David Schofield

David Schofield was born in 1951, in Manchester, England. He was one of ten children in a working-class family. His first acting experience was at Manchester boy's school at the age of 12. In 1967, he was accepted as student assistant stage manager at a local repertory theatre. He started on the lowest step of the ladder and worked in every department as a prop-maker, sound-man, writer, stage sweeper, waiter and tea-maker, putting in 14-hour days, six days a week. After two seasons, at the age of 19, he became a student of the London academy of Music and Dramatic art, which he left early to pursue his path as a working actor. He made a successful career in television, earning numerous credits in popular TV series such as Footballers' Wives (2002) and Holby City (1999), among many other TV productions. On the big screen, David Schofield is best known as "Falco" in Gladiator (2000), as "McQueen" in From Hell (2001), and as "Mr. Mercer" in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black