Bye, Bye Harry

Consultant Harry Harper was shocked by the breakdown of poor Ruth – who was so overworked she attempted suicide.  ‘He decides to publish her diary to heighten awareness of the plight of these doctors says actor Simon MacCorkindale, who this week plays his final scenes as Harry, with the dashing doc in trouble for airing the hospital’s dirty laundry in public.

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The cast of Casualty reckon that their colleague Simon MacCorkindale takes his role as top medic Harry Harper so seriously that they wish he was a real doctor!

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Sad news for all those female fans who tune in to BBC1 on Saturday nights to gaze adoringly at Simon MacCorkindale. After five years playing consultant Harry Harper in Casualty the smoothy actor is hanging up his stethoscope.

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To the rescue

Harry is back to help – to Nathan’s horror!

Harry Harper makes a triumphant return to the A&E department -but not everyone is pleased. His new job as consultant manager means he’s now arch-rival Nathan’s boss!

The medic finally returns following Guppy’s pleas for him to come back to the troubled hospital.

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Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale has spoken for the first time about the moment he became a hit-and-run driver, abandoning a seriously injured cyclist in a remote country lane.

The 55-year-old actor, who plays consultant Harry Harper in the BBC hospital drama, hit John Lilley in a narrow lane near Taunton, Somerset, in 2005.

But instead of stopping to help, he made the split-second decision to continue on to Casualty rehearsals in Bristol.

Half an hour later, his conscience got the better of him and he called an ambulance to the scene.

MacCorkindale then drove to a police station to report the accident.

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Casualty Heartthrob Simon MacCorkindale Opens His Heart To The People

I Still Dream Of Being The World’s No1 Stud*
(*But That’s Breeding Horses, Not Bedding Nurses)

As sexy Casualty consultant Harry Harper, he has set millions of female pulses racing.

But Simon MacCorkindale, who plays the handsome TV hospital rogue, has been happily married to actress Susan George for more than 20 years.

So it’s a shock to hear how he still dreams of being the world’s No1 stud.

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There are fireworks when flirty Ellen goes to Harry’s house to cheer him up

After a tiring day at work, Harry is feeling like a damp squib. But Ellen is determined to put some fireworks into his life – quite literally.

“Harry is feeling grumpy after a hard day, but Ellen’s actions soon put a smile on his face,” says Simon MacCorkindale, who plays the dashing medic.

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Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale was ordered to pay 5,000 to a cyclist who suffered serious head injuries in a hit-and-run car accident.

MacCorkindale, 53 who plays consultant Harry Harper in the hospital drama was also banned from driving for two months after knocking over cyclist John Lilley.

The actor married to seventies screen beauty Susan George- told magistrates he collided with Mr Lilley after sneezing at the wheel of his Mercedes and losing control.

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Simon MacCorkindale:
Why I need time away from Susan

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Simon MacCorkindale is convinced he would have become the Army’s youngest general. He feels his dogged determination, dashing looks and slavish adherence to discipline would have sent him hurtling up the ranks. Indeed, thanks to his father’s contacts, a glittering military career was once guaranteed; instead, he chose to become the nearly man of British cinema, a decision he puts down to an in-built self-destruct button which he presses whenever his life is running smoothly.

To the horror of his family, Simon put showbusiness before the Army, and his role opposite Mia Farrow in Agatha Christie’s Death On The Nile in 1978 won him the Most Promising Film Actor award when he was 26. From there, anything seemed possible. Only now, years later, after disappearing from the movie actor radar, is he acting again, this time as Harry Harper, a dashing doctor in the BBC’s hospital drama, Casualty. He is expected to cause a stir with his character, who is married but has a penchant for sexy girls; a natural extension to the love-rat image from his TV heyday in the 1980s, when he played Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest.

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Wham Blam Pow!

IN  ‘COUNTERSTRIKE’,  ELITE CRIME-BUSTERS TAKE ON  INTERNATIONAL THUGS

It won’t win any awards for plausibility but Counterstrike (CTV, Saturdays) is just what the action fan ordered — a combination of James Bond, Mission: Impossible and Charlie’s Angels with the accent on pyrotechnics. The plot spins on the exploits of an elite strike team of international crime-fighters.

