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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 25, 2022 13:06:53 GMT
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Post by Jan on Jul 25, 2022 14:38:29 GMT
He was the Hamlet of his generation at the RSC in 1960s and played Henry VI and Richard II then too. Hard to imagine given the long list of second-rate films he concentrated on afterwards. I only saw him on stage once inexplicably mis-cast as Falstaff by Michael Boyd.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 25, 2022 15:21:21 GMT
I wish I could have seen the ill-fated I, Claudius production.
I have the script but would have loved to have seen the actual staging.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 25, 2022 19:47:31 GMT
I’m thinking he did a lot of crap for the money between the late 60s and now but good luck to him if it paid well: just for Time Bandits, Tron and Star Trek VI I salute him though: R.I.P.
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Post by Jan on Jul 26, 2022 7:55:44 GMT
I’m thinking he did a lot of crap for the money between the late 60s and now but good luck to him if it paid well: just for Time Bandits, Tron and Star Trek VI I salute him though: R.I.P. Oh absolutely, good luck to him. I'd forgotten he did King Lear at Chichester in 2005. I didn't see it. Bit like Ian Holm - early RSC stage success then absent from the stage for decades partly due to stage fright, then returns with King Lear. Olivier had stage fright at one point, due to illness and the stress of starting the NT. He was playing Shylock - one night he went on stage and realised he didn't have a clue what his next line was, when his cue arrived he remembered the line but just that one, then at the end of it he remembered the next one, and so it went on, a line at a time. |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 26, 2022 8:14:47 GMT
I see he ended his days in Denville Hall, surrounded by other actors. Just imagine the stories!?
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