Maurice Roëves (born 19 March 1937 in Sunderland) is an English born actor raised in Glasgow, Scotland.
Some of his many television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of Our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003).
In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster.
He is currently starring as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City.
His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000).
Roëves is notable for being one of the few actors to appear in both the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises.
