English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family. Lindsay first came to prominence as the cockney layabout Jakey Smith in the ITV comedy series Get Some In !, and he appeared in the fourth series of the BBC sitcom The Good Life. He was then given the starring role as incompetent revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the BBC sitcom Citizen Smith. He followed this with roles in a number of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions, including Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and as Edmund in King Lear opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in 1983. Lindsay was the original choice for the lead role in the drama Cracker, but turned the part down as he didn’t want to become too associated with heavyweight, darker drama characters. He later appeared as Fagin in the 1999 ITV Oliver Twist miniseries. In October 2005 he starred in an ITV drama series Jericho, about a Scotland Yard detective investigating murder and kidnapping in London’s Soho in the 1950s. In January and February 2006, he appeared as Sneath in two loosely linked Stephen Poliakoff dramas, Friends and Crocodiles and Gideon’s Daughter, shown on BBC One. He was the only actor to appear in both productions.
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