Jack Deam is an English actor. He used his grandfather's name for his stage name. His most notable performance is of the pyromaniac Marty Fisher, who has Tourette syndrome, in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1990, Deam appeared in the Granada TV Soap Opera 'Families' a show about two families one from Cheshire, the other in Australia, notably alongside the then not so well known Jude Law. In 1992 he appeared in a few episodes of Heartbeat as Alan Maskell. He also appeared in the TV mini series "The life and times of Henry Pratt". He played the lead role as older Henry Pratt, little Henry Pratt was played by Andrew Nicholson and young Henry Pratt played by Bryan Dick. In 1993 he played Vinnie, a young soldier for the King's Fusiliers in the award winning British drama Soldier Soldier. He later joined the cast of Clocking Off, written by Paul Abbott. In 1996 he briefly appeared as a policeman in Jimmy McGovern's one-off drama for ITV "Hillsborough", based on the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. 

January 1st, 1972 in Oldham (Age 52)