Detective Doppelgänger

I was talking with some guy this morning and he said I reminded him of an actor from the telly. One of the criminal detective shows, where they deal with pathology and dead bodies all the time.

It seems I look like the detective who never smiles, although my new mate said I seemed very friendly.

"Yes," I told him. "I'm the happy detective."

He has no idea what show it was, or who the actor is. But we did narrow it down to UK television, not the CSI or NCIS programs imported from the States.

Any Brit viewers out there know who he was talking about?

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Oh goodness. I've just done some Googling and found this. I hope that's not who he meant. Perhaps the three-day greyish gruff isn't working so well.