Date of Birth : Sep 26th 1939
English actor, best known for his starring role on the BBC kitchen sink sitcom The Royle Family.
As an actor he has found considerable success, appearing as Bobby Grant in the soap opera Brookside, as DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and as Jim Royle in the sitcom The Royle Family.
In 2002 Tomlinson starred in the BBC TV Series Nice Guy Eddie playing a Liverpool private investigator. Using down-to-earth cases – actually based upon real life cases by Liverpool private investigator Tony Smith – the show also starred Tom Ellis and John Henshaw.
He has also starred in several films, notably Mike Bassett: England Manager, Raining Stones and Hillsborough, a made-for-TV film about the families’ of the victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster.
CAREER
Nativity! ( 2009 )
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands ( 2002 )
Mike Bassett: England Manager ( 2001 )
Butterfly Kiss ( 1995 )
Riff Raff ( 1991 )