Patrick Mower (born Patrick Archibald Shaw; 12 September 1938) is an
English actor well known for his various television and occasional
film roles, often as a detective or secret agent, and more recently as
Rodney Blackstock in ITV soap opera Emmerdale, a role he has played
since 2000.Mower was born the youngest of three boys in Oxford, to a
Welsh father and an English mother, Peggy. In his 2007 autobiography,
Mower states that he believed for years that his year of birth was
1940, but later he discovered that his birth was not registered and he
was born on 12 September 1938. Several reference books on film and
television, including Who's Who On the Screen (1983) and Who's Who on
Television (1996), give his town of birth as Pontypridd, South Wales,
instead of Oxford. In 2007, he took part in the BBC Wales programme
Coming Home about his Welsh family history.After first training as an
engineering draughtsman at the Cowley plant of Pressed Steel Company,
Mower graduated from RADA. He first came to prominence as an actor in
the spy series Callan in the early 1970s. Later he appeared as DCI Tom
Haggerty in Special Branch alongside George Sewell, and Det. Supt.
Steve Hackett in the police series Target, and featured in one of the
last Carry On films, Carry On England. Mower's many television roles
have included guest appearances in Jason King, Space: 1999, UFO
(episode "The Square Triangle"), Minder, The Sweeney and Bergerac (as
Eddie St Pierre). He was a regular panelist on the murder mystery
programme Whodunnit?. He currently stars as Rodney Blackstock in the
ITV soap opera Emmerdale.Mower has been married to Anya Pope since
1996. They have one child, Maxim Mower. He was previously married to
Audrey Giles with whom he had two children. He was the subject of an
episode of This Is Your Life in 1976.
English actor well known for his various television and occasional
film roles, often as a detective or secret agent, and more recently as
Rodney Blackstock in ITV soap opera Emmerdale, a role he has played
since 2000.Mower was born the youngest of three boys in Oxford, to a
Welsh father and an English mother, Peggy. In his 2007 autobiography,
Mower states that he believed for years that his year of birth was
1940, but later he discovered that his birth was not registered and he
was born on 12 September 1938. Several reference books on film and
television, including Who's Who On the Screen (1983) and Who's Who on
Television (1996), give his town of birth as Pontypridd, South Wales,
instead of Oxford. In 2007, he took part in the BBC Wales programme
Coming Home about his Welsh family history.After first training as an
engineering draughtsman at the Cowley plant of Pressed Steel Company,
Mower graduated from RADA. He first came to prominence as an actor in
the spy series Callan in the early 1970s. Later he appeared as DCI Tom
Haggerty in Special Branch alongside George Sewell, and Det. Supt.
Steve Hackett in the police series Target, and featured in one of the
last Carry On films, Carry On England. Mower's many television roles
have included guest appearances in Jason King, Space: 1999, UFO
(episode "The Square Triangle"), Minder, The Sweeney and Bergerac (as
Eddie St Pierre). He was a regular panelist on the murder mystery
programme Whodunnit?. He currently stars as Rodney Blackstock in the
ITV soap opera Emmerdale.Mower has been married to Anya Pope since
1996. They have one child, Maxim Mower. He was previously married to
Audrey Giles with whom he had two children. He was the subject of an
episode of This Is Your Life in 1976.
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