Anton Lesser
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Anton Lesser is a British actor. He attended Moseley Grammar School
and the University of Liverpool
before going to RADA
in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company
(RSC) he has played a considerable number of Shakespeare's great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida
), Edgar (King Lear
), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar
), Leontes (Winter's Tale), and Richard III.
He is a frequent radio contributor, has starred in the BBC Radio
adaptations of the first five Falco
mysteries by Lindsey Davis
and has recorded many audio book
s - including much of the work of Charles Dickens
- his recording of Great Expectations
won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton
's Paradise Lost
and Homer
to contemporary novels by Robert Harris
(Fatherland
) and Philip Pullman
.
Lesser lives in Warwickshire with his wife Madeleine and two children- his son, Harry, and daughter Lily.
Moseley School
Moseley School: A Language College is a large comprehensive school in the Moseley area of Birmingham, England. It has a predominantly male, Muslim student population...
and the University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...
before going to RADA
Rada
Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages....
in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
(RSC) he has played a considerable number of Shakespeare's great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
), Edgar (King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
), Leontes (Winter's Tale), and Richard III.
He is a frequent radio contributor, has starred in the BBC Radio
BBC Radio
BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...
adaptations of the first five Falco
Marcus Didius Falco
Marcus Didius Falco is the central character and narrator in a series of novels by Lindsey Davis. Using the concepts of modern detective stories , Davis portrays the world of the Roman Empire under Vespasian...
mysteries by Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...
and has recorded many audio book
Audio book
An audiobook or audio book is a recording of a text being read. It is not necessarily an exact audio version of a book or magazine.Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the...
s - including much of the work of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
- his recording of Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton
John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
's Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...
and Homer
Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
to contemporary novels by Robert Harris
Robert Harris (novelist)
Robert Dennis Harris is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter.-Early life:Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local...
(Fatherland
Fatherland (novel)
Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It takes the form of a high concept alternative history set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II.The novel was an immediate bestseller in Britain...
) and Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
.
Lesser lives in Warwickshire with his wife Madeleine and two children- his son, Harry, and daughter Lily.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1979 | The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot , first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was by Thomas Y... |
Philip Wakem | TV series (2 episodes) |
Oresteia | Orestes Orestes Orestes was the son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology; Orestes may also refer to:Drama*Orestes , by Euripides*Orestes, the character in Sophocles' tragedy Electra*Orestes, the character in Aeschylus' trilogy of tragedies, Oresteia... |
TV series (3 episodes) | |
1981 | The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on... |
Trofimov | TV movie |
Troilus & Cressida Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus... |
Troilus Troilus Troilus is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War... |
TV movie | |
1982 | Crown Court Crown Court (TV series) Crown Court was an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.... |
TV series (1 episode: "Fair Play: Part 1") | |
King Lear | Edgar | TV movie | |
The Missionary The Missionary The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy directed by Richard Loncraine, produced by George Harrison, Denis O'Brian, Michael Palin and Neville C. Thompson. The film stars Palin as the Rev... |
Young Man | ||
1983 | Good and Bad at Games Good and Bad at Games Good and Bad at Games is a UK Television drama that was one of the first programmes broadcast on Channel 4 Television in 1983. The screenplay was written by William Boyd and the lead roles of Cox, Mount and Niles were played by Anton Lesser, Dominic Jephcott and Martyn Stanbridge. A young Rupert... |
Cox | TV movie |
1984 | Sakharov | Valery Chalidze | TV movie |
Freud | Wilhelm Fleiss Wilhelm Fliess Wilhelm Fliess was a German Jewish otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. On Josef Breuer's suggestion, Fliess attended several "conferences" with Sigmund Freud beginning in 1887 in Vienna, and the two soon formed a strong friendship... |
TV series (5 episodes) | |
1985 | Anna of the Five Towns Anna of the Five Towns Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works.-Plot summary:The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are... |
Willie Price | TV series (2 episodes) |
