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Adrian Leonard Fellowes Lukis (born 28 March 1957) is an English actor who has appeared regularly in British television drama since the late 1980s. Some of his most notable appearances have been as Sergeant Doug Wright in the police drama series The Bill and as Marc Thompson in the BBC legal drama Judge John Deed.
Lukis was educated at Mount House School (now known as Mount Kelly), in Tavistock, Devon and Wellington College.
He had previously appeared in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (as Bennett in The Creeping Man), Maigret, Miss Marple, Campion, The Strauss Dynasty and Prime Suspect. He played Simon Avery in Silent Witness, series 15, episode 2: Death Has No Dominion. For radio, he appeared as George Vavasour in BBC Radio 4's 2004 adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers. He also appeared in a Midsomer Murders episode "Dead in the Water" (2004) as Phillip Trent, and in Silk as Patrick Stephens. In 2013, he played General Ravenscroft in an Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Elephants Can Remember". He has narrated a number of books for the BBC and elsewhere, including Graham Greene's The Comedians for Penguin.
From 2013 to the present day, Lukis has played the recurring role of Colonel Blair Toast in the Channel 4 series Toast of London. In 2014, he appeared in another Midsomer Murders episode "The Killings of Copenhagen" as Julian Calder. In 2015, Lukis appeared as Francis Davison in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise "Damned If You Do" (episode 4.3), and as Laurence Olivier in the European premiere of the Austin Pendleton play Orson's Shadow at the Southwark Playhouse in London. In 2015, he appeared in Downton Abbey as Sir John Darnley.
In 2016, he appeared as Home Secretary Alex Wallis in "Hated in the Nation", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
In September 2019, he reprised his role as George Wickham in the world premiere of Being Mr Wickham, a new play co-written with Catherine Curzon, and performed at the Old Georgian Theatre Royal in Bath as part of the Jane Austen Festival. In 2020, he appeared in Mae Martin's sitcom Feel Good, playing Mae's father.
In October 2022, Lukis starred in the BBC series playing General Claude Auchinleck.
| 1999 | The Trench | Lt. Col. Villiers | |
| 2001 | Young Blades | Maréchal d'Ancre | |
| Me Without You | Leo | ||
| 2005 | 7 Seconds | Vanderbrink | Direct-to-video film |
| 2007 | Nightwatching | Frans Banninck Cocq | |
| 2009 | Nine Miles Down | Dr. Leonard | |
| Innocent | Bridges | ||
| 2011 | Victim | Mr. Galsworthy | |
| 2012 | Bert & Dickie | Lord Burleigh | Also called: Going for Gold: The '48 Games |
| City Slacker | Charles | ||
| Voiceover Artist (voice) | Film adaptation of the book "Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler" | ||
| 2018 | The Festival | Brother Julian | |
| Get Carter: The Christchurch Murder | Douggie Quinn | Direct-to-video film | |
| 2019 | Amundsen | Lord Curzon | |
| Judy | Dr. Hargreaves | ||
| 2021 | Being Mr. Wickham | George Wickham | Also co-writer |
| 2023 | Bank of Dave | Edward De Thame | |
| The Boys in the Boat | Jay Ellis | ||
| 2024 | Office Royale | Boss | Short film |
| Joy | Professor Mason | ||
| 2025 | Tiny Little Voices | Repton | |
| Heads of State | Jack Gordon | ||
| Heavyweight | Bernard | Completed |
| 1985 | Dutch Girls | Murray | Television film |
| 1987 | The Bretts | Giles Peabody | Series 1; episode 2: "Driving Ambition" |
| 1989 | Campion | Matt D'Urfey | Series 1; episodes 7 & 8: "Death of a Ghost: Parts 1 & 2" |
| After the War | Michael Jordan | Mini-series; episodes 2–7, 9 & 10 | |
| Agatha Christie's Miss Marple | Tim Kendal | Episode 10: "A Caribbean Mystery" | |
| 1991 | Sherlock Holmes | Jack Bennett | Series 3: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes; episode 6: "The Creeping Man" |
| The Strauss Dynasty | Eduard Strauss | Mini-series; episodes 1–8 | |
| 1992 | Maigret | Captain Danielou | Series 1; episode 3: "Maigret Goes to School" |
| 1994 | Citizen Locke | Richard | Television film |
| 1995 | Prime Suspect | John Warwick | Series 4; episode 1: "The Lost Child" |
| Chandler & Co | Dr. Mark Judd | Series 2; episodes 2–6 | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Lt. Wickham | Mini-series; episodes 2–6 | |
| 1997–1999 | Peak Practice | Dr. David Shearer | Series 5–7; 35 episodes |
