Patrick Mower is an English actor who has portrayed the role of Rodney Blackstock in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale since 2000. As well as portraying Rodney, Mower has appeared in various films and television series, including Swizzlewick, The Devil Rides Out, Callan, and Special Branch.
What did Patrick Mower play in?
As a change of pace, he played Edmund in a schools production of King Lear (ITV, 1974). He has claimed to have very nearly played James Bond.
Was Patrick Mower in The Avengers?
He passed through The Avengers (ITV, 1966), Public Eye (ITV, 1966), and both Department S (ITV, 1969) and Jason King (ITV, 1971).
Mower first came to prominence in the early 1970s, as the ruthless government assassin James Cross in the ITV spy series Callan. He then appeared as DCI Tom Haggerty in Special Branch, Det. Supt. Steve Hackett in the police series Target, and featured in one of the last Carry On films, Carry On England.
In the late 1960s, at the age of 28, Mower auditioned and was considered for the role of James Bond in the James Bond franchise. However, he was told that he was too young.