<P> Russell first performed before an audience in 1960 on The Shari Lewis Show, but it was not until 1980 that he had his first real acting job--performing on the London stage as the superintendent in Nobel Prize - winner Dario Fo's satire Accidental Death of an Anarchist, about police corruption in Italy . The reviews were good, and he reprised that role for television in 1983 . After further honing his skills in various British TV productions and a handful of films--including Jute City, The Power of One, The Hawk and Seconds Out--Russell received exposure before international audiences as Caleb Garth in the celebrated BBC miniseries Middlemarch, based on the George Eliot novel of the same name . A year later, he fell in love on the movie screen with Helena Bonham Carter in Margaret's Museum, for which he earned a Genie nomination at the 16th Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role . After more TV roles and another film, Russell played Ralph Fiennes' father in another critically acclaimed film, Oscar and Lucinda . Growing recognition of his acting skills then brought him major roles in four major TV miniseries: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Railway Children and The Mists of Avalon . </P> <P> Standing 6' 6 ", Russell is a familiar and unforgettable face on British television and has appeared in numerous television series including Boys from the Blackstuff, Hope and Glory, Neverwhere, Great Expectations, The Mists of Avalon, Heartburn Hotel, Roughnecks, Monarch of the Glen, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Rockface, and Spaced . Russell has also made appearances in Still Game, Happiness, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Cracker . From 2005 to 2006, Russell played Phil Nail in ITV's Coronation Street . Russell made an appearance in Waterloo Road as Lisa and Lenny Brown's grandfather for one episode, also playing Billy Wilson for two in Shameless . </P> <P> He has appeared as Jock in the third series of the BBC's Jam and Jerusalem, as "Bayard, King of Mercia" in Merlin and in Hotel Babylon as an artist forced to fake his own death when he is in debt . In 2012, he joined the cast of the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones as Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully . </P> <P> In 2016, he joined the cast of Hollyoaks as Billy, brother of established character Jack Osborne </P>

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