Pip Torrens

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Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor.

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.

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Known For

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Colonel Kaplan

Pride & Prejudice

Netherfield Butler

Black Mirror

Philip Crane

The Danish Girl

Dr. Hexler

Darkest Hour

BBC Producer

War Horse

Maj. Tompkins

Tomorrow Never Dies

HMS Bedford Captain

Doctor Who

Rocastle

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Wife & Dog MOVIE	Self
2026	Digger MOVIE	Self
2026	De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge (Film 2) MOVIE	Montgomery
2026	Savage House MOVIE	Mr. Black
2026	Vindicta MOVIE	Adnon Svoboda
2025	Down Cemetery Road TV	Dr. Isaac Wright
2025	The Hack TV	Stuart Kuttner
2024	Joy MOVIE	Roger Short
2024	Renegade Nell TV	Lord Blancheford
2024	Mr Bates vs The Post Office TV	Mr Justice Fraser
2023	Extraordinary TV	Mr. Greenham (voice)
2022	Sherwood TV	Commissioner Charles Dawes
2021	The Nevers TV	Lord Gilbert Massen
2020	Industry TV	Kevin Rawle
2020	Roadkill TV	Joe Lapidus
2020	Des TV	Ivan Lawrence QC
2019	The Aftermath MOVIE	General Brook
2018	Down a Dark Hall MOVIE	Professor Farley
2018	Succession TV	Peter Munion
2018	Patrick Melrose TV	Nicolas Pratt
2017	Darkest Hour MOVIE	BBC Producer
2016	The Crown TV	Tommy Lascelles
2016	Kids in Love MOVIE	Graham
2016	Preacher TV	Herr Starr
2016	War and Peace TV	Prince Bagration
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens MOVIE	Colonel Kaplan
2015	The Danish Girl MOVIE	Dr. Hexler
2015	Versailles TV	Cassel
2015	The BBC at War TV	Self
2015	Poldark TV	Cary Warleggan
2015	The Saboteurs TV	Wilson
2014	Marked MOVIE	Steve Brash
2014	Grantchester TV	Sir Edward Kendall
2014	Gemma Bovery MOVIE	Rankin
2014	Walter MOVIE	Commander Angus Thomas
2014	Salting the Battlefield MOVIE	Jack Calderon
2014	Effie Gray MOVIE	Royal Academy / Times Journalist
2014	Fleming TV	Esmond Rothermere
2013	Up the Women TV	Self
2013	The Guest MOVIE	Frank
2013	The Lady Vanishes MOVIE	Reverend Kenneth Barnes
2013	Yes, Prime Minister TV	Jeremy Burnham
2013	Father Brown TV	Geoffrey Bennett
2013	Drone Strike MOVIE	Commandant Ellis
2012	The Scapegoat MOVIE	George
2012	Anna Karenina MOVIE	Prince Shcherbatsky
2012	The Hollow Crown TV	Mowbray
2012	The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal MOVIE	MI5 Officer
2012	Gambit MOVIE	Desk Clerk
2012	One Night TV	Mr. Lerner
2012	Bel Ami MOVIE	Paul the Butler
2011	The Iron Lady MOVIE	Ian Gilmour
2011	War Horse MOVIE	Maj. Tompkins
2011	Black Mirror TV	Philip Crane
2011	My Week with Marilyn MOVIE	Sir Kenneth Clark
2011	Death in Paradise TV	Guide
2011	Spy TV	Crispin
2011	Love's Kitchen MOVIE	Health & Safety Official
2011	Silk TV	HHJ Makin
2011	The Promise TV	Major John Arbuthnot
2009	St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold MOVIE	Heathcoat Parker
2009	Collision TV	Self
2009	Dorian Gray MOVIE	Victor
2009	U Be Dead MOVIE	Mr. Higginson
2009	Law & Order: UK TV	Philip Nevins
2008	Easy Virtue MOVIE	Lord Hurst
2008	Miss Austen Regrets MOVIE	Edward Austen-Knight
2007	The Mark of Cain MOVIE	Colonel Hampton
2007	Secret Diary of a Call Girl TV	Edward
2007	Consenting Adults MOVIE	Frances Graham Harrison
2007	Flood MOVIE	Army Liaison Officer
2007	The Bad Mother's Handbook MOVIE	Doctor Gale
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire TV	Olympius
2006	The Path to 9/11 TV	Paul Kessler
2006	The Chase TV	Self
2006	Pinochet in Suburbia MOVIE	Michael Caplan
2006	The Chatterley Affair MOVIE	Mr. Mervyn Griffith-Jones
2006	Dresden TV	Saundby
2006	Missing: All Secrets Have a Price TV	Self
2005	A View from a Hill MOVIE	Squire Richards
2005	Broken News TV	Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter
2005	Class of '76 MOVIE	Supt Flood
2005	Class of '76 TV	Supt Flood
