Charles Dale
Charles Dale (born 4 February 1963) is a Welsh actor known for playing Big Mac in Casualty, Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street, Gary "Chef" Alcock in The Lakes and Clive Eustace in The Eustace Bros. He was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. From November 2007 until June 2016, Dale portrayed Big Mac, a hospital porter, an Emergency Care Assistant and a Healthcare Assistant in the BBC One series Casualty. He played Steve Lewis in the BBC Wales series Belonging (1999-2009). He has also made appearances in Lovejoy, Soldier Soldier, Bramwell, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil III, The Bill, At Home with the Braithwaites, Burnside, Steel River Blues, New Tricks, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Spaced, Rocket Man, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Unforgotten and Emmerdale
54 acting credits
Acting · 54
Midsomer Murders
1997
Casualty
1986
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
A Touch of Frost
1992
New Tricks
2004
The Bill
1984
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Robin Hood
2006
Lovejoy
1986
Van der Valk
1972
Judge John Deed
2001
Sherwood
2022
The Street
2006
Spaced
1999
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Death Valley
2025
The Last Detective
2003
Requiem
2018
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
The Crow Girl
2025
The Pembrokeshire Murders
2021
Belonging
2000
Conviction
2004
Animal Farm
1999
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
2008
Paradise Heights
2002
Morgan's Boy
1984
Real Men
2002
The Royal
2003
Rocket Man
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The Eustace Bros.
2003
Barking!
1998
The Hour of the Pig
1993
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
2013
Protein
2025
The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer
2021
Frankenstein: Legacy
2025
A Bit of Tom Jones?
2009
Real Men
2003
The Last Romantics
1992
Genghis Cohn
1993
The List
2013
Secret Society
2000
Richard III
1991
Phoebe
1985
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Henry VI: House of York
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Pythons on the Mountain
1985
Henry V
1991
Buddha Boy
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Richard II
1991
Towpaths of Glory
2005