Character: Richard Hunter
Actor: Tom Georgeson
Episode: Fifty Ships

Tom Georgeson is not a fan of Richard Hunter, his character in Foyle's War.

"Hunter is a working class lad who went to Oxford. In the 1920s it was good if a working class boy got to grammar school, and very unusual to go to Oxford. So he must have been very bright but he let someone take advantage of him.

"How could he have let this guy get away with what he did? It must be that he has an academic brain that he doesn't know how to use properly!

"What happened really destroyed his life. He is very bitter about it and drinks too much. He's a solitary miserable figure and feels sorry for himself. He is totally different from me and I'm not sure I liked him at all as a character. I'm glad I'm the opposite."

Despite his dislike of Hunter, Tom's experience of Foyle's War was a happy one.

"I've worked with Michael Kitchen before and I enjoyed the filming. It was very relaxed and the crew were very experienced."

Adds Tom: "Richard Hunter is my son's name, strangely enough. His full name is Richard Hunter Georgeson and he's in the business also, as a director, although we have never worked together."

Tom has enjoyed a long and successful career on stage and screen. He starred as tough cop Harry Naylor in Between The Lines, and his other many credits include The Manageress, City Central, Liverpool One and Cause of Death on television, and the films Land Girls, A Fish Called Wanda and Morality Play. He plays a detective inspector in the forthcoming new Poirot films.

October 2003; Publicity Release