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Melody Anderson and Simon MacCorkindale in Manimal (1983)

Melody Anderson, Simon MacCorkindale, and Glynn Turman in Manimal (1983)

Stanley Lebor, Simon MacCorkindale, and Kathryn Leigh Scott in Hammer House of Horror (1980)

Simon MacCorkindale in Relic Hunter (1999)

Simon MacCorkindale and Kathryn Leigh Scott in Hammer House of Horror (1980)

Simon MacCorkindale in Hammer House of Horror (1980)

Simon MacCorkindale and T.P. McKenna in Beasts (1976)

Simon MacCorkindale and Jane Wymark in Beasts (1976)

Bette Davis, David Niven, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov, Jon Finch, I.S. Johar, Simon MacCorkindale, and Jack Warden in Death on the Nile (1978)

Morgan Fairchild and Simon MacCorkindale in Falcon Crest (1981)

Bette Davis, David Niven, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov, Jon Finch, I.S. Johar, Simon MacCorkindale, and Jack Warden in Death on the Nile (1978)

David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov, and Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis, David Niven, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov, Jon Finch, Simon MacCorkindale, and Jack Warden in Death on the Nile (1978)

David Niven, Lois Chiles, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov, and Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Lois Chiles and Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, and Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Simon MacCorkindale in La Femme Nikita (1997)

Simon MacCorkindale in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)

Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Mia Farrow and Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile (1978)

Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Simon MacCorkindale, Fernando Rey, and Dominique Sanda in Cabo Blanco (1980)

Simon MacCorkindale and Yvette Mimieux in Obsessive Love (1984)

Ralph Arliss, Barbara Kellerman, Simon MacCorkindale, and John Mills in Quatermass (1979)

Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, the light-haired, aristocratically handsome Simon MacCorkindale's first career choice was to follow in his Air Force pilot father Peter's bootsteps by joining the Air Training Corps., but his deteriorating eyesight forced him to choose an alternative vocation. Taking drama classes following high school graduation, he attended the highly prestigious Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire in the late 60s. He subsequently put in much time on the repertory theatre stage, which culminated in a West End debut appearance in the highly acclaimed production of "Pygmalion" with Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg in 1974. Simon later appeared in several heralded TV miniseries productions such as I, Claudius (1976) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977).

His major breakthrough in film came with the role of the charming and cunning shipboard suspect in the all-star whodunnit Death on the Nile (1978), with similar shady roles in such films as The Riddle of the Sands (1979) keeping the momentum going. Hollywood became an option for him in the 80s and he found his patrician good looks well suited for TV, with series roles ranging from soap operas (Falcon Crest (1981)) to adventures (Manimal (1983)). Since then, Simon has delved into stage projects featuring him as both director and actor, more notably in "Macbeth" and "The Merchant of Venice". Much of the last decade was spent starring as a doctor in the British TV series Casualty (1999).

Divorced during his early career from actress Fiona Fullerton, he subsequently married Brit actress Susan George and produced a few of her films. They also raised Arabian horses together. He focused for a time as a producer/director/writer on a variety of personal projects, but has since concentrated again on performing. Simon lost his over four-year-old battle with bowel cancer in October 2010.

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