Actor Portrayals
All film/TV depictions of Roxton have been in adaptations of The Lost World.
- In the first, silent film version, Roxton, a knight instead of a lord, was played by Lewis Stone.
- The 1960 remake featured Michael Rennie as Lord John Roxton.
- In 1997, a radio-style drama of The Lost World was produced for audio cassette/compact disc release by Alien Voices, with John de Lancie as Lord John Roxton.
- A direct-to-video adaptation of 1998 saw Lord John Roxton embodied by David Nerman.
- In a 1999 made-for-cable movie and the syndicated television series which followed it, William Snow portrayed Lord John Richard Roxton.
- A 2001 BBC miniseries adaptation had Tom Ward as John Roxton.
- Another direct-to-video film, the unrecognizably loose (but for Conan Doyle's character names) King of the Lost World, included actor Rhett Giles as a man called John Roxton.
- Surprisingly, the 1992 adaptation and its simultaneously filmed sequel, Return to the Lost World, left Roxton out of their plots.
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