The Assam Garden The Assam Garden The Assam Garden is a 1985 British drama film made by Moving Picture Company and distributed by Contemporary Films Ltd. The film was directed by Mary McMurray and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark with Peter Jaques as associate producer. It was written by Elisabeth Bond... |
Mr. Sutton | ||
1987 | London Embassy | Robert Bronhouse | TV series |
Great Performances Great Performances Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service public television since 1972... |
Robber | TV series (1 episode: "Monsignor Quixote") | |
1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will Twelfth Night, or What You Will Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season... |
Feste Feste Feste is a jester in the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night or: What You Will. He is attached to the household of the Countess Olivia. Apparently he has been there for some time, as he was a "fool that the Lady Olivia's father took much delight in"... |
TV movie |
Screen Two | Stanley Spencer Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Much of his work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life... |
TV series (1 episode: "Stanley Spencer") | |
A Vote for Hitler | A. L. Rowse A. L. Rowse Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall. He is perhaps best known for his work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer... |
TV movie | |
1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Weisenthal Story Murderers Among Us Die Mörder sind unter uns German title was one of the first post-World War II German film and the first Trümmerfilm. It was produced in 1945 and 1946 in the Althoff-Atelier in Babelsberg and in Jofa-Ateliers in Johannisthal... |
Karl | TV movie |
1990 | Traitors | TV movie | |
1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Levi | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.1") |
1992 | Downtown Lagos | Mungo Dawson | TV series |
1994 | Guinevere Guinevere (1994 film) Guinevere is a 1994 Lifetime Television movie based on the Arthurian legend. The story is told from Queen Guinevere's point of view, presenting her as the driving force behind the success of Camelot. It was adapted from author Persia Woolley's novels Child of the Northern Spring, Queen of the... |
Envoy | TV movie |
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Shakespeare: the Animated Tales thumb|right|[[Banquo]] and [[Fleance]] from the "Macbeth" episode. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales comprised two six-part television series, first broadcast in 1992 and 1994... |
Leontes Leontes King Leontes is the father of Perdita and husband to Queen Hermione in Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale. He becomes obsessed with the belief that his wife has been having an affair with Polixenes, his childhood friend and King of Bohemia. Because of this, he tries to have his friend poisoned,... |
TV series (1 episode: "The Winter's Tale") | |
1995 | The Politician's Wife | Mark Hollister | TV series |
Bugs Bugs (TV series) Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers... |
Patrick Marcel | TV series (1 episode: "Pulse") | |
Moses Moses (film) Moses is an American-German-Italian biblical-drama film from 1995. It was directed by Roger Young, written by Lionel Chetwynd, starring Ben Kingsley and Frank Langella.- Cast :* Ben Kingsley : Moses* Christopher Lee – Ramses II* Anton Lesser – Eliav... |
Eliav | TV movie | |
1996 | Sharman Sharman (TV series) Sharman is a television series starring Clive Owen, based on the "Nick Sharman" books written by London based author Mark Timlin.-Cast and characters:... |
Galilee | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.4") |
Testament: The Bible in Animation Testament: The Bible in Animation Testament: The Bible in Animation was a 1997 animated series produced by Sianel 4 Cymru . It featured animated versions of stories from the Bible, each story using its own unique style of animation, including stop-motion animation. It ran for two seasons in the United Kingdom and won one Emmy,... |
Joseph Saint Joseph Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ .... |
TV series (1 episode: "Joseph") | |
1997 | Into the Blue | Dr. John Ockleton | TV movie |
Bodyguards Bodyguards (TV series) Bodyguards is a British television series that focuses on the cases of a specialized bodyguard unit called the Close Protection Group in service of the UK government.The lead cast members were Sean Pertwee as Ian Worrell and Louise Lombard as Liz Shaw... |
Dusan Mezic | TV series (1 episode: "A Choice of Evils") | |
FairyTale: A True Story FairyTale: A True Story FairyTale: A True Story is a 1997 film from Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies.-Plot:Early 20th Century England was a time and place ripe for believing, both in scientific advancements such as electric light and photography, and in anomalous phenomena of all... |
Wounded Corporal | ||
The Moonstone | Ezra Jennings | TV movie | |
1998 | Invasion: Earth Invasion: Earth (TV series) Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.-Creation and production:... |
Lt. Charles Terrell | TV series (4 episodes) |
Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies.... |
Mr. Pitt Crawley | TV series (5 episodes, of 6 total) | |
The Echo | Billy Blake | TV movie | |
1999 | Trial by Fire | Brian Redwood | TV movie |
Pure Wickedness | Dr. Andrew Ward | TV movie | |
2000 | The Miracle Maker | Herod Herod Antipas Herod Antipater , known by the nickname Antipas, was a 1st-century AD ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch... |
TV movie |
