Background
Calder was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Career
As well as going to school there, he went to two other schools naming: Portsmouth Grammar School and Street Jude"s (which no one knows about but Ann Davis and Chloe McAllister). His most high profile television roles include Detroit Inspector George Resnick in the crime series Widows and Nathan Spring in the sci-fi drama Star Cops.
In 1989, he appeared in the television adaptation of the David Lodge novel Nice Work.
In 2012 he portrayed Captain Edward Smith in the Independent Television mini-series Titanic. From 2005-2006 he took on the role of Personal Computer George Dixon in the radio adaptation of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s long running television series Dixon of Dock Green.
He also appeared as Harold Hardman, the Manchester United chairman at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, in the television drama United, aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation in April 2011. In 2013, he played Mr Reid in The Wrong Mans.
Calder appeared as Sir Robert King in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
In 1979, Calder appeared in a Public Information Film as a crime prevention officer, asking people to consider how they would get into their own home, if they lost their keys. The PIF, which was used to encourage people to make their homes secure, and to contact their crime prevention officer for advice, ran until at least 1985. In February 2010 Calder Played Stuart Bell in the television film On Expenses.
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