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Graham McTavish (born 1961) is a Scottish television actor. He has played the character Warden Ackerman in Red Dwarf in five episodes of series 8. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Casualty, Jekyll, The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood. He also played the ill-tempered Mercenary Commander Lewis in Rambo, had a role as Desmond's drill sergeant in the fourth season of Lost, starred in Ali G Indahouse as a Customs Officer and played a Russian pirate in NCIS. He played Ferguson in 4 episodes of season 4 of Prison Break. He has also starred in the film Green Street 2 which was released on 23rd March 2009. McTavish provided the voice and motion capture work for the evil psychopath war criminal Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the voice of the main protagonist Dante Alighieri in Dante's Inferno, Restoration leader Commander Lucius in the Shadow Complex video game, and the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron. He played Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Novakovich in the eighth season of 24, and did voice work as the Marvel Comics villain Loki in Hulk Vs. Thor and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. McTavish has also been cast in upcoming film The Wicker Tree, Robin Hardy's much anticipated sequel to 1973's The Wicker Man, and as Dwalin in the much anticipated The Hobbit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Graham McTavish, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Graham McTavish
Poole
for Poole in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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In the choking yellow fog of 1880s London, Gabriel Utterson (John Simm), a lawyer who suppresses his own desires behind a mask of professional austerity, becomes obsessed with a mystery that defies the law. It begins with a "by-street" door and a story from his cousin Enfield (James McAvoy) about a "damned Juggernaut" named Edward Hyde (Andrew Scott), a man who radiates a sense of unexpressed deformity. The mystery turns personal when Utterson discovers Hyde is the sole beneficiary of his oldest friend, the brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll (Andrew Scott). As Utterson investigates, the film transitions from a Victorian detective noir into a visceral Gothic horror. He watches as Jekyll - once a "smooth-faced" pillar of society - withers into a reclusive shadow, haunted by a "chemical" addiction that is actually a spiritual rot. The tension snaps on an October night when Sir Danvers Carew (Charles Dance) is brutally beaten to death. Witnessed by a terrified Maid (Jenna Ortega), the murder launches a clinical manhunt led by Inspector Newcomen (Elijah Wood). As the evidence mounts, Jekyll’s world collapses. His rationalist peer, Dr. Lanyon (Oscar Isaac), is shocked into a literal death after witnessing Hyde drink an elixir and "melt" back into the features of Henry Jekyll. In the claustrophobic climax, Utterson and the loyal butler Poole (Graham McTavish) take an axe to the laboratory door. They find not a man, but a "half-thing" grotesque in Jekyll’s oversized clothes. Through recovered letters, the truth is revealed: Jekyll’s attempt to cage his "evil urges" only gave them a name and a body. As the serum's salt ran impure, the masks merged. "The Shadow of the Door" is a sensory assault on the duality of man - a film where the greatest horror isn't the monster in the alley, but the one staring back from the lawyer's own mirror.
