Guest-star file · Series 9
Peter Capaldi
as Laurence Barker in Death in Chorus
Doctor Who · The Thick of It
The Midsomer part
Who did Peter Capaldi play?
Laurence Barker is closely involved with the competitive choral society at the centre of Death in Chorus. Capaldi applies his familiar intensity to a world where artistic pride and village rivalry have become dangerously personal.
This overview explains the character's place in the story without identifying the killer or final outcome.
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A brief performer profile.
Peter Capaldi is an actor, writer and director known as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who. He also won an Academy Award for directing the short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
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