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Dennis Lawson Bleak House, Star Wars, Robin Hood etc.

Lawson began his acting career with a small role in a 1969 stage production of The Metamorphosis in London's West End. and has since starred in television dramas such as The Merchant of Venice (1973) opposite Laurence Olivier as Shylock, Rock Follies (1976) and Dead Head (1986). He played X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles in all three original Star Wars movies, and later reprised the role, in voiceover form, for the Nintendo GameCube game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2. He has appeared often on the West End stage, most notably in 527-show 1983-1984 run of the musical Mr. Cinders at the Fortune Theatre.^[3] In 1999, he directed a production of "Little Malcolm & His Struggle Against the Eunuchs" - first at the Hampstead Theatre before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. The production starred his nephew Ewan McGregor in the lead role of Malcolm Scrawdyke

He appeared on an episode of Loose Ends hosted by Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4 (10 December 2005), during which his cell phone rang. In 2005, he played the leading role of John Jarndyce in the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, receiving an Emmy nomination.

In 2007, he portrayed Peter Syme in the BBC One drama serial Jekyll, a modern version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.^[4] Lawson also appeared as Captain "Dreadnought" Foster in one of ITV's dramatisations of C.S. Forester's Hornblower - The second episode in the series, "The Examination for Lieutenant". He appeared in Robin Hood in episode six, "For England!", in which he played the Sheriff of Winchester. He also appeared in the West End playing the character of Georges in the revival of the musical hit La Cage Aux Folles. No stranger to musical theatre Lawson previously starred in the London revival of Pal Joey.

He starred as the lead in Above Their Station a sitcom for the BBC written by Rhys Thomas about Community Support Officers; it was made as a pilot but never commissioned only being shown as a one-off special.^[5] Lawson appeared alongside Academy Award nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter in the BBC Four movie based on the life of Enid Blyton, playing Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who becomes Blyton's second husband. In July 2009 Lawson appeared as Alexander Fleming in a BBC Four drama called Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin alongside Dominic West. Lawson played the part of Alice's grandfather in ITV1's supernatural crime thriller Marchlands which was shown in February 2011.

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