who played heath barkley?
Lee Majors
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 Trevor Munson conceived the character of Mick Angel in 2004 and spent two and a half years writing a novel featuring the character . The story was adapted into a feature film script , and Bruce Willis was considered as a possibility for the lead role . The script was shown to Nina Tassler at CBS , who paired Munson with Ron Koslow , creator of Beauty and the Beast , to rewrite the script as a television series . The series was titled Twilight , and Koslow and Munson wrote the pilot , which Warner Bros. Television initially commissioned as a presentation lasting 14 – 20 minutes in January 2007 . Joel Silver and Gerard Bocaccio were hired to be executive producers on the project under the former 's production banner , Silver Pictures , in the same month . Alex O 'Loughlin and Shannon Lucio were cast in the presentation , and Rod Holcomb was hired as director . 

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 The formal casting process began in February 1995 , though some of the actors met with Thompson the previous year to help her conceptualise the script . Lee eventually cast all but one of them : Hugh Grant ( as Edward Ferrars ) , Robert Hardy ( as Sir John Middleton ) , Harriet Walter ( as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood ) , Imelda Staunton ( as Charlotte Jennings Palmer ) , and Hugh Laurie ( as Mr. Palmer ) . Amanda Root had also worked with Thompson on the screenplay , but had already committed to star in the 1995 film Persuasion . Commenting on the casting of Laurie , whom she had known for years , Thompson has said , " There is no one [ else ] on the planet who could capture Mr. Palmer 's disenchantment and redemption so perfectly , and make it funny . " 

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 Edge of Darkness was an early role for Ian McNeice , who played Harcourt . He went on to act in a wide variety of film and television parts including The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain ( 1995 ) , Ace Ventura : When Nature Calls ( 1995 ) and Frank Herbert 's Dune ( 2000 ) , as well as regular roles in Doc Martin ( 2004 – present ) , Rome ( 2005 – 2007 ) and regular appearances as Winston Churchill in the BBC 's revived Doctor Who . 

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 Besides being the Usher , Brother Justin is also an Avataric Creature of Dark . His spiritual presentation in the series , the Tattooed Man , was portrayed by Don Swayze . Show creator Daniel Knauf saw in Brother Justin " one of the most complex devils " , and envisioned Christopher Walken to play him when he wrote the first draft of the show . Knauf originally designed Brother Justin as a preacher far along in his career as well as a recurring instead of a regular character , " much more evolved towards the dark side . " An early draft of Carnivàle gave Brother Justin 's real name as Lucius Crowe , a radio preacher who advocated ethnic hatred , especially for Gypsies and carnival folk . It also mentioned Brother Justin joining " The Order of the Knights of Jericho " between 1921 and 1923 and becoming its head in 1926 . The completion of the construction of his " Temple of Jericho " was set in Nebraska in 1928 . At the series ' start initially projected to occur in 1930 , the character had already gathered a great army of followers through his " Church of the Air " radio sermons . 

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 Each named division has its own title card that appears before each sketch ( or group of sketches ) set in that era or civilisation , along with a short introductory animation featuring a period @-@ appropriate character . Throughout each sketch , small pop @-@ up signs are used to affirm the truth ( or otherwise ) of any particularly implausible @-@ seeming concepts mentioned onscreen . The live @-@ action material is intercut with short animated sketches , quizzes and interludes with puppet " host " Rattus Rattus ( performed by John Eccleston ) , who addresses the viewer directly as a presenter , commenting on and clarifying the factual basis behind the humour . 
