Pip Torrens

Philip D'Oyly Torrens^[1] (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor.

Pip Torrens
Torrens at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Philip D'Oyly Torrens[1] (1960-06-02) 2 June 1960 (age 65) Bromley, Kent, England
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge Drama Studio London
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present

Torrens portrayed courtier Tommy Lascelles in the Netflix drama The Crown, aristocrat Lord Massen in the HBO series The Nevers, Herr Klaus Starr in Preacher, and held leading roles in Poldark and Versailles. His film appearances include The Danish Girl, The Iron Lady, War Horse and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He has played The Curator in Supermassive Games' Dark Pictures Anthology series of horror video games since 2019, appearing in four entries to date.

Early life and education

Son of the Rev. Robert Harrington Torrens, MA, and descendant of the lawyer and colonial official Henry Whitelock Torrens,^[1][2] Torrens was born in Bromley, Kent, and educated at Bloxham School. He studied English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1981, MA 1987),^[1] and subsequently studied acting at Drama Studio London.^[3]

Career

Torrens's television appearances include Consenting Adults, two episodes of Jeeves and Wooster,^[4] two episodes of Doctor Who ("Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood"),^[5] The Brittas Empire,^[4] Green Wing,^[4] Silk,^[4] The Government Inspector (as John Scarlett), The Last Detective and DI Spencer for a few episodes in The Bill in 2001. He has also appeared in a 2008 series of British television advertisements for First Direct, with Matthew King. He appeared alongside Michael Gambon in a 1992 episode of Maigret.^[4]

In 2011, Torrens appeared in both episodes of an Outnumbered two-part special.^[4] In 2012, he appeared in the first episode of series 8 of Hustle,^[4] as Heinz Zimmermann and also presented new gameshow The Devil's Dinner Party.^[4] Torrens briefly appeared in an episode of Death in Paradise in 2013,^[4] as a museum guide. His film appearances include Tomorrow Never Dies,^[4] as the captain of the fictional HMS Bedford, the 2001 film To End All Wars,^[4] and voicework for Valiant.^[4]

