Struan Rodger

Struan Rodger is a British actor born on 18 September 1946 who has built a career across film, television, stage, and voice work. He made his Broadway appearance in 2002, performing in Medea.

Rodger's film career began with a brief appearance in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? in 1978. His first substantial film role came in the 1981 Oscar-winning production Chariots of Fire, in which he portrayed Sandy McGrath, the friend and running coach of Eric Liddell. Subsequent film credits include Diamond Skulls (1989), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Madness of King George (1994), The Innocent Sleep (1996), and Stardust (2007).

On television, Rodger is widely recognized for playing Barbara Flynn's husband in the detective series Chandler & Co. He held a recurring role in Rumpole of the Bailey as Detective Inspector Brush, a police detective whom Rumpole regards as routinely abusing the law. His other television appearances span Boys from the Blackstuff, Bergerac, Miss Marple, Maigret, Midsomer Murders, Vera, and Look and Read. He also portrayed Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Highlander: The Series episode "Through a Glass, Darkly." In 2014, Rodger played the Three-Eyed Raven in the Game of Thrones episode "The Children," a role subsequently taken over by Max von Sydow in the sixth season. Rodger additionally provided the voice of the Face of Boe in the Doctor Who episodes "New Earth" and "Gridlock."

In 2009, Rodger appeared in The First Domino at Brighton Festival Fringe and made his video game debut in Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, voicing the con artist Monty Muzzle in the episodes "Muzzled!" and "The Bogey Man," though he was incorrectly credited as "Straun Rogers." From 2011 to 2018, he narrated the annual official films for The Open Championship.