{"id":40448,"date":"2010-11-14T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:29:56","slug":"graham-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/graham-mctavish\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39463\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/21\/39438-new-line-issues-statement-about-hobbit-boycott\/graham-mctavish\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39483\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/21\/39468-meet-your-hobbit-cast\/grahammctavish\/\"><\/a>Graham McTavish (born 1961) is a British television actor.<\/p>\n<p>He has played the character Warden Ackerman in Red Dwarf in five episodes of series 8. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Casualty, Jekyll, The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood. He also played the ill-tempered Mercenary Commander Lewis in Rambo, had a role as Desmond\u2019s drill sergeant in the fourth season of Lost, starred in Ali G Indahouse as a Customs Officer and played a Russian pirate in NCIS. He played Ferguson in 4 episodes of season 4 of Prison Break. He has also starred in the film Green Street 2 which was released on 23rd March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>McTavish provided the voice and motion capture work for the evil psychopath war criminal Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the voice of the main protagonist Dante Alighieri in Dante\u2019s Inferno, Restoration leader Commander Lucius in the Shadow Complex video game, and the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron. He played Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Novakovich in the eight season of 24. 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