Performer file
Philip Franks
Philip Franks played Quentin Roka in A Talent for Life (Series 6, 2003). The published cast credits list 1 Midsomer Murders episode.
Other work
Philip Franks also played Charley in The Darling Buds of May and Sergeant Raymond Craddock in Heartbeat. His own biography lists stage work with the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, including Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well.
Cases featuring Philip Franks
A Talent for Life
Philip Franks’s episode premise: A formidable former society beauty discovers a body while fly-fishing and promptly becomes central to the case.
Philip Franks plays Quentin Roka in this Tom Barnaby investigation.
- Fictional setting
- Midsomer Malham
- Investigating team
- DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy
- Episode
- Series 6, Episode 1 (2003)
Filming places in A Talent for Life
Philip Franks’s episode, The Old Fisherman, Shabbington, Buckinghamshire: The riverside pub appears under its own name as Malham Bridge's local. Explore this filming place →
Published episode credits
1 sourced episode as Quentin Roka.