Tales from Hollywood

Theatre includes in London: The Norman Conquests (Greenwich and Globe Theatres), Zoo Story (Regent's Park), Otherwise Engaged (Queen's and Comedy), Just Between Ourselves (Globe), Alice's Boys (Savoy). With the RSC: When Thou Art King, Henry VIII, The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising, Major Barbara, and most recently, King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra. For the NT at the Old Vic: Hamlet, Saint Joan, The Recruiting Officer, Andorra, Philoctetes, Othello, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, Mother Courage, Love for Love, Juno and the Paycock, The Storm; on the South Bank: Betrayal, Close of Play, Richard III, Othello, Sisterly Feelings, The Life of Galileo (London Drama Critics' Award for Best Actor), Much Ado About Nothing. Many TV appearances include: Eyeless in Gaza, The Other One, The Seagull.

Theatre includes repertory at Nuffield Theatre Southampton (Let's Get a Divorce, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puss in Boots, The Roots of Desire), Sheffield Crucible (Golden Boy). In London: Andy Capp (Aldwych). TV: TV Eye, Marathon, Educating Marmalade, Pope John Paul II.

Theatre includes repertory at Liverpool Playhouse, Swan Worcester, Theatre Royal York. In London: Pericles, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Roundhouse). Two years with Prospect Theatre Company. TV includes: The Saint, The New Avengers, Minder, Z Cars, Softly Softly, The Professionals, Nancy Astor, Maybury. Films: A Bridge Too Far, Flash Gordon, Reds, Yanks, Lionman, Wrath of the Witch Queen.

Many film appearances include: Taras Bulba, Nicholas and Alexandra, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Mr Sardonicus, King of Kings, Yesterday's Enemy, King of the Khyber Rifles, The Thief of Baghdad, Young Bess. Television appearances include: The Secret Army, Kessler, Churchill's People, Portrait in Black, Troubleshooters, The Avengers, Space 1999, The Saint, Departments.

Theatre includes repertory at Birmingham. In London: The Fool (Royal Court), On the Out (Bush), The Jolly Green Soldier (Croydon Warehouse), The Changeling, One Fine Day, Artists and Admirers (Riverside), Waiting (Lyric Hammersmith). Tour of Holland with the American Repertory Theatre, TV includes: Please Sir, No Honestly, Churchill's People, Destiny, Get Some In, Crown Court, Sounding Brass, Over There, Teezer, Angels, Juliet Bravo, Holding the Fort, Getting On. Film: In Search of Gregory.

Theatre includes repertory at Canterbury, Oxford, and appearances in musicals and pantomime. In London: Winnie the Pooh (Phoenix), The Good Old Bad Old Days (Prince of Wales), Beautiful Dreamer (Greenwich). RSC: Nil Carborundum. TV includes: Z Cars, Arrival 2, The David Essex Show, New Faces, On The Fringe, and a comedy series in South Africa.

Theatre includes a one-woman show, Sentimental songs of Poor BB (tour to Berlin, Ilford, Croydon, Battersea, Soho Poly and Theatrespace), repertory at Neuss/Dusseldorf; two seasons with Theatermanufaktur, Berlin; played Helene Weigel in Brecht's Women (Northern Studio Theatre tour); directed Bremen Coffee for The Room, then Spice of Life and took over the lead when it transferred to the King's Head. Films: The Draughtsman's Contract, Catch a King. TV: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, series The Brief.

Theatre: first West End appearance: Fagin in Oliver (Albery, 1962), The Bed Sitting Room (Duke of York's), Kiss Me Kate (Coliseum), Gulliver's Travels (Mermaid), The Friends (Roundhouse), The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte (Shaw), Treetops (Riverside), the English premiere of Anouilh's The Scenario (Canada), 13 Rue de l'Amour and Hobson's Choice (Australia), The Price (Leicester). TV includes: Never Mind the Quality (series), Justin Thyme (co-author), Mrs Acland's Ghosts, The Cafeteria, Design for Living, Meriel the Ghost Girl, It's a Square World (series), Q series with Spike Milligan, and Home Sweet Home (series in Australia). Films include: Return of the Pink Panther, Help, A Hard Day's Night, Digby, Never Mind the Quality, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Great Magonagle, Captain Invincible, Superman III.