In 2013, Torrens appeared in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.^[4] In November 2014, Torrens played the part of Richard Grenville in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.^[4] In 2017, he began a starring role on American television series Preacher, on which he appeared in 33 episodes as Herr Klaus Helmut Starr.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Oxford Blues	Ian
1986	Lady Jane	Thomas
1987	Little Dorrit	Henry Gowan
1988	A Handful of Dust	Jock
1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Jonathan
	Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale	Gold-cufflinks
1990	Mountains of the Moon	Lt. Hesketh
	Eminent Domain	Anton
1991	The Object of Beauty	Art Evaluator
1992	Patriot Games	Lord North's 1st Aide
1993	The Remains of the Day	Doctor Carlisle
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	Captain (HMS Bedford)
	Incognito	White (defense attorney)
1999	Rogue Trader	Simon Jones
2001	To End All Wars	Lt. Foxworth
	Revelation	Professor Claxton
	The Mystic Masseur	Governor
	All the Queen's Men	British Major
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Netherfield Butler
	Valiant	Lofty (voice)
2007	The Mark of Cain	Colonel Hampton
	Flood	Army Liaison Officer Richardson
2008	Easy Virtue	Lord Hurst
2009	Dorian Gray	Victor
	St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Heathcoat Parker
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Sir Kenneth Clark
	War Horse	Major Tompkins
	Love's Kitchen	Health & Safety Official
	The Iron Lady	Ian Gilmour
	Largo Winch II	Invité Plateau CNBC
2012	Anna Karenina	Prince Shcherbatsky
	Gambit	Savoy Desk Clerk
	Bel Ami	Paul the Butler
	The Scapegoat	George
2013	The Guest	Frank	Short film
	Drone Strike	Wing Commander Ellis
2014	Gemma Bovery	Rankin
	Effie Gray	Royal Academy / Times Journalist
2015	The Danish Girl	Dr Hexler
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Colonel Kaplan
2016	Kids in Love	Graham
2017	Darkest Hour	BBC Producer
2018	Down a Dark Hall	Professor Farley
2019	The Aftermath	General Brook
2024	Joy	Roger Short
TBA	Vindicta	Adnon Svoboda	Post-production
TBA	Savage House	Mr. Black	Post-production
TBA	Wife & Dog		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	The Lenny Henry Show	PC Monkhouse	6 episodes
1989	The Nightmare Years	Major Radford	4 episodes
	Voice of the Heart	Kim Cunningham	Television film
	Arms and the Man	Bluntschli	BBC television play
1991	Chimera	Windeler	3 episodes
	Performance	Nigel Childs	Episode: "Absolute Hell"
1991, 2006	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Major Rich/Jeremy Cloade	Episodes: "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" (1991) and "Taken at the Flood" (2006)
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Howard Carter	Episodes: "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" and "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye"
	Van der Valk	Michael de Groot	Episode: "Still Waters"
	Medics	Jonathan Witley	Episode: "#2.1"
1992–1993	Jeeves and Wooster	Bingo Little	Episodes: "Comrade Bingo" and "Bridegroom Wanted"
1993	Lovejoy	Christian Shotley	Episode: "Fly the Flag"
	To Play the King	Andrew Harding	3 episodes
	Minder	Muldier	Episode: "The Great Trilby"
	Maigret	Chief Commissioner	Episode: "Maigret on the Defensive"
1994	A Dark-Adapted Eye	Chad	2 episodes
	The Brittas Empire	John Rawlinson	Episode: "Brussels Calling"
1995	Kavanagh QC	Miles Petersham	Episode: "Nothing But the Truth"
	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye	Howard Carter	Television film
	Hamish Macbeth	Peter Peterson	Episode: "S1.E1 The Great Lochdubh Salt Robbery"
1995–2007	The Bill	Various	5 episodes
1996	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Michael Quin	2 episodes
	Tales from the Crypt	Gordon	Episode: "About Face"
1997	Crime Traveller	Carter	Episode: "A Death in the Family"
	Bodyguards	Robert Ferguson	6 episodes
	Soldier Soldier	Major Lawrence Brownham	2 episodes
1998	The Unknown Soldier	Major Stephen Phelps	Television film
1999	Murder Most Horrid	News Presenter	Episode: "Elvis, Jesus and Zack"
	Big Bad World	Hugh	Episode: "Be Nice to Posh People"
	Pure Wickedness	Dr. Phil Gold	3 episodes
	Peak Practice	Harry Kenyon	2 episodes
2000	Longitude	Captain Lindsay	TV series
	Lorna Doone	Colonel Kirke	Television film
	Black Cab	James	Episode: "Busy Body"
2001	Office Gossip	Mark Spenser	Episode: "Moving On"
2002	Shackleton	James McIlroy	Television film
	Sunday	Inquiry lawyer	Television film
	Ted and Alice	Dr. Handford	3 episodes
	Believe Nothing	Le Fanu	Episode: "Get Rich Quick"
	Dead Gorgeous	Rex Ballard	Television film
	The Project	MoD Official	Television film
	TLC	Mr. Copperfield	Episode: "Staying Awake"
	Darwin's Daughter	Charles Darwin	Television film
	The Many Lives of Albert Walke	Sam	Television film
2003	At Home with the Braithwaites	Mr. Brondby	Episode: "#4.6"
	Where the Heart Is	Peter Viner - Cardiologist	Episode: "My Way"
	Trial & Retribution	DCS Richard Lawson	Episode: "Suspicion: Part 2"
	Second Nature	Frank	Television film
	Seven Wonders of the Industrial World	Dr. John Snow	Episode: "The Sewer King"
