David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having played dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.

Filmography

• 2026Pressure — Theatre Play, Writer
• Étoile — Nicholas
• COBRA — Archie Glover-Morgan
• 2019Downton Abbey — Mr Wilson
• 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding — Bernard
• Killing Eve — Bill, Bill Pargrave
• 2017National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead — The Player
• Urban Myths — George Frideric Handel
• 2016Florence Foster Jenkins — Carlo Edwards
• The Witness for the Prosecution — Sir Charles Carter
• Penny Dreadful — Oscar Putney
• The Wright Way — Gerald Wright
• Yes, Prime Minister — Prime Minister Jim Hacker
• 2010Mo — Jon Norton
• 2008Dickens' Secret Lover — Charles Dickens
• 2008Dustbin Baby — Elliot
• 2008The 39 Steps — Sir George Sinclair
• 2007Mr. Bean's Wedding — Bride's Father
• 2007My Boy Jack — Rudyard Kipling, Writer
• 2006A for Andromeda — General Vandenberg
• The Thick of It — Steve Fleming
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Major Hugh Horton
• Hustle — Sir Anthony Reeves
• 2002Crime and Punishment — Luzhin
• 2002Two Weeks Notice — Howard Wade
• 2001Ivor the Invisible — Park Keeper (voice)
• 2001Station Jim — Riorden Jnr
• 2000Timequest — Clint Hill
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence — Col. Bonnet
• 1998Talking Heads 2
• Keeping Mum — Richard Beare
• Midsomer Murders — George Jeffers
• 1996Never Mind the Horrocks
• The Thin Blue Line — Detective Inspector Derek Grim
• 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral — Bernard the Groom - Wedding Two
• Love on a Branch Line — Lionel Virley
• Nice Day at the Office
• Wycliffe — David Miller
• Cracker — Graham
• Soldier Soldier — Major Tom Cadman
• The Darling Buds of May — Captain Robert Battersby
• Chancer — Dr. Haselden
• Portrait of a Marriage — Harold Nicolson
• Campion — Cully Randall, Guffy Randall
• Hannay
• Talking Heads — Wilfred Paterson
• Inspector Morse — Peter Rhodes
• 1986The Alamut Ambush — Colin Jenkins
• 1986The Cold War Killers — Colin Jenkins
• 1985Morons from Outer Space — Palatial House Flunkey
• 1984Dark Enemy — Ash
• 1983A Flame to the Phoenix — Mirek Grabinski
• Chessgame — Colin Jenkins
• Dramarama — Bill Brock
• Diamonds — Alex Randolph
• 1980Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive — Pangol
• Blake's 7 — Forres
• 1978The Moon Stallion — Todman
• The Moon Stallion — Todman
• Doctor Who — Pangol
• Eloise

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2016There's Something About Romcoms — Self
• The Michael Ball Show — Self