Ian Mercer

Ian Mercer (born 1961 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English actor. On leaving school Mercer trained as an electrical engineer but decided to become an actor when he became an assistant stage manager at the Oldham Coliseum in 1979. His first television appearance was as a butcher in the film Blue Money in 1982.

Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as Bent, Spend Spend Spend, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, Stop The Children's Laughter, Welcome Home, Romeo and Juliet, The Fancy Man, The York Realist, Beauty and The Beast and Revengers Tragedy.

His television and film acting credits include leading roles in Starting Out, (1982), a series made by ATV for schools and written by Grazyna Monvid, Coronation Street (as Gary Mallett and Peter Jackson), Shackleton (with Kenneth Branagh), Heartbeat, The Monocled Mutineer, A Touch of Frost, Cracker, Common As Muck, Peak Practice, New Tricks and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (with Russell Crowe). In 2009 he appeared in an episode of Doctors and two episodes of Waking The Dead. He appeared as Blackbeard's chief zombie henchman in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. During August and September 2015 he returned to Doctors playing the recurring role of Andy Weston in an ongoing sub-plot.

Ian Mercer (cricketer)

Ian Pickford Mercer (30 May 1930 – May 2004) was an English cricketer. Mercer was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Oldham, Lancashire.

Mercer made his debut for Norfolk in the 1964 Minor Counties Championship against Cambridgeshire. Mercer played Minor counties cricket for Norfolk from 1964 to 1972, which included 74 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. He made his List A debut against Hampshire in the 1965 Gillette Cup. He made 3 further List A appearances, the last coming against Middlesex in the 1970 Gillette Cup. In his 4 List A matches, he scored 81 runs at an batting average of 20.25, with a high score of 31.

In 1965, he made a single first-class appearance for the Minor Counties cricket team against the touring South Africans. In this match, he was dismissed for a duck by Jackie Botten, while in their second-innings he scored a single run before being dismissed by Atholl McKinnon.

He died sometime in May 2004 in North Walsham, Norfolk.