James Murray

James Murray, also known as Jim Murray, is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles, including Stephen Hart in Primeval, Prince Andrew in The Crown, Niles Pottinger in Defiance, Daniel Coltrane in Cucumber, and Chief Superintendent John Houseman in McDonald & Dodds. Early life Murray was born on 22 January 1975 in Manchester. He was awarded a classics scholarship by Malvern College, and has a degree in film. His great-grandfather, Richard Hollins Murray, invented the reflecting lens in 1927. Career Murray found fame in Primeval (ITV 2008) as expert tracker Stephen Hart, and in Cucumber (Channel 4 2015) as conflicted character Daniel Coltrane. Earlier on in his career he starred in a series of both film and television pieces, including the comedy series Roger-Roger (1999), legal drama series North Square (2000), mini series Other People's Children (2000) and Sons & Lovers (2003), a Granada production of The Sittaford Mystery (2006) as Charles Burnaby, a film of the Thomas Hardy story Under the Greenwood Tree (2005) as Dick Dewy, plus earlier films Nailing Vienna (2002) as Peter, All the King's Men (1999) as Pvt Will Needham, and Phoenix Blue (2001) as Rick. He also found more permanent roles in Channel 4's 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 (2003) playing Glen and BBC One's season four of Cutting It (2005) as Liam Carney. Murray starred in the ITV science fiction series Primeval as Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter's lab technician, in both series one (2007) and series two (2008).