"The actor John Simm played the detective ""Sam Tyler"" in which BBC TV drama?"
John Simm Simm starred as Detective Inspector Sam Tyler in the 2006 BBC series "Life on Mars", playing a police officer sent back in time to 1973. The show won the Pioneer Audience Award for Best Programme at the 2007 BAFTA TV Awards, Simm was nominated but lost out on the award for Best Actor. His next project, in March 2007, was "The Yellow House" for Channel 4, a biographical drama produced by Talkback Thames, based on the book of the same name by Martin Gayford about the turbulent relationship of artists Vincent van Gogh (Simm) and Paul Gauguin (John Lynch). In
John Simm aired in January 2014, and Simm completed work on the three-part thriller "Prey", in which he plays detective Marcus Farrow. The mini-series began airing on 28 April 2014 on ITV. In February 2014, Simm began filming the BBC America eight-parter "Intruders" in Vancouver, British Columbia. He plays ex-LAPD officer Jack Whelan. The series aired on BBC America in August 2014. In addition to this, he completed the second season of "The Village" in Derbyshire. Later that year Simm played Alec Jeffreys, the man who discovered DNA fingerprinting, in "Code of a Killer", a 2-part drama for ITV. In 2015, he