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Patrick Mower (born 12 September 1938), whose original name was Patrick Archibald Shaw, is an English actor well known for his various television and occasional film roles, often as a detective or secret agent and more recently as Rodney Blackstock in ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', a role he has played since 2000. ==Life== Mower was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire to a Welsh father and English mother. In his 2007 autobiography, Mower states that he believed for years that his year of birth was 1940, but later discovered that his birth was not registered and he was born on 12 September 1938 (On the IMDb.com website it was still listed as ''"1940"'' as of 2014).〔Patrick Mower, ''Patrick Mower: My Story'' (John Blake Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84454-447-9〕 In addition, several reference books on film and television, including ''Who's Who On the Screen'' (1983) and ''Who's Who on Television'' (1996), give Mower's town of birth as Pontypridd, South Wales, instead of Oxford. In 2007 Mower took part in the BBC Wales programme ''Coming Home'' about his Welsh family history. He attended Southfield Grammar School in Oxford,〔(Daily Mail: "I don’t need to act in Emmerdale - I’m just reliving my own past, says Patrick Mower" )〕 and after first training as an engineering draughtsman at the (Steel Co. Ltd. ) Cowley plant, he graduated from RADA. He first came to prominence as an actor in the spy series ''Callan'' in the early 1970s. He went on to appear as DCI Tom Haggerty in ''Special Branch'' alongside George Sewell, and Det. Supt. Steve Hackett in the police series ''Target'', and featured in one of the last ''Carry On'' films, ''Carry On England''. Many television roles have included guest appearances in ''Jason King'', ''Space: 1999'', ''UFO'', ''Minder'', ''The Sweeney'' and ''Bergerac'' (as Eddie St.Pierre). He was a regular panelist on the murder mystery programme ''Whodunnit?''. He currently stars as Rodney Blackstock in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. For seven years Mower was the partner of the actress Suzanne Danielle.〔(I don’t need to act in Emmerdale - I’m just reliving my own past, says Patrick Mower ) dated 1 September 2007, online at dailymail.co.uk〕〔Robert Ross, ''The Carry on Companion'' (2002), p. 127〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Mower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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