My Take
Tim McInnerny will forever be Lord Percy and then Captain Darling to anyone raised on Blackadder, and what a gift those roles are. I love that he played the preening idiot Percy early, then reinvented himself as the buttoned-up, doomed Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth, whose final scene going over the top still lands like a punch. That range, broad comedy to genuine pathos, marks a real actor. He has done plenty of serious stage and screen work since, but the Blackadder years are comfort television of the highest order. Few people have made me laugh and then quietly gutted me in the same series.
Overview
Timothy L. McInnerny ( MAK-in-UR-nee; born 18 September 1956) is a British actor. He is notable for playing Lord Percy Percy in The Black Adder (1983), and Blackadder II (1986); As the Scarlet Pimpernel in Blackadder the Third (1987), Captain Kevin Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and returned to play Archdeacon Darling, the Duke of Darling, and le Duc de Darling in Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999).
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tim McInnerny
- Name (Japanese)
- ティム・マッキナリー
- Reading
- てぃむ・まっきなりー
- Born
- September 18, 1956 (age 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Cheadle Hulme, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Wadham College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.