Esther Kahn Esther Kahn Esther Kahn is the first English-language film by the French director Arnaud Desplechin. It premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival but was not distributed to the United States for two years until it played in New York City in 2002... |
Sean | ||
Safe as Houses | Mr. Dunn | TV series | |
The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Series) The Scarlet Pimpernel is a series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution.... |
Antoine Picard | TV series (1 episoe: "Friends & Enemies") | |
Lorna Doone Lorna Doone (2001 film) Lorna Doone is a 2001 romance/drama television movie version of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's novel of the same name. The film won the Royal Television Society's Television Award for Best Visual Effects by Colin Gorry.- External links :*... |
Counsellor Doone | TV movie | |
2001 | Perfect Strangers | Stephen | TV series (3 episodes) |
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story is a 2001 American television miniseries. It was directed by Brian Henson and was a co-production of CBS and Jim Henson Television. It is an alternative version of the classic English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The story was considerably reworked... |
Vidas Merlinis, Research Scientist | TV movie | |
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 2000 and 2001. It was inspired by the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on his tutor at the University of Edinburgh Dr Joseph Bell, and that Bell did... |
Milburn | TV series (1 episode: "The White Knight Stratagem") | |
Uprising Uprising (film) Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman... |
TV movie | ||
Charlotte Gray Charlotte Gray (film) Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks... |
Renech | ||
Swallow | Paul Valley | TV series (3 episodes) | |
2002 | Dickens | Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic... |
TV series (3 episodes) |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his... |
Sir Gawain Gawain Gawain is King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table who appears very early in the Arthurian legend's development. He is one of a select number of Round Table members to be referred to as the greatest knight, most notably in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight... |
TV movie | |
Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series... |
Professor Ray Levin | TV series (2 episodes) | |
The Project The Project (2002 television programme) The Project was a BBC two-part 2002 television drama, directed by Peter Kosminsky from a script by Leigh Jackson.The series presented a fictionalised account , seen through the experiences of three young activists, of developments in the Labour Party and its progress into Blairism, from the party's... |
Stanley Hall | TV movie | |
Foyle's War | Austin Carmichael | TV series (1 episode: "Eagle Day") | |
2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | Batten | TV movie |
Y Mabinogi Y Mabinogi Y Mabinogi is a 2003 Welsh film. It is mostly animated, although the very beginning and end sequences are live action... |
Teyrnon | TV series | |
Imagining Argentina Imagining Argentina (film) Imagining Argentina is a 2003 film directed and written by Christopher Hampton. The movie was nominated for the "Golden Lion" award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival... |
General Guzmán | ||
Eroica Eroica (2003 film) Eroica - The day that changed music forever is a BBC television film which dramatises the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica.... |
Sukowaty | TV movie | |
Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was... |
Eddie Darwin | TV series (1 episode: "Birds of Prey") | |
2004 | London London (TV series) London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.-'Cast list':The series made a visual trope of, as Ackroyd walked around London or was sitting in his study, the persons of famous and anonymous historical figures would fade in and... |
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic... |
TV movie |
Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was... |
Marcus Gwilym | TV series (2 episodes) | |
Dirty Filthy Love Dirty Filthy Love Dirty Filthy Love is a British single television drama starring Michael Sheen as an architect living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome.... |
Charles | TV movie | |
Spooks Spooks Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a... |
Nicholas Ashworth | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #3.4") | |
2005 | Ahead of the Class Ahead of the Class Ahead of the Class is a 2003 book and 2005 dramatic television film based on real-life events.-Plot:Marie Stubbs is a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is close to the age of retirement. After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve... |
Graham Ranger | TV movie |
The Girl in the Cafe | George | TV movie | |
E-mc2 | Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state... |
TV movie | |
River Queen River Queen River Queen is a 2005 New Zealand film directed by Vincent Ward and starring Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland and Cliff Curtis. The film opened to mixed reviews but performed well at the local box-office.-Plot:... |
Baine | ||
Class of '76 | Martin Gibson | TV movie | |
Nova NOVA (TV series) Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries... |
Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state... |
TV series (1 episode: "Einstein's Big Idea") | |
2006 | Dalziel and Pascoe Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series) Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives... |
