Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep6 – What’s Love Got to Do with It First Aired: 19 October 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Roxanne struggles to cope with the pressures of being a working single mother – with potentially grave consequences. Meanwhile, Duffy and Comfort are surprised to discover they both have an admirer, and Dillon competes with Simon for Heather’s attention, clouding his professional judgement in the process.
Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep5 – What Little Girls Are Made Of First Aired: 12 October 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Heather puts her career in jeopardy by making a misdiagnosis while treating a boy. Colette steps in to assess the situation, but the patient’s father threatens to take legal action. The death of a pregnant teenager forces Duffy to come to terms with losing her mother, and Ryan offers her a shoulder to cry on
Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep4 – Thicker Than Water First Aired: 5 October 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Dillon is shocked as Lara receives her sentence and Simon lands himself in hot water when his love life starts to interfere with his work. Nikki is saluted for her recent bravery and seizes the opportunity to publicise the dangers facing paramedics, while a distracted Josh allows his marriage to suffer.
Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep3 – Judgement Day First Aired: 28 September 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: It’s the day of Lara’s trial, but she’s not feeling positive since Melanie Collier denied her husband raped her. Lara tries to convince the jury her act was self-defence. Lara is shocked, when they return their verdict. While Duffy is in court, her mother, Kate, is brought in after her condition worsens. Kate tells Charlie she wishes not to be resuscitated. Duffy is angered by Charlie’s attempts at sympathy and finds a shoulder to cry on in new security guard Ryan. Dillon and Harry clash with Charlie over how to treat two sisters, who are found to be drug mules.
Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep2 – Protection First Aired: 21 September 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Lara begins her court trial and suffers flashbacks and the bad memories associated with her assault. New SHO locum Heather Lincoln arrives and doesn’t go unnoticed by Simon, who gives her a guided tour – Colette teases ‘Does the tour include the cold showers?’. Later Dillon unwittingly starts to undress in the staff room, unaware Heather is enjoying the view. Heather, is quick to forget about a drink with Simon after shift, and is about to proposition Dillon, when Simon walks in. Heather gets Duffy’s back up by bluffing her way through a patient’s case and getting Harry on her side – and Duffy becomes more unhappy when her mother is brought in to the department, seriously ill with breast cancer. Finn is unhappy when he finds he is named in Comfort’s divorce papers.
Series: Casualty Episode: S17Ep1 – Déjà Vu First Aired: 14 September 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Three months on, Nikki returns to work and finds the experience still haunts her and has to deal with a stabbing victim on her first shift. Jack is embarrassed when she finds out about his spontaneous marriage proposal by her bedside. While taking his children out to the fair, Harry finds himself on-duty after a helicopter crash and is forced to deal with the injured as well as deal with his rebellious daughter. He feels guilty when he finds his heroic actions have infact cost lives. After being arrested, Lara is terrified for her future and looks to David’s wife to verify her story in court.
Series: Casualty Episode: S16Ep40 – Code Red First Aired: 29 June 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: A call to aid an injured man leads to a dangerous time for Nikki and Finlay as the situation turns violent. Harry is confirmed as the new consultant, and the pressure’s on for Lara as wife-beater and rapist David Collier continues his fight for life after their aggressive clash.
Series: Casualty Episode: S16Ep39 – Broken Hearts First Aired: 22 June 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Lara’s desperate fight for her life has devastating results for evil attacker David Collier. A surprise visitor ruins Roxy’s plans to accompany Simon to his brother’s wedding – should the ceremony still go ahead following the revelation of the prospective bride’s infidelity.
Series: Casualty Episode: S16Ep38 – Taking It All Back to the Streets First Aired: 15 June 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: Lara clashes with DI David Collier when a double shooting brings him back to the hospital on official business. Deliberately obstructing his enquiries, she threatens to share her suspicions about him with the rest of the staff – leading to a tense confrontation in the car park. Simon faces domestic strife as his brother’s wedding draws nearer, leading him into a heated argument with bride-to-be Claire.
Series: Casualty Episode: S16Ep37 – Denial First Aired: 8 June 2002 Character: Harry Harper
Description: The doctors vie for the registrar’s job when new consultant Harry Harper holds interviews for the position – but Lara gets off to a bad start as she is forced to explain her actions after becoming emotionally attached to a patient who was raped. Charlie is shocked to see a face from the past, and asks for Dillon’s help in dealing with him.
