Steven Hartley (born in 1960 in Shipley, West Yorkshire) is a British actor, best known for playing Superintendent Tom Chandler in The Bill and Matthew Jackson in EastEnders from 1987-1989. Hartley trained at the London Academy of music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) Hartley was an amateur boxer for York and Yorkshire in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and turned to labouring jobs on a building site when acting jobs began to dry up in the 1990s. He was interviewed for the role of James Bond in 1985. Steven lives with and is engaged to Actress Abby Francis. He is also a committed marathon and half marathon runner with the TV Times Leukaemia research team
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Filmography
- Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992 opposite Marlon Brando and Catherine Zeta Jones
- A Dog Of Flanders with Jon Voight
- Final Warning with Jon Voight.
- Il Giovane Toscanini AKA Young Toscanini.
- Split Second opposite Rutger Hauer
- Sharman with Clive Owen 1996
- Holby City
- Where the Heart Is
- Rumble TV
- Press Gang
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
- Married with Children (See: England Show)
- Pie in the Sky
- Doctors (2004)
- Paul Schrader's The Walker (as Robbie Kononsberg alongside Woody Harleson Kristen Scott Thomas and Willem Defoe). (2006)
- Strictly Confidential (2006) with Suranne Jones
- Casualty BBC TV
- The Bill (as Superintendent Tom Chandler)
- EastEnders from 1987-1989 (as Matthew Jackson)
Theatre
- Sam Mendes' production of Oliver!' in 1996 (as Bill Sykes)
- Insignificance for director Rupert Goold ('The ballplayer' opposite Gina Bellman)
Voice overs
- Currently he is one of the voices heard on the TalkSPORT radio station.
