Biography
David Lyon
Acting
David Laurie Lyon (16 May 1941 – 7 June 2013) was a British stage, television, and film actor. Of Scottish descent, David Lyon was born in 1941 to Joe Lyon, a diamond merchant, and his wife Margaret. David spent much of his childhood in Sierra Leone where his father worked, before being sent home to be educated at Crofton House in Dumfriesshire in Scotland. He won a scholarship to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, but was forced to leave education at the age of 16 when…
Career works
29
Movies
17
Series
12
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
05/16/1941
Place of birth
Sierra Leone
Date of death
06/07/2013
Filmography highlights
Movies
Greenfingers
2001 · 6.3
Richard II
1997 · 9.0
Tell Me That You Love Me
1991 · 9.0
The War That Never Ends
1991 · 5.0
Death Has a Bad Reputation
1990 · 6.5
Codename: Kyril
1988
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Reasonable Force
1988
Love After Lunch
1987
Ping Pong
1987 · 5.5
Empire State
1987 · 5.1
Defence of the Realm
1986 · 6.5
The Price
1985
Macbeth
1983 · 6.4
The Ploughman's Lunch
1983 · 5.1
The Disappearance of Harry
1982 · 8.0
Series
Monarch of the Glen
2000 · 7.3
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5
Pie in the Sky
1994 · 8.3
Stanley and the Women
1991 · 6.5
Performance
1991 · 6.3
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · 6.5
House of Cards
1990 · 8.1
The Chief
1990 · 7.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · 8.2
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Christabel
1988 · 6.0
Lovejoy
1986 · 7.4
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · 7.0