When One Summer came out, I remember I'd just be walking down the street and especially in Liverpool people would just come up to you all the time and tell you how good it was and how much it meant to them, which was a really nice rewarding thing. Or you'd go to places and someone would want to buy you a drink. It was a great thing, I'm really proud of that show, I just think it was a really good show". Hoggart, Paul (10 June 2006). " Viva Lancs Vegas". The Times (Times Newspapers): p.41 ( The Knowledge supplement). Retrieved 1 August 2011. a b " RTS Programme Awards 2003". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 4 November 2008 ( archived by WebCite on 5 June 2011). One Summer is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It stars David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys from broken homes who escape from their grim lives by running away to Wales one summer. It also starred James Hazeldine and Ian Hart (credited in the series as Ian Davies). The five-part series was shown on Channel 4 from 7 August to 4 September 1983. It was repeated on ITV in April 1985. He always comes off as quite leftwing, without saying anything overtly political; it’s more of a leftie demeanour. He’s extremely conscious, though, of class and privilege and access. “My thing has always been, looking at this from a working-class point of view: we can get working-class people into drama schools, but that first four or five years in our business is difficult. And ipso facto acting becomes a middle-class profession because it needs the bank of mum and dad to support it.”

As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities. Morrissey was active on screen throughout 2010. He starred as Theunis Swanepoel, the interrogator of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, in the BBC single drama Mrs Mandela. His performance was praised by The Guardian and Independent critics. [75] [76] The following months saw him star as British Transport Police officer Mal Craig in the second series of BBC One's Five Days, Roman soldier Bothos in Neil Marshall's feature Centurion, stalking victim Jan Falkowski in U Be Dead, and Colonel John Arbuthnot in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. [50] [77] In 2011 and 2013, he played Murray Devlin in The Field of Blood.a b Morrissey, David. Television interview with Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley. The One Show. BBC One. 25 February 2010.

Webcast with Jason Solomons. In The Director's Chair. 19 February 2010. guardian.co.uk (Guardian News & Media). Retrieved 19 February 2010. Rudd, Alyson (5 March 2007). " It's Beverly Hills Kop". The Times (Times Newspapers): p.18 ( The Game section). Retrieved 17 December 2007. Morrissey calls Bridgerton “an absolute gamechanger” from a casting point of view, but adds: “I feel that [if] we’re seeing diversity in front of the camera, [then] we’re seeing it less behind the camera. So now we need more diversity with directors, producers, writers. That change is still quite slow for me.”

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Movie Adaptation of 'Dampyr' Comic Sets Cast, Starts Production (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. 31 October 2019 . Retrieved 7 December 2019. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r " NFT Interviews: David Morrissey". British Film Institute. 2 March 2004. Retrieved 30 October 2008 ( archived by WebCite on 5 June 2011). David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Basic Instinct 2". Rotten Tomatoes (IGN Entertainment, Inc). Retrieved 6 November 2008 ( archived by WebCite on 24 July 2011). The series was written after scriptwriter Willy Russell was approached by Yorkshire Television about producing a follow-up to his 1979 television play The Daughters of Albion. Russell pitched the idea of a six-part series, originally called "Ten Thousand Miles", but later changed to One Summer and condensed to five episodes. Produced by Yorkshire Television for the then-new Channel 4 station, the series was filmed from April to October 1982 in Liverpool, Yorkshire and Wales. [1] Staff (11 November 2009). " Morrissey on other side of camera" (includes audio clip). BBC Liverpool News. Retrieved 8 December 2009 ( archived by WebCite on 7 June 2011). David Morrissey on his life, his career and Liverpool FC". 4 August 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013 . Retrieved 11 March 2013. a b Rushton, Katherine (8 October 2009). " Sky set to take drama from Morrissey indie". Broadcast (Emap Media). Retrieved 8 October 2009 ( archived by WebCite on 7 June 2011).

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David Morrissey’s mentor was his birthplace. “I didn’t have anybody, but in Liverpool everybody is a joke teller. What I’ve always been grateful for is coming from a city that takes the arts seriously. I never felt nervous about saying to somebody, ‘I want to be an actor.’ My only nervousness was I wasn’t saying, ‘I want to be in a band.’” Morrissey is a patron of The SMA Trust (a charity that funds research into spinal muscular atrophy), [110] Liverpool's Unity Theatre, [111] and the human rights organisation Reprieve. [112] Personal life [ edit ] Franks, Alan (7 April 2007)." The everyman". The Times (Times Newspapers): pp.44–45 ( Magazine supplement). Retrieved 17 December 2008. In 2009, Morrissey and a team of filmmakers ran a series of drama workshops for Palestinian refugee children in Beirut, in conjunction with the UNRWA. [108] On his return to England, he set up the Creative Arts School Trust (CAST), a charity for the purpose of training teachers and continuing the workshops in Lebanon and elsewhere. [77] [109]