Paul Goodman | TV series (2 episodes) |
Vital Signs Vital Signs (TV series) Vital Signs is a British television drama series airing on ITV from 2006. It stars Tamzin Outhwaite as a supermarket check-out operator who decides to become a doctor. The series co-stars William Beck, Fraser Ayres, Eve Best, Claudie Blakley, Lucinda Dryzek, Beth Goddard, Alfie Hunter, Brooke... |
Dr. Lindsay | TV series (3 episodes) | |
New Tricks | Pete Mackintyre | TV series (1 episode: "Bank Robbery") | |
The Outsiders | Maurice Heston | TV movie | |
A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield.... |
Dennis Prior | TV series (1 episode: "Endangered Species") | |
Miss Potter | Harold Warne | ||
2008 | Messiah: The Rapture | Samuel Waite | TV series |
The Palace | Archbishop of Canterbury | TV series (2 episodes) | |
Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was... |
Reverend Wallace Stone | TV series (1 episode: "Talking to the Dead") | |
Agatha Christie: Poirot | Inspector Kelsey | TV series (1 episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons") | |
Einstein and Eddington Einstein and Eddington Einstein and Eddington is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein... |
Fritz Haber Fritz Haber Fritz Haber was a German chemist, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid... |
TV movie | |
Little Dorrit Little Dorrit (TV serial) Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857.... |
Mr. Merdle | TV series (7 episodes) | |
2009 | Deep Sleep | short | |
Casualty 1909 Casualty 1900s Casualty 1900s is a British hospital drama spin-off miniseries, broadcast by the BBC.It plunges the viewer into the Receiving Room - a similar concept to today's Accident and Emergency - of The London Hospital deep in the teeming East End... |
Dr. Henry Head | TV series (4 episodes) | |
2010 | Primeval: Webisodes | Gideon | |
Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Sol Caplin | TV series (1 episode: "Faith No More") | |
Five Daughters Five Daughters Five Daughters is a British television drama mini-series starring Ian Hart, Sarah Lancashire, Jaime Winstone and Juliet Aubrey. Set in 2006, it is about the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders and how the crime affected their families... |
Dr. Nat Cary | TV series (2 episodes) | |
Garrow's Law | John Farmer | TV series (4 episodes) | |
Flutter Flutter (film) Flutter is an upcoming British independent dark comedy film about gambling, written by Stephen Leslie and directed by Giles Borg currently filming in England... |
Bruno | completed | |
2011 | Primeval Primeval Primeval or primæval may refer to:* Primeval, a British science fiction television series.* Primeval , a 2007 film* Primeval , a score of music from the BBC TV series Doctor Who... |
Gideon | TV series (5 episodes) |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a 2011 adventure fantasy film and the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean series... |
Lord John Carteret | ||
The Hour | Clarence Fendley | TV series (5 episodes) | |
The Man Who Crossed Hitler The Man Who Crossed Hitler The Man Who Crossed Hitler is a 2011 BBC film set in Berlin in the summer of 1931, dramatising the true story where lawyer Hans Litten subpoenas Adolf Hitler as a witness in the trial of some Nazi thugs... |
Rudolf Olden Rudolf Olden Rudolf Olden was a German lawyer and journalist. In the Weimar-period he was a well known voice in the political debate, a vocal opponent of the Nazis, a fierce advocate of human rights and one of the first to alert the world to the treatment of Jews by the Nazis in 1934. He is the author of... |
TV movie |
Theatre performances
- Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
'Romeo', 1980, RSC - HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
'Hamlet', 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London - Troilus and CressidaTroilus and CressidaTroilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
'Troilus', 1985, RSC - The Plantagenets (Henry VI part 1-3 and Richard IIIRichard III (play)Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
) 'Richard III', 1988, RSC - Two Shakespearean Actors 'Edwin Forrest', 1990, RSC
- Richard IIRichard II (play)King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's...
'Henry Bullingbrook', 1990, RSC - The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
'Petruchio', 1992, RSC - The Merry Wives of WindsorThe Merry Wives of WindsorThe Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...
'Frank Ford', 1992, RSC - 'Art', 'Serge', 1997, Wyndham's Theatre, London
- Private Lives 'Elyot', 1999,Lyttelton Theatre, London
- CymbelineCymbelineCymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance...
'Iachomo', 2003, RSC - Julius CaesarJulius Caesar (play)The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
'Marcus Brutus', 2005, Barbican, London - The Winter's TaleThe Winter's TaleThe Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics, among them W. W...
'Leontes', 2006,RSC - The Vertical HourThe Vertical HourThe Vertical Hour is a play by David Hare. The play addresses the relationship of characters with opposing views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and also explores psychological tension between public lives and private lives. The play received its world premiere at the Music Box Theater on Broadway,...
'Oliver Lucas', 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London - A Doll's HouseA Doll's HouseA Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premièred at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month....
'Dr Rank', 2009, Donmar Warehouse, London