Here is the list of many of the resources used to build the Simon MacCorkindale Fan Page. Everything listed here I have a physical copy of in full or part.
Personally 2011 has been unequivocally, the saddest one of my life, as last October, my beloved husband, Simon MacCorkindale, lost his five-year battle with cancer. Many of you will remember him for his remarkable portrayal of Surgeon Harry Harper, in the long-running series, Casualty, but alongside his acting career, he shared my passion and worked tirelessly and tenaciously to build and promote our Arabian Stud farm and we never once stopped believing.
Susan George, who made her name as a sex siren in Straw Dogs, lost her husband, actor Simon MacCorkindale to cancer last year. Here she shares her advice on dealing with widowhood, and explains why she’s ready to start living dangerously again
THERE IS A NOTICE STUCK TO THE FRIDGE DOOR in the kitchen of Susan George’s rambling Exmoor farmhouse. From memory, it is the only thing on any surface in an otherwise immaculate room. Handwritten in capitals, it instructs: ‘Drink a glass of water every hour. Essential’ I mention it and Susan’s huge, dark eyes fill with tears. ‘I put that there to remind Simon’ she says. ‘And I will never take it down’ Simon is Simon MacCorkindale, her late husband. An internationally acclaimed actor, best known latterly for his long-standing role as consultant Harry Harper in BBC One’s Casualty, he died in her arms of cancer last year. He and Susan had been married for 26 years – he was admitted to the London Clinic for the last time straight from the luxury hotel room he had booked as a surprise for their wedding anniversary.
As she focuses on the future SUSAN GEORGE opens her heart for the first time about the loss of her husband and soul mate SIMON MacCORKINDALE
Tucked away in a remote comer of Exmoor with her horses and dogs around her, actress Susan George is busy – very busy. It may seem a strange time to take on such a heavy workload, but she’s the first to admit that it helps numb the pain of losing her husband and soulmate, actor Simon MacCorkindale, who lost his brave battle with cancer last October.
Just days after celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary, Simon died in Susan’s arms. He had fought the disease for five years, but when the end came it was swift and unexpected.
Television fans around the country were saddened by the news that Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale passed away in the arms of his beloved wife actress Susan George. He was just 58.
Brave Simon, who played Dr Harry Harper, had chosen to keep the severity of his illness a secret and tried to carry on with his life and work, as normally as possible.
He became a housewives’ favourite after playing Dr Harry Harper in BBC drama Casualty for six years. But last week, 58-year-old actor Simon MacCorkindale lost his battle with cancer and passed away in the arms of his wife, actress Susan George, 60
‘Casualty’ and ‘Dynasty’ star SIMON MacCORKINDALE 1952-2010
Wife Susan George pays moving tribute as he loses cancer battle
Much-loved actor Simon MacCorkindale died of cancer in the arms of his wife Susan George last week, at the age of just 58.
The former Casualty star died in a London clinic after a brave four-year fight against a disease that he refused to let dominate his life.
In a moving tribute to her beloved husband of 25 years, actress Susan said: “To me, he was simply the best of everything, and I loved him with all my heart He will live on in me forever”
SIMON MACCORKINDALE’S battle against cancer cost him and his wife, Susan George, much of the fortune that they had amassed during their successful showbusiness careers.
A few months ago, the star of Casualty, who died last week aged 58, made a secret trip to America for private treatment that cost £50,000 for one visit alone.
Simon MacCorkindale, the actor and star of the BBC drama Casualty, has died at 58. The actor, who had bowel cancer diagnosed in 2006, died at the London Clinic in Harley Street at 10.30pm on Thursday, said Max Clifford, the family’s friend and publicist.
Urbane British leading man who co-starred in Death on the Nile and was a stalwart of the long-running medical drama Casualty
Simon MacCorkindale was a classically handsome, rugged and urbane English leading man who had recurring roles in the glossy US soap opera Falcon Crest (1984-86) and more recently in the long-running British medical drama series Casualty (2002-08). He appeared in more than 200 episodes.
CASUALTY actor Simon MacCorkindale has died at 58 after a four-year battle with cancer.
Simon who played dashing Dr Harry Harper for six years passed away in the arms of his actress wife Susan George in a London clinic on Thursday night.
Susan, 60, said last night: “No one could have fought this disease any harder than he did.
“He was the best of everything and I loved him with all my heart.”