Bertie Wooster - Actors

Actors

Film and TV actors
  • David Niven was the only actor to play Bertie in a theatrical film, in Thank You, Jeeves! (1935). But this film bore almost no resemblance to Wodehouse's fiction, and portrayed Bertie as a woman chaser, the opposite of the usual situation in the stories.
  • Ian Carmichael played the part of Bertie (opposite Dennis Price as Jeeves) in the earlier BBC World of Wooster (1965–1967).
  • Jonathan Cecil (who, like Wooster himself, was an Old Etonian) played him in the tribute Thank You, P. G. Wodehouse (1981).
  • Hugh Laurie (also an Old Etonian) portrayed Bertie in the early-1990s ITV series Jeeves and Wooster opposite his long-time comedy partner, Stephen Fry, as Jeeves.
Radio actors
  • Terry-Thomas played Bertie in a dramatisation of "Jeeves Takes Charge" released as a record album in the 1960s.
  • Richard Briers portrayed Bertie in BBC Radio 4 series What Ho, Jeeves! opposite Michael Hordern as Jeeves. The series ran occasionally from 1973 to 1981.
  • Simon Cadell played Bertie opposite David Suchet as Jeeves in a BBC Saturday Night Theatre radio adaptation of "Right Ho Jeeves" in 1986 and also The Code of the Woosters.
  • Marcus Brigstocke played Bertie in a Radio 4 adaptation of The Code of the Woosters in 2006, with Andrew Sachs as Jeeves.
Audiobook actors

Audiobooks of many of the Jeeves stories and novels have been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer.

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