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 house in which he was born. The original manuscripts of many of his novels, as well as printers' proofs, first editions, and illustrations from the collection of Dickens's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour; nonetheless, a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled "Dickens and Little Nell", cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Another life-size statue of Dickens is located at Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia. In 2014, a life-size statue was unveiled