Performer file
David Bamber
Yes — David Bamber played John Starkey in Dead Letters (Series 9, 2006).

David Bamber’s Midsomer roles
David Bamber has three distinct guest characters in the supplied Midsomer cast credits. He plays John Starkey in Dead Letters, Anthony Prideaux in The Black Book and Daniel Fargo in A Dying Art. These are different fictional people, each attached to a separate investigation. The episode links below keep the parts in their series and year contexts, with a published cast source for the actor-to-character connection.
Those credits make a useful three-case viewing route across changing Midsomer settings. Begin with one premise, watch the full investigation, and then compare how the next story introduces a different character played by the same actor. That is the Casebook’s suggested approach to returning performers, not a claim that the parts share a biography or know one another. The short case descriptions below use the existing episode premises without assigning unsupported actions or motives to Bamber’s characters. Open the individual case for its other actors, filming places and marked solution; the role list remains a casting reference that can be read safely before watching.
The cases in context
Dead Letters
David Bamber as John Starkey · Series 9, Episode 2 (2006).
Oak Apple Week revives a festival-queen contest after eight years, and a body in the stream brings back faces from an earlier case.
DCI Tom Barnaby investigates with DC Ben Jones. Filming places for Dead Letters →
The Black Book
David Bamber as Anthony Prideaux · Series 12, Episode 2 (2009).
A rediscovered Victorian landscape sells for £400,000 before its former owner is killed and another painting disappears.
DCI Tom Barnaby investigates with DS Ben Jones. Filming places for The Black Book →
A Dying Art
David Bamber as Daniel Fargo · Series 18, Episode 4 (2016).
The opening of a sculpture park is followed by murder, an explosive inheritance announcement and questions about who created its art.
DCI John Barnaby investigates with DS Charlie Nelson. Filming places for A Dying Art →
Published episode credits
3 sourced episodes as John Starkey, Anthony Prideaux, Daniel Fargo.
John Starkey
in Dead Letters
Published cast evidence ↗Anthony Prideaux
Published cast evidence ↗Daniel Fargo
in A Dying Art
Published cast evidence ↗