The show ran for three series and 20 episodes. He played Neil Burnside, the dour and fiercely protective director of operations for the Secret Intelligence Service, whose character spent as much time infighting with his superiors in Whitehall and his own department as he did battling the KGB. Marsden starred in Yorkshire Television's 1978–1980 Cold War espionage series The Sandbaggers. Marsden has also appeared in guest roles in episodes of The New Avengers (episode " The Tale of the Big Why"), Space: 1999, Only Fools and Horses (episode " Little Problems"), and Tales of the Unexpected (episode " Proof of Guilt"). His prominent television roles include George Osborne in a 1967 adaptation of Vanity Fair and the title role of Arthur Chipping in 1984's Goodbye Mr.
In 2008, Marsden appeared in two productions, Murder on Air and Happy Jack at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. He also played Long John Silver in Treasure Island at London's Mermaid Theatre around Christmas for two years and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre. His appearances include Crispen in The Friends, 1970 Casca and Lucilius in Julius Caesar, 1972 Paul Schippel in Schippel, 1974 Heinrich Krey in The Plumber's Progress, 1975. His preference was for the alternative experimental theatres of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Birmingham over London's commercial theatre. In the early 1960s, Marsden worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and began to accumulate an extensive list of theatrical credits that include everything from Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen to contemporary Soviet playwright Alexander Vampilov. I said no, so he arranged for me to start work at a theatre in Nottingham, and who should be the student assistant manager there but Anthony Hopkins.
Marsden recalled, "Two weeks later, he phoned me up and asked if I'd got a job or an agent. After one argument he poured a bottle of ink down the front of the director's suit. He attempted to unionise the students but was thwarted. Marsden attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and spent four terms there. James's detective novels, and Neil Burnside in the spy drama The Sandbaggers (1979–1980). Roy Marsden (born Roy Anthony Mould 25 June 1941) is an English actor who portrayed Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations (1983–1998) of P. D.
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