David Hayman Biography

David Hayman (born 9 February 1948) is a Scottish film, television and stage actor and director, known for his role as DCS Mike Walker in ITV drama Trial & Retribution.

Life and career

Hayman was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He began his acting career at the Citizens Theatre in the city, playing a variety of roles, including Hamlet, Figaro and Al Capone. He gained national prominence playing notorious Barlinnie Prison convict turned sculptor, Jimmy Boyle, in the film A Sense of Freedom. After this film he focused on playing character roles rather than the lead. His long list of film credits include appearances supporting Pierce Brosnan in The Tailor of Panama, Bruce Willis in The Jackal and Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal. He also appeared in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as well as John Boorman's Hope and Glory.

Hayman is well known for his role as Chief Supt. Michael Walker in Lynda La Plante's long-running crime thriller Trial & Retribution, which had twelve series from 1997 to 2009. He has a distinct scar over his left eye, which he chose to use as character makeup, along with a shaved head, for his part in the series.

Hayman has also had success in directing film and TV productions. Silent Scream is a return to a study of convicts in Barlinnie Prison, examining the life of convicted murderer Larry Winters. The film was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Later followed The Hawk, starring Helen Mirren as a woman who begins to suspect that her husband is a serial killer. The Near Room is a dark and disturbing film about child abuse and corruption set in Glasgow.

In 2009 he appeared in an episode of the BBC series Robin Hood. In September 2011, Hayman hosted a documentary reconstructing the unsolved murders of Glasgow serial killer Bible John, who murdered three young woman in the late 1960s. The documentary was named In Search of Bible John, and looked at the evidence which links Peter Tobin to the killings. In 2012, Hayman played the Earl of Worcester in the BBC2 adaptation of Henry IV, Part I.

On stage, Hayman appeared as Chris in the 2011 production of Anna Christie at the Donmar Theatre, London. In 2012, he returned to the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow to play the title role in King Lear.

Hayman was awarded the City of Glasgow's gold medal in 1992, for outstanding services to the performing arts. In 2001 he founded the humanitarian charity Spirit Aid which is dedicated to children of the world whose lives have been devastated by war, genocide, poverty, abuse or lack of opportunity at home and abroad. Hayman is currently Head of Operations of the charity which undertakes humanitarian relief projects from Kosovo to Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Malawi and South Africa.

He is a supporter of Celtic F.C.

Hayman has 3 sons, David, Sammy and Sean.

Filmography

Acting

• Dartmoor Killing (2015)
• Macbeth (2015)
• New Tricks (2014) TV
• Queen and Country (2014)
• Shetland (2014) TV
• Castles in the Sky (2013)
• The Field of Blood (2013) TV
• Sawney: Flesh Of Man (Horror Film) (2012)
• The Paradise (2012) TV
• Henry IV, Part I (2012) TV
• In Search of Bible John (September 2011) TV
• Top Boy (2011) TV
• Robin Hood: "Lost in Translation" (2009) TV
• Lewis (2009) TV
• Trial & Retribution XII (2009) TV
• Wasted (2008)
• The Promise (2008)
• Trial & Retribution XI (2008) TV
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
• Flood (2007)
• A Shot in the West (2006)
• Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father (2006) TV
• Where the Truth Lies (2005)
• ' (2005)
• Trial & Retribution IX (2005) TV
• Fuse (2004)
• Gladiatress (2004)
• Trial & Retribution VIII (2004) TV
• Gifted (2003) TV
• De drabbade (2003) TV, "The Affected" (A Swedish TV-series)
• Trial & Retribution VII (2003) TV
• The Wild Dogs (2002)
• The Last Great Wilderness (2002)
• Still Game (2002)
• Trial & Retribution VI (2002) TV
• As the Beast Sleeps (2002) TV
• Trial & Retribution V (2002) TV
• The Tailor of Panama (2001)
• Murder Rooms: The Photographer's Chair (2001) TV
• Vertical Limit (2000)
• Best (2000)
• Last Orders (2000)
• Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
• Trial & Retribution IV (2000) TV
• Tough Love (2000) TV
• The Match (1999)
• Trial & Retribution III (1999) TV
• Legionnaire (1998)
• My Name Is Joe (1998)
• Trial & Retribution II (1998) TV
• Getting Hurt (1998) TV
• The Boxer (1997)
• The Jackal (1997)
• Regeneration (1997)
• Twin Town (1997)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
• Friendly Voices (1997)
• Trial & Retribution (1997) TV
• The Near Room (1995)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• The Short Walk (1995)
• Finney (1994) TV
• Between the Lines: "Manslaughter" (1993) TV
• Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) TV
• Underbelly (1992) TV
• Venus Peter (1989)
• Walker (1987)
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Murphy's Law (1986)
• Heavenly Pursuits (1985)
• Fell Tiger (1985) TV
• Reilly: The Ace of Spies (1983) TV
• It'll All Be Over in Half an Hour (1983) TV
• Love Story: Mr. Right (1983) TV
• Coming Out of the Ice (1982) TV
• Fame Is the Spur (1982) TV
• Ill Fares The Land (1982)
• Eye of the Needle (1981)
• A Sense of Freedom (1979)
• Scotch & Wry (1978) TV
• The Eagle of the Ninth (1977) TV
• Just Your Luck (1972) TV

Directing

• Harbour Lights (1999) TV
• The Near Room (1995)
• Finney (1994) TV
• Cardiac Arrest (1994) TV
• The Hawk (1993)
• A Woman's Guide to Adultery (1993) TV
• Black and Blue (1992) TV
• Firm Friends (1992) TV
• Silent Scream (1990)

Selected theatre

• King Lear (2012) - Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
• Anna Christie (2011) - Donmar Theatre, London