Richard Thorncroft, a former British TV actor, is a has-been who played the charismatic title character in the 1980s detective show Mindhorn. He used to be famous for his robotic eye that could "see the truth".

Mindhorn
A washed-up television actor joins forces with law enforcement to catch a killer who is obsessed with his 1980s TV character, Detective Mindhorn, and believes the fictional detective is a real person.