Schaal portrayed the warehouse manager Glynn, Taffy in Ricky Gervais' mockumentary comedy series
The Office and the character
Terry Cartwright in the hit comedy series
The Inbetweeners. Schaal’s many television credits include
Missing,
Casualty,
The Wrong Door,
Beautiful People,
Hancock and Joan,
Ashes to Ashes,
The IT Crowd,
Deceit,
Doc Martin,
Peak Practice,
Silent Witness,
Hustle, Lead Balloon,
Dangerfield, a cameo in the 2005 series of
The Basil Brush Show. More recently, Schaal has appeared in
Veep,
Fearless, playing Brunsden for a season in
Hetty Feather,
Ghosts,
Victoria and
Britannia. His film credits include
Kidulthood,
Mr. Nobody,
Clubbed, and
Dirty Weekend. In 2008, he provided the voice for Mad-Dog "The Strangler" McGraw in the action role-playing video game
Fable II. Schaal has also appeared as Norm,
Shirley Carter's seedy landlord, in
EastEnders. He played troubled father Tom Hargreaves in
Grange Hill. Other notable credits include
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence,
Relative Values, and football hooligan film
I.D. Schaal also played Eric in British gangster film
Down Terrace. Schaal wrote the short films ''Poppy's Present
(directed by Chris Jury) and Half Time
(directed by Duncan Roe). He also co-wrote the play Reality Chokes
and appeared in it as Rob, and directed a production of the play at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. Other writing credits include the plays Shame
, No Hiding Place
, The Legacy of Colonel Ash
, and Baby Blue''. In 2012, Schaal wrote and directed the play
Brotherly Love for The Real London Ensemble at Pentameters Theatre. He then appeared in English soap
Hollyoaks in September 2013, playing the role of Ken, who is falsely accused of sexually interfering with
Robbie Roscoe (
Charlie Wernham). Schaal and Wernham both previously co-starred in
The Inbetweeners. Schaal has worked extensively in Canada and the United States on
The Strain filming in Toronto with David Bradley,
Frontier filming in Newfoundland with Alun Armstrong and Zoe Boyle and ''
You're the Worst filming in L.A. opposite Chris Geere and Aya Cash. Schaal also played Colonel Gubbins in the film A Call to Spy'' filming in Philadelphia and playing opposite Stana Katic and Linus Roache. In March 2021, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera
Doctors as
Colin Turner and later in the year, appeared as police officer DS Foden in three episodes of
EastEnders. In 2022 Schaal co-wrote the feature film
Back to Archway with Matt Bartlett and
Heavenly Waters with writer/producer Kim Leggatt. Schaal is a lifelong supporter of
West Ham United. == References ==