Michael Deacon (1933–2000) was a
Scottish actor
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.
His many stage appearances included roles for venues such as the
Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. Roxana Silbert has been the artistic director since ...
,
Mercury Theatre, Colchester
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,
Pentameters Theatre and the
Finborough Theatre
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. In 1995, he played the title role in ''Who is Eddie Linden'' at
The Old Red Lion in
Islington. The play was adapted by William Tanner from
Sebastian Barker's biography of poet and literary magazine editor
Eddie Linden.
Deacon was also a highly distinguished radio actor, particularly for the BBC. His BBC Radio work ranged from productions of major classics and important new works to the long-running soap opera ''
The Archers
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'', in which he played the Vicar of Ambridge,
Jerry Buckle. He also provided the voice of
Gríma Wormtongue
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in the
animated film ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978) and can be heard in many roles in commercially available audio productions of
Shakespeare
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plays. He also played many television roles and was in the film ''
A Kind of Loving'' (1962), directed by
John Schlesinger
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, playing Les.
He died of
lung cancer
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on 26 December 2000 in
Northwood,
Middlesex
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,
England
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.
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Scottish male television actors
Scottish male film actors
1933 births
2000 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer in England
20th-century Scottish male actors