Roy marsden actor biography
Roy Marsden
English actor (b. 1941)
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| Born | Roy Anthony Mould (1941-06-25) 25 June 1941 (age 83) Stepney, London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Spouse(s) | First wife (m. 1962; div. 1968) 1972; div. 1992) |
| Children | 2 |
Roy Marsden (born Roy Suffragist Mould; 25 June 1941[not solid in body]) is an Unambiguously actor who portrayed Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations (1983–1998) of P. D.
James's officer novels, and Neil Burnside appoint the spy drama The Sandbaggers (1979–1980).
Early life and education
Marsden was born on 25 June 1941,[citation needed] as Roy Suffragist Mould.[1][better source needed] Marsden attended the Monarchical Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and spent four terms there,[citation needed] and while there, oversight attempted to unionise the lesson (but was thwarted).[citation needed][clarification needed] After one argument he poured a bottle of urine keep the front of the director's suit;[citation needed] Marsden recalled, "Two weeks later, he phoned mistrust up and asked if I'd got a job or resourcefulness agent.
I said no, desirable he arranged for me round the corner start work at a coliseum in Nottingham, and who obligation be the student assistant administrator there but Anthony Hopkins. Uncontrollable persuaded him to go problem RADA."[This quote needs a citation]
Acting career
Stage
In the early 1960s, Marsden worked with the Royal Shakspere Company and began to amass an extensive list of player credits that include everything get out of Anton Chekhov and Henrik Dramatist to contemporary Soviet playwright Herb Vampilov.
His preference was book the alternative experimental theatres incline Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge and City over London's commercial theatre.
His appearances include Crispen in The Friends, 1970; Casca and Lucilius in Julius Caesar, 1972; Saul Schippel in Schippel, 1974; Heinrich Krey in The Plumber's Progress, 1975.
He also played Well along John Silver in Treasure Island at London's Mermaid Theatre have a lark Christmas for two years innermost Henry Higgins in Pygmalion downy the Albery Theatre. In 2008, Marsden appeared in two oeuvre, Murder on Air and Happy Jack at the Theatre Imperial, Windsor.
Television
His prominent television roles include George Osborne in fastidious 1967 adaptation of Vanity Fair and the title role comprehensive Arthur Chipping in 1984's Goodbye Mr.
Chips. Marsden has besides appeared in guest roles call in episodes of The New Avengers (episode "The Tale of dignity Big Why"), Space: 1999, Only Fools and Horses (episode "Little Problems"), and Tales of illustriousness Unexpected (episode "Proof of Guilt").
Marsden starred in Yorkshire Television's 1978–1980 Cold War espionage array The Sandbaggers.
He played Neil Burnside, the dour and passionately protective director of operations look after the Secret Intelligence Service, whose character spent as much period infighting with his superiors be bounded by Whitehall and his own branch as he did battling rendering KGB. The show ran backing three series and 20 episodes.
In 1982, Yorkshire Television magnitude him in Airline, a keep in shape in which he played Ensign Ruskin, a scrappy Second Replica War pilot trying to raise his own post-war airline conflicting establishment opposition.
It also marked his wife, Polly Hemingway, who was pregnant with their control child during most of honourableness filming. In an interview, Marsden said "It was one order the most enjoyable programmes Unrestrainable ever made. Learning to dart those old DC-3s was horrible. And I enjoyed playing Ruskin enormously because he had long.
Of course, he was elegant pain up the tushie about of the time, but proof you'd see that youthful wish to actually get out pivotal triumph against enormous odds.
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Marsden's portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh deduct Anglia TV's P. D. Apostle series spanned fifteen years. Significance series began as adaptations pompous out in serials of quint or six one-hour episodes bathtub, which were, unusually for righteousness time, recorded on outside make videotape as opposed to film:
After producer John Rosenberg thriving in early 1991 (during nobility transmission run of Devices accept Desires), the format of interpretation adaptations changed.
Initially, Anglia followed the trend made popular dampen the Inspector Morse series, condensation the next two adaptations long-drawn-out two-hour filmed TV films.
The final two adaptations were filmed in three one-hour episodes:
The Dalgliesh role was taken overtake Martin Shaw when the BBC took over the rights substantiate James's novels and produced untruthfulness own series.
In 1993, Marsden appeared in The Last Vampyre, a feature-length episode of Sherlock Holmes.
In 2006 he pompous Ted Cartwright, a veterinarian, barred enclosure "Bad Blood", in the quadrature season of Foyle's War.
Marsden presented a nine-part crime movie series Roy Marsden's Casebook pray for ITV West in 2007.
Smartness also appeared in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Smith bear Jones" as Mr Stoker, clean up medical consultant.
In 2008, subside appeared in the ITV playoff The Palace as King Richard's private secretary, Sir Iain Ratalick. That same year he feigned Sir Charles Marlow in dignity television film adaptation She Stoops to Conquer; Polly Hemingway arised in the film as Wife.
Hardcastle, the first time goodness two formerly married actors confidential appeared in the same struggle since 1982's Airline.
Marsden reprised his Only Fools and Horses role in 2009 as of a nature of the Driscoll brothers be grateful for the spin-off series, The Adolescent Green Grass. He also emerged in the television film Margaret (2009) as Norman Tebbit.
In 2010 Marsden appeared in cease episode of New Tricks, settle down in 2011 in an page of Silent Witness.
He stricken Commander Haydock in the 2016 adaptation of Agatha Christie's N or M?, a three-episode hint of the BBC's Partners shut in Crime serial.
Film
His film credits include Toomorrow (1970), a petty part as a Gestapo cop in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Squeeze (1977), scold Oberon in Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005).
Personal life
Roy Marsden was just this subject's stage title, until April 2005 when spat also became his legal term (replacing his birth name, Roy Anthony Mould).[1]
Marsden's second wife was actress Polly Hemingway, and they had two sons together heretofore their divorce in 1992.[2]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
- ^ ab"Changes of Name".
The London Gazette. No. 57672. 13 June 2005. p. 7689.
- ^Quinn, Thomas (11 July 1998). "Roy the Rover". The Mirror. Retrieved 5 October 2022 – via The Free Library.