David Horovitch was born on 11 August 1945 and is an English actor, perhaps best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple.
10 Facts About David Horovitch
David Horovitch appeared in the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon as Grand Maester Mellos.
David Horovitch was educated at St Christopher School, a boarding independent school in the town of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
David Horovitch's father was Jewish but atheist and married a non-Jew, and David Horovitch, who is not Jewish, was not brought up in the faith but started learning about the faith in his 40s when he was given a string of Jewish roles.
David Horovitch has played many roles on popular British TV shows in the past 40 years including: Thriller, The New Avengers, Prince Regent, Piece of Cake, Bulman, Hold the Back Page, Boon, Love Hurts, Westbeach, Just William, Drop the Dead Donkey, Peak Practice, Foyle's War, The Second Coming, Deceit and Casualty as well as starring in the little-remembered ITV detective show Bognor.
David Horovitch returned for four Miss Marple Christmas specials.
David Horovitch has made a number of film appearances, including Sergeant Maskell in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, a French scientist in The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission, a Yiddish-speaking character in Solomon and Gaenor, Dr Pavlov in Disney's 102 Dalmatians and Cardinal Conroy in The Nun II.
In 2008, David Horovitch guest-starred in the Sapphire and Steel audio drama Remember Me.
David Horovitch played Dr Price in Mike Leigh's 2014 film Mr Turner.
David Horovitch has made numerous audiobooks, including the 2008 production of Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, and the 2015 production of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.