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 single day. His favourite actor was Charles Mathews, and Dickens learnt his "monopolylogues", (farces in which Mathews played every character), by heart. Then, having learned Gurney's system of shorthand in his spare time, he left to become a freelance reporter. A distant relative, Thomas Charlton, was a freelance reporter at Doctors' Commons, and Dickens was able to share his box there to report the legal proceedings for nearly four years. This education was to inform works such as "Nicholas Nickleby", "Dombey and Son", and especially "Bleak House"—whose vivid portrayal of the machinations and bureaucracy of the legal system did much