Simon Rouse

Simon Rouse (born 24 June 1951) is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Detective Chief Inspector, later Superintendent, Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama The Bill. He first appeared on The Bill as Detective Superintendent Jack Meadows, drafted in from the Major Incident Team. The character became a regular from 1992 when he was demoted to Detective Chief Inspector until the show's cancellation in 2010. Rouse was born in Heaton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Prior to The Bill, he had a long career working mainly with the BBC, appearing twice in their Play for Tomorrow strand, a sci-fi offshoot of the Play for Today series. He also guest starred in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda as the deranged Hindle, and played an unnamed character simply credited as "Yizzel's mate" in Carla Lane's Bread in 1986. In 1988 he played Graham Farrell, a business associa...