Character: Assistant Commissioner Alistair Rose
Actor: Corin Redgrave
Episode: The Funk Hole
On secondment to the Home Office and Ministry of Home Security. Rose is not Foyle's greatest fan and is easily persuaded by Chief Inspector Collier that Foyle is guilty of sedition. It is on Rose's orders therefore, that Foyle is suspended from duty and investigated.
Corin Redgrave makes a welcome return to Foyle's War, playing police chief Rose.
"Rose appeared in a film last year, The Funk Hole, and he is Foyle's boss. It's an interesting relationship. I like it because it's scratchy and prickly which makes for good screen drama. He winds up Foyle a bit and you get to see a reaction from the private Foyle, who usually holds in all his feelings and emotions. So it's good in that respect.
"I didn't know Michael Kitchen before but now I have got to know him well, but I think we only ever meet in Second World War costume!"
Rose orders Foyle to drop his other investigations in order to keep an eye on communist activist Raymond Carter (Peter Capaldi), who is visiting Hastings.
"Rose is clearly a man with a sense of duty and even a code of honour you might say. But when his code of honour comes into conflict with his anxieties about his family, they get the better of him and his code of honour cracks.
"I don't particularly like him as a character. I wouldn't want to spend time with him but he is good to play. When you play someone like that, you have to remember that his mother loved him, and he cannot be all bad. And I presume that he is loved by two people at the golf club who stand him drinks at the end of the game."
Adds Corin: "I hope that he makes a third appearance and that he will be redeemed. I think an act of heroism on a deathbed is called for, perhaps he could rescue an old lady who is rescuing a cat in a perilous position! Seriously though, I love the series and we never miss it in our house. I always enjoy playing in that period and I think the designers and directors in Foyle's War get it spot on."
Corin is the father of actress Jemma Redgrave, who appeared in Greenlit's thriller The Swap, and the brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. "I am really proud that Jemma is doing so well," he says.
While filming Foyle's War, Corin appeared at the Lichfield Garrick in Resurrection and The Recruiting Officer, which he also co-directed. He has since appeared in King Lear for the RSC, taking the monumental leading role from June to September at the Theatre Royal, Stratford. He has also co-directed plays with Trevor Nunn for the Royal National Theatre.
Corin's other screen roles include Rylands in Trial and Retribution, Spooks, The King Must Die, Peter Ackroyd's London, Waking The Dead, Bertie and Elizabeth, The Forsyte Saga, Shackleton and The Ice House.