Kevin Whately (born February 6, 1951, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a British actor whose career includes many stage plays, among them an adaptation of 12 Angry Men, television appearances in Coronation Street and Peak Practice, and film appearances in The English Patient and Purely Belter.

His better known roles own get on television, when Neville Hope around Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in Inspector Morse. Charted a dying of "Inspector Morse", Inside July 2004 it was announced that Whately would star within the spin-byproduct program for ITV, Inspector Lewis & motion-picture photography began inside summertime 2005. This may likewise feature Laurence Fox as Det Sgt James Hathaway and Clare Holman as pathologist Laura Hobson.