Billy Hartman (born 1957) is a Scottish

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, well known for playing the part of

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's ''

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'' from 1995 until his character was killed off in 2011 after 16 years.

Career

Together with ''Emmerdale'' co-stars

Steve Halliwell Stephen Harold Halliwell (born 21 March 1946) is an English actor, known for portraying the role of Zak Dingle in the ITV (TV channel), ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', which he has played since 1994. Life and career Halliwell was born in Bury, L ...

and Alun Lewis, he was a member of UK 1990s

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trio

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, who had a UK hit single "

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" in November 1996. He also played a small role in the film '' Highlander''. He played the part of Dougal MacLeod, cousin of Connor McLeod. Under the name GBH, Hartman was the host of the rock 'n' roll revival television show '' Oh Boy'' in 1979. Hartman also starred in the comedy series ''

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s Madhouse in the early 1980s. Hartman played a teenager in 1980s American horror film ''

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''. Hartman also appeared as Isaac Talentire in the original west end production of

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's musical ''

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.'' Billy played “Billy” in Minder Series 4, Ep9 - Windows. In 1993 he appeared in

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playing Superintendent Greenall of the major incident team. Hartman appeared as Dave Slade, whose dog was attacking sheep, in the 1994 ''

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'' episode "Wild Thing". Series 4 episode 1. In 1994 Hartman played probation officer Dave Cowden in A Touch of Frost Minority of One series 2 episode 01 On 26 October 2013, Hartman played the role of Graham O'Reilly in ''

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''. 30 July 2019, he played the part of a crooked jeweller in Keeping Faith.(2nd Series, episode 2 of 6, BBC1) The character was unnamed in the credits.

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* Living people Scottish male television actors Scottish male soap opera actors Place of birth missing (living people) Scottish male film actors 1957 births {{UK-tv-actor-stub