2005	Pride & Prejudice MOVIE	Netherfield Butler
2005	Ian Fleming: Bondmaker MOVIE	Noel Coward
2005	Towpaths of Glory MOVIE	Captain Boyden
2005	Doctor Who TV	Rocastle
2005	Valiant MOVIE	Lofty (voice)
2005	The Government Inspector MOVIE	John Scarlett
2005	The Rotters' Club TV	English Master
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple TV	Noël Coward
2004	Green Wing TV	Neurosurgeon
2004	When I'm Sixty-Four MOVIE	Headmaster
2004	Hustle TV	Heinz Zimmermann
2004	The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance MOVIE	Cosimo de'Medici
2003	Charles II: The Power and The Passion TV	Charles Hart
2003	Gifted MOVIE	Richard Neilson
2003	The Commander TV	Self
2003	Red Cap TV	Self
2002	tlc TV	Mr Copperfield
2002	Wire in the Blood TV	Self
2002	The Project MOVIE	MoD Official
2002	Dead Gorgeous MOVIE	Rex Ballard
2002	Believe Nothing TV	Le Fanu
2002	Spooks TV	Charles Lee
2002	The Many Lives of Albert Walker MOVIE	Sam
2002	Sunday MOVIE	Inquiry Lawyer
2002	Shackleton TV	James McIlroy
2001	All the Queen's Men MOVIE	British Major
2001	To End All Wars MOVIE	Lt. Foxworth
2001	The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells TV	Mark Pattison
2001	Waking the Dead TV	Dennis Holland
2001	Messiah TV	DCI Walmsely
2001	The Whistle-Blower MOVIE	Philip Amis
2001	Revelation MOVIE	Professor Claxton
2001	Lorna Doone MOVIE	Colonel Kirke
2000	Lorna Doone TV	Colonel Kirke
2000	Trust MOVIE	Jenkins
2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure MOVIE	Howard Carter (archive footage)
2000	Black Cab TV	James
2000	Rebus TV	Andrew Hammill
2000	Longitude MOVIE	Capt. Lindsay
2000	Longitude TV	Captain Lindsay
1999	Pure Wickedness TV	Dr. Phil Gold
1999	Rogue Trader MOVIE	Simon Jones
1999	Big Bad World TV	Self
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies MOVIE	HMS Bedford Captain
1997	Incognito MOVIE	White (Defense)
1997	Trial & Retribution TV	Self
1997	Bodyguards TV	Robert Ferguson
1997	Midsomer Murders TV	Fergal Jenner
1997	Midsomer Murders TV	Group Captain Jeremy Ford
1997	Crime Traveller TV	Self
1996	Silent Witness TV	Self
1995	Hamish Macbeth TV	Peter Peterson
1995	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye MOVIE	Howard Carter
1995	Kavanagh Q.C. TV	Miles Petersham
1994	A Dark Adapted Eye TV	Chad
1993	To Play the King TV	Andrew Harding
1993	The Remains of the Day MOVIE	Doctor Richard Carlisle
1993	Peak Practice TV	Harry Kenyon
1992	Monkey Boy MOVIE	Windeler
1992	Patriot Games MOVIE	First Aide
1992	Heartbeat TV	James Moncrieff
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV	Howard Carter
1992	Maigret TV	Self
1991	Murder Most Horrid TV	News Presenter
1991	Absolute Hell MOVIE	Nigel Childs
1991	Chimera TV	Windeler
1991	The Object of Beauty MOVIE	Art Evaluator
1991	Eminent Domain MOVIE	Anton
1991	The Brittas Empire TV	John Rawlinson
1990	Jeeves and Wooster TV	Bingo
1990	Mountains of the Moon MOVIE	Lt. Hesketh
1989	Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale MOVIE	Gold Cufflinks
1989	Tales from the Crypt TV	Gordon
1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising MOVIE	Jonathan
1989	Arms and the Man MOVIE	Captain Bluntschli
1989	Voice of the Heart MOVIE	Kim Cunningham
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot TV	Major Rich
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot TV	Jeremy Cloade
1988	A Handful of Dust MOVIE	Jock Grant-Menzies
1987	Little Dorrit MOVIE	Henry Gowan
1987	The Lenny Henry Show TV	Self
1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries TV	Michael Quin
1986	Lady Jane MOVIE	Thomas
1986	Lovejoy TV	Christian Shotley
1984	Oxford Blues MOVIE	Ian
1979	Minder TV	Muldier
1972	Van der Valk TV	Michael De Groot
1971	A Ghost Story for Christmas TV	Squire Richards
	Rokeby Venus MOVIE	Nicholas
	Mercenary: An Extraction Series TV	Self
	WAR TV	St John Smallwood

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