Stage and screen actor who excelled in playing authority figures and appeared in TV shows such as Brookside and LovejoyMalcolm Tierney, who has died aged 75 of pulmonary fibrosis, was a reliable and versatile supporting actor for 50 years, familiar to television audiences as the cigar-smoking, bullying villain Tommy McArdle in Brookside, nasty Charlie Gimbert in Lovejoy and smoothie Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe in David…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PM on February 21, 2014