Tom Burke (actor) he played Bentley Drummle in two episodes of BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations". In 2012 he became a regular cast member in the second series of BBC Two's "The Hour" playing the part of journalist Bill Kendall. Since January 2014 he has played Athos on the BBC One series, "The Musketeers", an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers". He also plays Cormoran Strike in the BBC miniseries "Strike" based on J.K. Rowling's detective novels. In 2004 he had his first cinema part in "The Libertine". In 2007 he played an aspiring filmmaker who ends up directing a
Charles Dickens In the same period, Dickens furthered his interest in the paranormal, becoming one of the early members of The Ghost Club. In June 1862, he was offered £10,000 for a reading tour of Australia. He was enthusiastic, and even planned a travel book, "The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down", but ultimately decided against the tour. Two of his sons, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, migrated to Australia, Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales as Member for Wilcannia between 1889 and 1894. On 9 June 1865, while returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan,