Actor Ian Puleston-Davies is famous for his roles in Coronation Street, The Teacher, Silent Witness, The Bay, and now The Responder – but behind every public TV appearance lays a hidden personal battle.
Ian is currently portraying shirker copper Eric in the excellent Martin Freeman police drama, but Corrie fans will know him better as builder Owen Armstrong. But why did he leave the ITV soap, and what other roles is he famous for?
Here’s everything you need to know about The Responder star Ian Puleston-Davies, including who his wife is, if he has children, and his battle with a debilitating health condition.
Who plays Eric in The Responder?
Ian Puleston-Davies portrays policeman Eric in series 2 of The Responder. Eric doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the Liverpool police force, but then no one does in this BBC One drama!
In the first episode Eric is overjoyed when his partner Rachel crashes the car after a tricky response call… Totally playing up his injuries, he tells Rachel that the compensation will pay for his new kitchen!
The Responder series 2 sees the return of Martin Freeman as Chris Carson, a policeman trying to do his best in a pretty grim world. However, he is often forced to break the rules under extreme circumstances.
Nearly separated Chris is trying to go straight. But when DCI Barnes asks him for a favour, he crosses one of Liverpool’s top drug dealers and starts to fall back into bad old ways.
Was Ian Puleston-Davies in The Bay series 4?
Actor Ian Puleston-Davies played Terry McGregor in the cast of The Bay series 4. He joined an epic guest cast, including Happy Valley stars Karl Davies and Joe Armstrong.
Series 4 followed the tragic murder of a mum-of-four Beth Metcalfe in a house fire. TV fans who have followed the career of Ian Puleston-Davies might not have been too surprised to find out he played another villain!
Terry ran a construction business, and set up a fraudulent company to win a crucial contract to build on the Frontierland site that Dean (Joe Armstrong) was also bidding for.
Viewers then discovered that Terry wanted to win the building bid so badly because he knew about the dead body that was buried at Frontierland, and that it would be discovered as soon as the site was dug up.
