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List Of RADA Alumni
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London have most of their records kept by RADA'public student records A * Marisa Abela (BA Acting 2019) * Hiran Abeysekera (BA Acting 2011) *Polly Adams (Acting Diploma 1958) * Trevor Adams (Acting Diploma 1967) * Dawn Addams (Acting Diploma 1949) *Robert Addie (Acting Diploma 1981) *Mark Addy (Acting Diploma 1984) * Kay Adshead (Acting Diploma 1975) *Amber Agar (BA Acting 2002) *Anthony Ainley (Acting Diploma 1964) *Yasmine Akram (BA Acting 2007) *Jude Akuwudike (Acting Diploma 1987) * Meggie Albanesi (Acting Diploma 1917) *John Alderton (Acting Diploma 1961) * Robert Aldous (Acting Diploma 1955) *Ebrahim Alkazi (Acting Diploma 1950) *Adie Allen (Acting Diploma 1987) *Adrianne Allen (Acting Diploma 1926) * Joy Allen (Acting Diploma 1950) *Ronald Allen (Acting Diploma 1953) * Sheila Allen (Acting Diploma 1951) *Peter Amory (Acting Diploma 1985) *Jean Anderson (Acting Diploma 1928) *Miles Anderson (Acting Diploma 1969) * Bernard Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senate House complex of the University of London and is a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. It is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. It moved to buildings on Gower Street in 1905. It was granted a Royal Charter in 1920 and a new theatre was built on Malet Street, behind the Gower Street buildings that was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1921. It received its first government subsidy in 1924. RADA currently has five theatres and a cinema. The school’s Principal Industry Partner is Warner Bros. Entertainment. RADA offers a number of foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Its higher education awards are validated by King's College London ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Aldous
Robert Aldous (born 1934 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...) is an English stage and television actor. Robert (Bob) trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1953–55. In a long and varied career, his main priority was the stage and he has acted with most of the major regional theatre companies and toured extensively in the UK and overseas. He was for two years associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and appeared in The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and in An Enemy of the People and Peter Pan at the National Theatre. For thirty years he was the “baddie” in big provincial pantomimes! On television he can claim appearances in Dad's Army, Dr Who, “Allo,” ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Armitage
Graham Armitage (24 April 1936 – 6 March 1999) was an English stage, film and television actor. Armitage was born in Blackpool in Lancashire, the son of Albert Edward Armitage (1908–1959) and Isabel W. ''née'' Bailes (1909–). In 1947 Harvey left the UK with his family, flying to South Africa and eventually settling in Cape Town where he attended Sea Point Boy’s High School and then the Christian Brothers College. In early 1951 Harvey and his family moved to Salisbury, in Southern Rhodesia where he attended Prince Edward School. During 1952 Harvey wrote the entrance exam for late entry to Dartmouth Naval College. Whilst his Maths and Geography results were outstanding he had not studied the same syllabus for English Literature and History so failed to obtain entrance. In 1955 he married Carole Shirley England (1934–2017) at the Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury, Rhodesia. The couple had three children. He graduated from RADA in 1952 following which he made his début in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Arditti
Philip Arditti also credited as Philip Ishak Arditti, is a Turkish theatre and television actor of Jewish Sephardic descent, famous for his role as Uday Hussein in the four episode '' House of Saddam'' television docudrama. He also appeared in the film '' Red 2'', a sequel to 2010's '' Red''. He was part of the team that founded the Arcola Theatre in London. Early years Arditti was born in Geneva in 1979 and grew up in Istanbul and moved to London in 1999. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2004. Career He began his TV and film career in some of British television's most popular series including '' Casualty'', '' Spooks'' and ''Silent Witness''. He also appeared in the British comedy drama film '' Happy-Go-Lucky''. His radio plays includSnow(adapted from the novel by Orhan Pamuk) an In 2013, he appeared in Turkish television series ''Son'' and in the film ''Singing Women'' directed by Turkish film director Reha Erdem. In 2014 he appeared in the BBC/Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Arden (director)
Jane Arden (born Norah Patricia Morris; 29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a British film director, actress, singer/songwriter and poet, who gained note in the 1950s. Born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She started acting in the late 1940s and writing for stage and television in the 1950s. In the 1960s, she joined movements for feminism and anti-psychiatry. She wrote a screenplay for the film '' Separation'' (1967). In the late 1960s and 1970s, she wrote for experimental theatre, adapting one work as a self-directed film, ''The Other Side of the Underneath'' (1972). In 1978 she published a poetry book. Arden committed suicide in 1982. In 2009, her feature films '' Separation'' (1967), ''The Other Side of the Underneath'' (1972) and ''Anti-Clock'' (1979) were restored by the British Film Institute and released on DVD and Blu-ray. Her literary works are out of print. Early life and career Arden was born Norah Patricia Morris at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Archard
Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances. Early life and career Archard was born in Fulham, London, where his father Alfred James Aloysius who was born in Marylebone was a jeweller. Bernard's paternal grandfather Alfred Charles Archard and great grandfather Henry Archard were clockmakers, watchmakers and jewellers in Mayfair, London during the 1800s. He was the maternal grandson of James Matthew Littleboy, Mayor of Fulham, 1906–07. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and in summer 1939 he appeared in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, production of ''Twelfth Night''. As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, he worked on Quaker land. Television Archard's first major television role, reprising the like-titled radio show, was playing Lt Col. Oreste Pinto in the BBC wartime drama series ''Spycatcher'', which ran for four seasons between 1959 and 1961. His TV guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Anderson