Theatre includes in London: Epitaph for George Dillon, The Sport of My Mad Mother, The Knack (all at the Royal Court); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Criterion), RSC: Richard III, The Tempest, King John, The Balcony, Enemies, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sherlock Holmes (both the latter also in New York - nominated for Tony Award for Sherlock Holmes), The Bewitched. NT: Oedipus, The Covent Garden Tragedy, As You Like It, Edward II, Love's Labour's Lost, Scrabble, Back to Methuselah, Hamlet (Plays and Players Award for Best Supporting Actor), Troilus and Cressida, Tamburlaine The Great, The Force of Habit, Amadeus. Riverside Studios: The Cherry Orchard. Royal Festival Hall: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Opera: A Christmas Carol (Sadler's Wells). Recent TV includes: She Fell Among Thieves, Pennies from Heaven, Butterflies Don't Count, Mill on the Floss, Dead Man's Kit, Dick Turpin, Omega Factor, Oliver Twist, The Disappearance of Harry, Codename Icarus, The Young Delinquent. Films include: Thunderball, Hitler — the Last Ten Days, Escape to Athens, Porridge, Ivanhoe, just completed Fellini's Et Le Nave Va.

Theatre includes in London: Hotel Paradiso (Winter Garden), Progress to the Park (Saville), Alphabetical Order (Hampstead and May Fair), Molly (Comedy). At the Royal Court: Not I, Footfalls, Happy Days. With the RSC: After Haggerty, The Greeks, Passion Play. NT at the Old Vic: Play, The Dutch Courtesan, Othello, Hobson's Choice, Trelawny of the Wells; on the South Bank: Rockaby. Films include: No Love for Johnny, Eagle in a Cage, The Twisted Nerve, Charlie Bubbles (American Critics prize and BAFTA award), Gumshoe, Frenzy, Nightwatch, Start the Revolution Without Me, Leo the Last, The Omen (Evening News award), The Water Babies, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Dark Crystal, Slayground. TV includes: The Skin Game, Love on the Dole, No Trams to Lime Street, A World of Time, Sextet (BAFTA Award), The Withered Arm, Happy Days, The Serpent Son, But the Clouds, Eustace and Hilda, Private Schultz, Jamaica Inn.

Theatre includes repertory at Liverpool, Glasgow, Hornchurch, Windsor, Watford, Lincoln and Nairobi. Toured South Africa in theatre, TV and radio. Work in London includes The Mousetrap (St Martin's), A Provincial Life (Royal Court), The Other House (Mermaid). RSC: one year including Gertrude, for a short time to David Warner's Hamlet. NT: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Second Mrs Tanqueray. TV includes: Dixon of Dock Green, Fawlty Towers, The Gentle Touch.

Theatre includes repertory at Birmingham and Coventry. London: The Man Most Likely To. NT: Hamlet, Tamburlaine the Great, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Julius Caesar, Volpone, The Cherry Orchard, Brand, Macbeth, The Woman, Strife, The Fruits of Enlightenment, Undiscovered Country, Richard III, The Wild Duck, Othello, The Life of Galileo, The Romans in Britain, Amadeus (at Her Majesty's), The Rivals. TV includes: The Newcomers, Johnny Sahib, Crossroads. Films include: Nicholas Nickleby, A Matter of Life and Death, Street Corner.

Theatre includes repertory at Plymouth, Folkestone, Bath, Lyceum Crewe, New Theatre Hull, Library Manchester. Worked in Europe with the English Speaking Theatre. London: The Tigers are Coming (Hampstead), Inherit the Wind, Waiting for Lefty. Most recently: On the Twentieth Century (Her Majesty's).

