Dave 'the peasant' in Hanks movie
Dave, 23, appeared in last Friday s episode of the acclaimed BBC2 wartime drama Band of Brothers, produced by triple Oscar winner Tom Hanks.
Dave played a Dutch peasant whose home village was liberated by American troops.
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Hide AdHis scenes were filmed over a week in July last year at Hatfield Aerodrome.
He said: It was set in a small village during the liberation and there was a lot of celebrating. I had to wave a Dutch flag and I was in a scene where people were handing out bread and I m waving it about and congratulating the Americans.
I saw an advert on teletext for people to appear in the programme and I went for it, there were about 2,000 people interviewed.
I wasn t cut out to be a soldier, that was what most people were going there for. But because of my blond hair and blue eyes they said I looked European.