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Antony Sher
Dec 3, 2021 19:49:06 GMT
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Post by ceebee on Dec 3, 2021 19:49:06 GMT
If anybody hasn't heard Brian Blessed's tribute to Antony Sher (they were good friends), listen to BBC radio 2 news broadcast at 7pm (BBC sounds app).
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Post by scarpia on Dec 4, 2021 9:27:58 GMT
Very sad to hear. His performance as Iago is forever etched on my memory. Think I last saw him in the excellent RSC Death of a Salesman. A great loss.
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Post by crowblack on Dec 4, 2021 10:46:43 GMT
There was an obituary with some nice clips at the end of the BBC 6 o'clock news last night, available to watch online until 6.30 tonight.
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Post by Jan on Dec 4, 2021 11:09:00 GMT
I remember seeing him first as the loathsome Howard Kirk in the famous 1981 BBC series The History Man. I think that is still possibly his best performance. Subsequently I saw him about 20 times on stage - his best for me were his sensational Richard III (lifting a desperately dull production) and Tartuffe. He was a stage actor in the Olivier tradition, quite rare these days, where he went to the character rather than vice versa, always keen to change his appearance and mode of speaking - proper "acting".
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Post by crowblack on Dec 4, 2021 11:22:23 GMT
I didn't see them onstage, but the BBC broadcast a double bill of Moliere and Tartuffe in the 1980s - it would be lovely if they'd put them up on iplayer (unlikely, but one can hope!).
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Post by crabtree on Dec 4, 2021 12:00:54 GMT
I don't remember richard III being dull at all. I do remember Patricia Routledge making the most of Margaret.
and then there's Torch song Trilogy. What an epic that was, and featured Barbara Rosenblat as the singer and a young Rupert graves
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2021 13:41:53 GMT
I'd been looking for this thread under performers so only just found it.
A superb stage actor, a talented artist, writer and painter too. Feel really sorry for Greg.
RIP Sir Antony.
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Post by harrietcraig on Dec 17, 2021 23:04:07 GMT
His Macbeth, with Harriet Walter as Lady M., is available to stream for free on YouTube through Saturday, December 18:
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 14, 2022 8:58:15 GMT
Sunday night is Antony Sher night on BBC4. 7 to 11.50pm.
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