Theatre in the West End includes: Portrait in Black, The Rossiters, Angel, My Wives and I, Bred in the Bone, September Tide, Treasure Hunt, The Shadow of Doubt, Tabitha, The Way of the World, The Iron Duchess, Brouhaha. NT: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Strawberry Fields, Sir is Winning, The Lady from Maxim's, The Guardsman, Plunder, Close of Play. TV includes: Sense and Sensibility, The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe, The Antoma White Quartet, Tales of the Unexpected, Shine on Harvey Moon. Films include: Reach for the Sky, Appointment in London, Carve Her Name With Pride, The Horse's Mouth.

Theatre includes repertory at Northampton, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Windsor and Richmond Yorkshire. Two seasons at Stratford-upon-Avon. Recently: Da (King's Head and Greenwich), Harvest (Ambassadors). NT: The Long Voyage Home. TV includes: Poldark, War and Peace, Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Late Call, A Pin to See the Peepshow, A Horseman Riding By, Funny Man, Crossroads, Goodnight God Bless. Radio: drama, children's serials and The Archers.

Theatre includes repertory at Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield and Bath. West End appearances include: Waltz of the Toreadors and Pygmalion. TV: includes: Secret Army, A Pin to See the Peepshow, The Duke of Wellington, The Balance of Nature; recently for US television, Separate Tables.

Theatre includes repertory at Birmingham Rep, Crucible Sheffield. At the NT: Plunder, The Philanderer, Early Days. At Hampstead: Short List, The Perfectionist. TV includes: A Family at War, Love on a Gunboat, Murder Most English, Afternoon Dancing, Maybury, The Gentle Touch, Flight Fund, Standing in for Henry, The Bagthorpes, Open All Hours, Lucky Jim, The Barchester Chronicles. Film: Britannia Hospital.

Theatre includes Galileo, Timon of Athens (Glasgow Citizens); Peer Gynt (Oxford Playhouse); The Wild Duck (Royal Exchange, Manchester). In Paris: six months with the Theatre National Populaire. RSC: Destiny, Days of the Commune, Macbeth, Dingo, That Good Between Us (Plays and Players Award: Most Promising New Performer); Ezra, The Worlds (Half Moon); Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Mermaid); Mephisto (Roundhouse); The Love of a Good Man, Seduced, Insignificance (Royal Court — SWET Award for Best Actor for the latter). Films: The Awakening, Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, Richard's Things, Dragonslayer and most recently The Nation's Health, Gorky Park, Return of the Jedi.

Recent theatre includes leading roles at Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep and the Royal Exchange Manchester. For the RSC: Henry V, Henry VI Part 3, As You Like It, Tis Pity She's a Whore, Saratoga, Othello, Coriolanus. NT: They Are Dying Out (Workshop). TV: The Sporting Club Dinner, Love in a Cold Climate, Strangers, Dombey and Son, Caleb Williams, Reilly.

Theatre includes repertory at Manchester Library, Guildford, Leicester, Oxford Playhouse, Manchester Royal Exchange, Northcott Exeter, Bristol Old Vic. In London: Does This Train Stop at Southend?, Herr Puntila and His Man Matti (Stratford East), Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith), Present Laughter (Vaudeville), Hobson's Choice (Haymarket). TV includes: The Imitation Game, To Serve Them All Our Days, A Brothers' Tale, Cabbage Patch.

Repertory at Leicester, Cheltenham, Wolverhampton, Ipswich, Chester, Crewe, Salisbury, Belfast. In London: Funeral Games (Little Theatre), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (New End), The Portage to San Cristobal of A H (Mermaid), Bedtime Story (King's Head). Spent two years with the Royal Ballet Company's Ballet for All group. His own one-man show The Best of Times is Now was at Brighton and in Ireland in 1983 and will be seen in London next year. NT: Don Quixote, Way Upstream, The Rivals. TV includes: five years as Sergeant Chubb in Z Cars.

