Background
Reeves was born in Sunderland, County Durham, and moved to Scotland in 1945.
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His television roles include The Sweeney (1975), Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Manitoba (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of Our Lives (1986),, Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993), the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998), EastEnders (2003), A Touch of Frost (2003) and Skins (2008). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough. In 2006 he starred in the British Broadcasting Corporation docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster.
He starred as Robert Henderson in British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland"s drama River City.
He appeared as a retired police superintendent in episode 3, "Sorrow"s Child", of television drama, Southcliffe. His film roles include Ulysses, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Day at the Beach, The Eagle Has Landed, Hidden Agenda, a major role as Colonel Munro in the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the first Judge Dredd film (1995), The Acid House and Beautiful Creatures.
In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas"s film Solid Air.
