Biography
Sidney Livingstone is an English stage, television and film actor. Born on 29 March 1945 in Rochdale, Lancashire, he worked as an apprentice chef, salesman, plumber's merchant and engineer before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which he graduated in 1969.
His stage career includes work with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1973 and productions directed by Trevor Nunn. On screen he is known for roles including the Captain in Twelfth Night (1996), Ned Price in Lifeforce (1985), the park keeper in About a Boy (2002), Constable Oates in Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993), Don Mitchinson in Midsomer Murders and Brian Reader in Hatton Garden: The Heist (2016). He has appeared three times in Coronation Street and in series including Call the Midwife and The Devil's Hour.