Theatre includes: repertory at Canterbury, Wolverhampton, Windsor, Nottingham, Bromley. In London: Otherwise Engaged (Queen's and Comedy), Absurd Person Singular (Vaudeville), The Philanthropist (May Fair), All My Sons (Wyndham's). TV includes: The Professionals, House of Caradus, Why Can't I Co Home?, Love Story, Kate, Dead of Night, Troubleshooters, Hine, Brett, Minder, Buccaneer, QED. Films: Tamarind Seed, Double Negative.

Theatre includes repertory at Leicester (Once a Catholic, Godspell, Local Affairs), Darlington (Dick Whittington), York (Robinson Crusoe); at Stratford East: Mrs Tucker's Pageant. TV: Squadron, The Fourth Arm.

Theatre includes repertory at Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol Old Vic, Exeter, Worthing, Guildford, Liverpool, Cheltenham. Recently Man and Superman (Haymarket and Cambridge Theatres). NT: Harlequinade (and tour to US), The Elephant Man. TV includes: Z Cars, Softly Softly, Public Eye, Leap in the Dark, All Creatures Great and Small, Sam's Christmas Tree, Going Home, Another Drummer, Man and Superman.

Work at the Royal Court, where he was Associate Director from 1970 to 1972, includes A Collier's Friday Night, The Local Stigmatic, The Ruffian on the Stair, A Provincial Life (which he also adapted), A Soldier's Fortune, The Daughter-in-Law, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Life Price, The Duchess of Malfi, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Merry-Go-Round (which he also adapted), and his own plays Over Gardens Out, The Sleepers' Den and Small Change. RSC: Twelfth Night. At Riverside Studios, where he was director from 1976 to 1980, directed As You Like It, Small Change, The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Scrape off the Black. Work abroad includes Much Ado About Nothing (Stratford Connecticut), Hedda Gabler, Macbeth (Stratford Ontario), Landscape, Silence (Lincoln Center, New York), Fishing (Public Theater, New York). NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado About Nothing, Danton's Death, Major Barbara and his own plays Small Change and Kick for Touch.

Work includes designing over 40 plays at Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent. In London: Old King Cole (Stratford East), Ecstasy, Uncle Vanya (Hampstead), Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Plays Umbrella Season (Riverside). Member of the British theatre designers who won first prize at 1979 Prague Quadriennale Exhibition. NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado About Nothing, The Prince of Homburg, Danton's Death, Major Barbara, Kick for Touch. RSC: Tartuffe.

Recently lit shows at Oxford Playhouse, New End Hampstead, King's Head, Arts. NT: Overruled (Young Vic), Crossing Niagara, Bloody Neighbours (ICA), Emigres, Troilus and Cressida (with David Hersey), Bread (Young Vic), Strawberry Fields, Camilla Ringbinder Show, Bow Down, The Passion (with William Dudley), Half Life, Love Letters on Blue Paper, Herod, Don Juan, Much Ado About Nothing, Danton's Death, Major Barbara, Kick for Touch, Small Change. In the West End: Boogie.

Work includes arrangements for Rod McKuen, Robin Gibb, Justin Hayward, Jon Anderson. Theatre: arranging and music directing for Oxford Playhouse, Leicester Haymarket, Hornchurch, Exeter, Norwich, Scottish Ballet, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court (Restoration). For the NT: Guys and Dolls (co-arranger and assistant MD), On the Razzle (deputy MD), The Beggar's Opera (deputy MD), Schweyk in the Second World War (assistant MD). TV includes orchestrations for The Squad, Love is Old, Love is New, Oliver Twist.

Books quoted and consulted: Aller Tage Abend (At the End of the Day) by Fritz Kortner, Greatness and Misery of Exile by Lion Feuchtwanger, Leben am Pazifik (Life on the Pacific Coast) by Alfred Polgar, Nehmt nur mem Leben (Just Take My Life) by Marlene Dietrich, Photograph of Christopher Hampton © Vogue 1980, reproduced by kind permission of Conde Nast Publications.