Henry VI: House of York — Young Clifford
• 1991Richard II — Lord Willoughby
• 1991Richard III — Earl of Richmond
• Casualty — Big Mac
• Lovejoy — DS Redston
• 1985Phoebe — George
• 1985Pythons on the Mountain — Gareth (aged 17)
• Morgan's Boy — Gareth Price
• The Bill
• Emmerdale — Karl
• Van der Valk — Simon Plesman
• Buddha Boy — Mr Griffith

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2013The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• Ready, Steady, Cook — Self - Guest