Philip Bretherton is an English actor best known for his role as Alistair Deacon in the British television series As Time Goes By. Bretherton was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied English and drama at the University of Manchester, where he decided to become an actor. Bretherton appeared in "Rumpole of the Bailey" in "The Barrow Boy" as Hugo Shillingford in November 1988 and made a brief appearance as "Rod" in Coronation Street also in 1988. He then returned as "Robert Weston" in 1991, and again as "Ian Davenport" in 2004. Bretherton appeared in Casualty as Andrew Bower, Footballer's Wives as Stefan Hauser, New Tricks as Doug Standeven. He also appeared in an episode of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, "The Problem of Thor Bridge" in 1990 as Mr. Joyce Cummings Q.C. He has appeared in Series 1 of Murder in Suburbia, as Phillip Whitmore. He further appeared in the episode "Last Seen Wearing" of the television series Inspector Morse in the role of French teacher David Acum. As a young man Bretherton was in an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple: "At Bertram's Hotel", playing the character Detective Inspector Campbell. 

May 30th, 1955 in Preston (Age 69)