| 2001 | The Hunt | The Hon. Hugh Whitton | Television film |
| Back Home | Roger Dickinson | Television film | |
| 2003 | Down to Earth | Laurent Falaise | Series 3; episodes 3 & 4: "The Last Dance" & "Moving On" |
| Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie | Rob Blake | Television film. 2nd prequel to Saving Grace | |
| Too Good to Be True | Matthew | 2-part television drama | |
| Foyle's War | Blake Hardiman | Series 2; episode 4: "The Funk Hole" | |
| Absolute Power | Roddy Growse | Series 1; episode 5: "Country Life" | |
| 2004 | Midsomer Murders | Philip Trent | Series 8; episode 2: "Dead in the Water" |
| Spooks | John Sylvester | Series 3; episode 8: "Celebrity". Uncredited role | |
| 2005–2006 | Judge John Deed | Marc Thompson | Series 4; episodes 3 & 4, & series 5; episodes 1–6 |
| 2006–2007 | The Bill | Sgt. Doug Wright | Series 22 & 23; 6 episodes |
| 2007 | Trial & Retribution | Neil Dench | Series 10; episode 5: "Paradise Lost: Part 1" |
| Britz | Horne | 2-part television drama | |
| 2008 | A Touch of Frost | James Callum | Series 14; episode 3: "In the Public Interest" |
| Heartbeat | Rupert Middleton | Series 17; episode 15: "Hey Hey LBJ" | |
| 2009 | Doctors | Mark Shelby | Series 11; episode 32: "Worlds Apart" |
| Lewis | Jem Wishart | Series 3; episode 1: "Allegory of Love" | |
| Personal Affairs | Jeeves | Mini-series; episodes 4 & 5: "Fool on the Hill" & "Vital Statistix" | |
| 2010 | Money | Ossie Twain | Mini-series; episodes 1 & 2 |
| Pete versus Life | (unknown) | Series 1; episode 5: "Ollie's Girlfriend" | |
| 2010–2011 | Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love | Noel Keeling | Series 1; episodes 1 & 2, & series 2; episodes 1 & 2 |
| 2011 | Outnumbered | Martin | Series 4; episode 4: "The Parents' Evening" |
| Fresh Meat | Richard Pemberley | Series 1; episode 6 | |
| 2012 | Doctors | Walt Carson | Series 13; episode 226: "Let Me Shipwreck" |
| Silent Witness | Simon Avery | Series 15; episodes 1 & 2: "Death Has No Dominion: Parts 1 & 2" | |
| 2012–2015 | Toast of London | Blair Toast | Series 1–3; 5 episodes |
| 2013 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | General Ravenscroft | Series 13; episode 1: "Elephants Can Remember" |
| 2014 | Midsomer Murders | Julian Calder | Series 16; episode 5: "The Killings of Copenhagen" |
| Silk | Patrick Stephens | Series 3; episode 3: "Heavy Metal" | |
| 2015 | Death in Paradise | Francis Davison | Series 4; episode 3: "Damned If You Do..." |
| New Tricks | Tommy Naylor | Series 12; episodes 1 & 2: "Last Man Standing: Parts 1 & 2" | |
| Downton Abbey | Sir John Darnley | Series 6; episode 1 | |
| 2015–2016 | X Company | Lt.-Col. George Mayhew | Seasons 1 & 2: 7 episodes |
| 2016 | Follow the Money | CEO i London | Series 1; episode 6 |
| Black Mirror | Home Secretary, Alex Wallis | Series 3; episode 6: "Hated in the Nation" | |
| 2017 | Apple Tree Yard | Witness A | Mini-series; episode 3 |
| Genius | Wilhelm Röntgen | Season 1; episode 3: "Einstein: Chapter Three" | |
| Grantchester | Superintendent John Baldwin | Series 3; episode 4 | |
| Red Dwarf | Professor Telford | Series 12; episode 1: "Cured" | |
| The Crown | Vice-Admiral Connolly Abel Smith | Series 2; episodes 2 & 3: "A Company of Men" & "Lisbon" | |
| 2018 | Collateral | Xan Schofield | Mini-series; episodes 2 & 3 |
| Bulletproof | Edward | Series 1; episode 6. Uncredited role | |
| Poldark | Sir John Mitford | Series 4; episode 7 | |
| 2019 | Vera | Graham Caswell | Series 9; episode 1: "Blind Spot" |
| A Christmas Carol | Headmaster | Mini-series; episode 1: "The Human Beast" | |
| 2020 | Spy City | Aldous Petrie | Episodes 1–6 |
| 2020–2021 | Feel Good | Malcolm | Series 1 & 2; 7 episodes |
| 2022 | Toast of London | Blair Toast | Series 4: Toast of Tinseltown; episodes 1 & 6: "Anger Man" & "Monster Mash" |
| Anatomy of a Scandal | Aitkin | Mini-series; episode 2 | |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Edward Flood | Episode 9: "As the World Falls Down" | |
| General Auchinleck | Series 1; episodes 2–4 & 6 | ||
| 2024 | The Outlaws | Kelvin Archer | Series 3; episodes 2 & 4 |
| The Road Trip | Miles | Episodes 3, 4 & 6 | |
| 2025 | The Bombing of Pan Am 103 | Roy Burman | Mini-series; episodes 1–6 |
| 2025 | The War Between the Land and the Sea | Sir Jonathan Hynes | Mini-series |
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