Miles Anderson (born 23 October 1947) is a British stage and screen actor, born in the colony of Southern Rhodesia, who has appeared in television serials both in the United Kingdom, and North America. He recently appeared as Alistair the photographer in the film ''La La Land''. In 2021 he played 'Lennox' in Joel Coen's ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'' with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Born in 1947 in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Anderson was educated at Prince Edward School. His father was Major-General J. Anderson, CBE, the commander of the Southern Rhodesian Army who was dismissed in 1964 because of his opposition to the colonial government's plans for denial of native African rule upon independence; and his mother, Daphne, wrote ''The Toerags'' a memoir of her difficult childhood in Rhodesia. Miles has appeared in the US television series, ''Criminal Minds'', as well as the UK series ''Ultimate Force'' in which he played Colonel Aiden Dempsey for the entirety of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the BBC drama '' The Brothers'' (1972–1976) and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the Second World War series '' Tenko'' (1982–1985). She also had distinguished careers on stage and in 46 films. Early Life and Stage Mary Jean Heriot Anderson was born 12 December 1907 in Eastbourne, Sussex to Scottish parents, and grew up in Guildford, Surrey. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1926-1928. Her first professional engagement was in ''Many Waters'' at the Prince's Theatre, Bristol, in 1929 with her fellow RADA student Robert Morley. In 1934 she joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, appearing in ''The Circle'' by Somerset Maugham and ''Yahoo'' by Lord Longford. In 1935 she played Lady Macbeth with The Seagull Players in Leeds. In 1936 Lord Longford's company from the Gate Theatre, Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Amory
Peter Amory (born Peter Walton on 2 November 1964) is an English actor best known for playing the role of Chris Tate in ITV's soap opera ''Emmerdale''. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk. Personal life He was married to actress Claire King, who played his stepmother Kim Tate, but the couple separated after ten years, they are however still good friends. He has a son, Thomas, from a previous relationship. He was good friends with his former on-screen sister Leah Bracknell (Zoe Tate Zoe Tate is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Leah Bracknell. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 12 December 1989. Zoe was involved in many major storylines during her t ...). Filmography Film Television References External links * 1964 births English male television actors Living people Actors from Norwich Actors from Norfolk People associated with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Alumni of the Royal Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Allen (English Actress)
Sheila Allen (22 October 1932 – 13 October 2011) was an English actress, who was best known to the wider public for her role on television as Cassie Manson in '' Bouquet Of Barbed Wire'' and its sequel ''Another Bouquet'' (1976–77). From 1966 to 1978, Allen was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Early life and stage work Allen was born in Chard, Somerset, to Dorothy Essex (née Potter) and William Allen. She was educated at Howell’s School, Denbigh and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1949 to 1951. From the 1950s, Allen appeared in plays by Shakespeare. Her first leading role was that of Katherine ("the shrew") in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' for the Arena Company in Birmingham (1954–56). Among many other Shakespearean roles, she played Hippolyta in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' with the Bristol Old Vic Company, a production that moved to London (1957–58) and Portia (''The Merchant of Venice'', Old Vic, London, 1962). She joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Allen
Ronald John Allen (16 December 1930 – 18 June 1991) was an English actor. He is most well known for playing David Hunter in the long-running ITV soap opera ''Crossroads'', a role he played from 1969 to 1985. Biography Allen was born in Reading, Berkshire. He studied at Leighton Park School in Reading and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where he won the John Gielgud Scholarship. He worked in repertory theatre and had a season at the Old Vic in London. Allen also appeared in several films, including '' A Night to Remember'' (1958) about the sinking of the ''Titanic'', the espionage film ''A Circle of Deception'' (1960), the British horror films ''The Projected Man'' (1966) and ''The Fiend'' (1972), the war film ''Hell Boats'' (1970), and the black comedy ''Eat the Rich'' (1987). After roles in the BBC soaps ''Compact'' (1963–64) and ''United!'' (1966–67) came his best remembered role, in the long-running ''Crossroads'' (1969–85). Allen playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Allen
Joy Allen (born 10 November 1948) is an English actress best known for her television appearances, including several episodes of the sitcom ''Archie Bunker's Place''. Early life Allen was born in Werrington, Cambridgeshire. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career She has appeared in several television roles including in '' Dad's Army'' (as a bus conductress to whom Captain Mainwaring is notably chivalrous), '' Are You Being Served?'', ''Archie Bunker's Place'', ''Oh, Doctor Beeching!'' and '''Allo 'Allo! ''Allo 'Allo!'' is a British sitcom television series, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner and Richard Gibson. Originally broadcast on BBC1, the series focuses on the life of a French caf ...''. Filmography Film Television References *Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). ''The Complete A-Z of Dads Army''. Orion. External links * Alumni of RADA English television actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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