Royal Shakespeare Company
He was a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in fifty productions with the company between 1975 and 1999. His first season was in director Buzz Goodbody's noted opening year at The Other Place, playing the Ghost to Ben Kingsley's Hamlet and Sir William Stanley in Perkin Warbeck. His later roles included Duncan, opposite Ian McKellen, in Macbeth, Antigonus in The Winter's Tale, Aegeon in A Comedy of Errors, Gower in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Comedy of Errors, Chebutiken and Ferrapont in separate productions of Three Sisters and Tim Linkinwater and Fluggers in Nicholas Nickleby. His last role, at the age of 90, was Tubal in The Merchant of Venice.
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