Jeff Stewart (actor)

Jeff Stewart
Stewart on the set of The Bill in October 2012
Born	Jeffrey Stewart (1955-10-28) 28 October 1955 (age 61) Aberdeen, Scotland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–present

Jeffrey "Jeff" Stewart (born 28 October 1955) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying police constable Reg Hollis on the ITV drama series The Bill from 1984 to 2008.

Stewart was born in Aberdeen. He and his family moved to Southampton, Hampshire when he was three months old. His father worked in shipyards and then for Fawley Refinery.

Stewart has played numerous roles in television series, including Harry Fellows in Crossroads in 1981 and Dukkha in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda. He played a police constable in Hi-De-Hi! in 1983, the same year "Woodentop" (the pilot episode of The Bill) aired. His character on The Bill, Reg Hollis, is his best known role to date. Reg is mentioned but not seen in "Woodentop", so Stewart's first appearance in the series was in the first regular episode, "Funny Ol' Business - Cops & Robbers". By March 2007, Stewart was the last member of the cast remaining from that first episode.

In 2001, Stewart appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. In 2009, Stewart appeared in the music video for "Black and Blue" by Miike Snow. The video starred him as a reclusive musician with a penchant for creating animatronic performers in his dingy apartment, and presented the long hair and a large beard he had grown in the year since he left The Bill. In 2011, he portrayed a German-Russian man in a Soviet prison in Under Jakob's Ladder. He won a best actor award at the 2011 Manhattan Film Festival for the role. He is often confused with the storyboard artist who also voices characters such as Mr. Tickle in The Mr. Men Show.