	Charles II: The Power and the Passion	Charles Hart	Episode #1.3
	Gifted	Richard Neilson	Television film
2004	Red Cap	Major Tim Garvey	Episode: "Betrayed"
	Casualty	Tom Price	Episode: "World Gone Wrong: Part 1"
	Messiah: The Promise	DCI Warmseley	2 episodes
	Rosemary & Thyme	Donald Westward	Episode: "Up the Garden Path"
	When I'm 64	Headmaster	Television film
	My Dad's the Prime Minister	Publisher	Episode: "Diaries"
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Noël Coward	Episode: "4:50 from Paddington"
2004–2008	Wire in the Blood	DI Brennan / Harrison	3 episodes
2005	Rome	Lucius Tillius Cimber	Episode: "Kalends of February"
	Broken News	Sam French, Bullet Points Presenter	6 episodes
	The Commander	DCS Les Branton	2 episodes
	A View from a Hill	Squire Richards	Television film
	The Rotters' Club	English Master	Episode: "The Chick and the Hairy Guy"
	The Government Inspector	John Scarlett	Television film
	No Angels	Dr. Templar	Episode: "#2.8"
	The Last Detective	Captain Boyden	Episode: "Towpaths of Glory"
	Ian Fleming: Bondmaker	Noël Coward	Television film
	Class of '76	Supt Flood	Television film
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Olympius	Episode: "The Fall of Rome"
	Green Wing	Neurosurgeon	2 episodes
	The Chatterley Affair	Mervyn Griffith-Jones	Television film
	The Path to 9/11	Paul Kessler	2 episodes
	Rebus	Andrew Hammill	Episode: "Let It Bleed"
	Spooks	Charles Lee	Episode: "5.8"
	Missing	Derek Mailer	2 episodes
	Dresden	Saundby	Television film
	Pinochet in Suburbia	Michael Caplan	Television film
2007	Waking the Dead	Dennis Holland	2 episodes
	Doctor Who	Rocastle	2 episodes
	Lewis	Malcolm Croft	Episode: "Expiation"
	The Bad Mother's Handbook	Doctor Gale	Television film
	The Chase	Hubert Bryce-Jones	Episode: "2.10"
	Consenting Adults	Frances Graham Harrison	Television film
	Silent Witness	Richard Tate	2 episodes
	Miss Austen Regrets	Edward Austen Knight	Television film
2008	Queen Victoria's Men	Charles Greville	Television film
2009	Heartbeat	James Moncrieff	Episode: "Sweet Sorrow"
	Breaking the Mould	Radio Announcer (voice)	Television film
	U Be Dead	Peter Higginson	Television film
	Collision	Deputy Commissioner Fraser	Episode 1
2010	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Edward	Episode 3.1
2010, 2016	Midsomer Murders	Group Captain Jeremy Ford / Fergal Jenner	Episodes: "The Incident at Cooper Hill" (2016) and "Blood on the Saddle" (2010)
2011	The Promise	Major John Arbuthnot	4 episodes
	Outnumbered	Armitage	2 episodes
2011–2014	Silk	HHJ Maikin	4 episodes
	Law & Order: UK	Philip Nevins	5 episodes
2012	Hustle	Heinz Zimmermann	Episode: "Gold Finger"
	Whitechapel	Travis Underwood	Episode: "Case Two (Part 2)"
	The Hollow Crown	Thomas de Mowbray	Episode: "Henry IV, Part 2"
	The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal	MI5 Officer	Television film
	One Night	Mr. Lerner	3 episodes
	Switch	Lord Piermont	Episode: "Summer Solstice Showdown"
	Spy	Crispin	Episode: "Codename: Double Oh"
2013	Yes, Prime Minister	Jeremy Burnham	Episode: "The Poisoned Chalice"
	Death in Paradise	Guide	Episode: "A Deadly Curse"
	Black Mirror	Philip Crane	Episode: "The Waldo Moment"
	The Lady Vanishes	Reverend Kenneth Barnes	Television film
	Father Brown	Geoffrey Bennett	Episode: "The Devil's Dust"
	Breathless	Eric Smallwood	Episode: "#2.1"
2014	Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond	Esmond Rothermere	4 episodes
	Inspector George Gently	Brigadier Phillips	Episode: "Gently with Honour"
	Salting the Battlefield	Jock Calderon	Television film
	Playhouse Presents: Marked	Steve Brash	Television film
2014–2016	Grantchester	Sir Edward Kendall	2 episodes (2014), Christmas Special (2016)
2015	The Heavy Water War	John Skinner Wilson	6 episodes
	Up the Women	Lawrence	Episodes: "Vote", "Train" and "Bowls"
2015–2017	Versailles	The Duke of Cassel	17 episodes
2015–2019	Poldark	Cary Warleggan	29 episodes
2016	War & Peace	Prince Bagration	2 episodes
	Hetty Feather	Reverend Cranbourne	Episode: "Changes"
2016–2019	The Crown	Tommy Lascelles	16 episodes
2017–2019	Preacher	Herr Klaus Helmut Starr	33 episodes
2018	Patrick Melrose	Nicholas Pratt	Miniseries
	Death and Nightingales	Maurice Fairbrother	Episode #1.2
2018–2019	Deep State	William Kingsley	6 episodes
2020	Des	Ivan Lawrence QC	1 episode
	Roadkill	Joe Lapidus	1 episode
2021–2023	The Nevers	Lord Massen	Main cast
	Succession	Peter Munion	4 episodes
2022	Sherwood	Commissioner Charles Dawes	6 episodes
2024	Mr Bates vs The Post Office	Mr Justice Fraser	1 episode
	Renegade Nell	Lord Blancheford	Recurring role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan	The Curator	Voice and motion capture
2020	The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
2021	The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
2022	Elden Ring	Radahn / Varré	Voice
	The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me	The Curator	Voice and motion capture
2023	Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin	Nighthaunt Commander	Voice
2024	Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree	Radahn	Voice