Lee Ingleby

Lee David Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is an English film, television and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant/Detective Inspector John Bacchus in the BBC drama Inspector George Gently, as Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the role of Paul Hughes, the father of an autistic child, Joe, in a BBC drama, The A Word. Ingleby was born in Burnley, Lancashire, son of Gordon Ingleby and Susan M Hoggarth, and lived in nearby Brierfield during the early part of his life, attending Edge End High School, as did fellow actor John Simm. Both were taught by the same drama teacher Brian Wellock who encouraged them into the professional theatre. He then studied at Accrington and Rossendale College before progressing to the drama school LAMDA in London.