Christopher Plummer gets star billing, but 39-year-old British actor Simon MacCorkindale is the series’ power-source. Although he has plenty of stage experience, MacCorkindale is best known to Canadian audiences for the movies Death on the Nile and The Sword and the Sorcerer, and for TV roles in I, Claudius, Falcon Crest, and Dynasty. He brings a natural credibility and depth of personality to Peter Sinclair, the dashing team leader recruited because of his savvy as Scotland Yard’s youngest-ever inspector.

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Two’s Company

From glamorous actress to high-powered producer, Susan George has proved she’s a movie star to be reckoned with

When Susan George announced that  she was becoming a film producer her greatest fear – not being taken seriously – was evident from the start. Some could not contain their bemused amazement. I mean, everyone knew Susan: blonde, glamorous, seductive. But a film producer? Do me a favour.

So the shoulder-length hair which had been her hallmark for so long was cropped short; well-cut business suits replaced dresses, and designer handbags were dumped in favour of a leather briefcase. Financial men who had been looking forward to meeting Susan George, highly fanciable actress, suddenly discovered they were dealing with a single-minded businesswoman determined to get her own way.

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The Complete Works Of Susan George

Susan George, fed up with being known more for who she’s going out with than the work she’s doing, wants to put the record straight – she’s happily married and has just produced a limited and illustrated edition of her poems

(Mainly a Susan George article)

Susan George sprawls against a sofa, mug of tea by her side, and squints slightly into the glow of the sinking sun. From outside, over the backwater of the Thames that slips by the bottom of the garden, come the muted sounds of dusk in semi-rural Berkshire. Comfortable in jeans and sweatshirt, happy in such a domestic setting, this surely cannot be the sex siren Susan George who paraded her nakedness across the cinema screen and pouted a path through the clubs and bachelors of London and Los Angeles.

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Simon MacCorkindale expected only English gentlemen roles after he also broke into American TV in The Manions of America.

“I considered myself too different for American audiences,” he admits. “As it turned out, that was exactly what the producers of my first series, Manimal, needed. It also plays well for my present role as Jane Wyman’s attorney on Falcon Crest.”

Falcon Crest star and wife mix work & pleasure high above Hollywood

We draw a line at the end of the day, when we change our business into pleasure

VALETS are busy parking Bentleys, Mercedes and limousines. Behind the bulletproof glass doors, crystal chandeliers and Persian rugs adorn the lobby of the tallest building on Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Strip.

High above the dazzling hub of Hollywood live the MacCorkindales — Falcon Crest star Simon MacCorkindale and his wife, British actress Susan George.

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Falcon Crest’ Star Weds Secretly in Paradise

Falcon Crest” star Simon MacCorkindale and actress Susan George shocked guests by showing up at their Hollywood wedding shower — and announcing they were already married!

The happy lovebirds had eloped several days earlier — jetting off to the romantic South Sea island of Fiji where they were wed October 5 by a local minister with only the island’s natives looking on.

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Susan weds in secret

ACTRESS Susan George has secretly married Simon MacCorkindale on the South Sea island of Fiji.

The British screen stars, pictured right, slipped quietly out of Hollywood to wed last week without telling even their closest friends.It is Susan’s first marriage. She once went out with Prince Charles.

Simon, star of the TV soap opera Falcon Crest, was previously married to actress Fiona Fullerton. He and Susan, both 35, had postponed the wedding four times.

Falcon Crest star SIMON MacCORKINDALE (Greg Reardon) and SUSAN GEORGE have surprised their friends by suddenly eloping to the South Pacific. The ceremony was held in the romantic Fijian islands at a tiny historical village, and was performed by an Anglican minister. The groom and bride (a former flame of Prince Charles) plan to have another, quieter ceremony in their native England this Christmas.

Watch it Yanks, Simon’s coming

HOW’S THIS for confidence! That most English of actors Simon MacCorkindale is all set to conquer America—although he admits: “I am not a great talent and I’ll never win an Oscar.”

But being ” a workaholic and a great trier,” he is convinced he’ll succeed. writes TONY PURNELL.

He began his campaign to be a big name on both sides of the Atlantic when he was named promising new actor of 1979 for his part in the Agatha Christie film Death On The Nile.

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