Dicken is a very experienced actor who has extensive credits in theatre, television and film.
On screen he is best known as Duke Woods in Emmerdale. He has appeared as Geoff Horton in Coronation Street (Granada TV), Alan Partridge in Brookside (Mersey TV), At Home With The Braithwaites (Yorkshire TV), Doctors (BBC), Inspector Morse (Carlton TV), and the sci-fi cult classics; Doctor Who (BBC) and Blakes 7 (BBC). Dicken also played the leading role in Scab, a drama about the last miner’s strike, which won major awards at the Berlin Film Festival and a Prix Italia.