Edward Petherbridge

Mr Fairlie

Theatre: The Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang directed by Adrian Noble (London Palladium); Coupler in The Relapse directed by Trevor Nunn (RNT); Single Spies (West End, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Windsor); one-man show Defending Jeffery Krapp’s Last Tape (Barbican Theatre, New York, Washington, Edinburgh Festival, UK Tour, Arts Theatre, London); Malvolio in Twelfth Night (RSC); Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor ; Cymbeline in Cymbeline ; Player King / Ghost in Hamlet ;The Seagull (The National Theatre) directed by John Caird; Busman’s Honeymoon (Lyric Theatre); The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); The Squirrels (King`s Head); Noel in Noel and Gertie (Duke Of York`s Theatre and National Tour); Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac (Greenwich Theatre). For Chichester Festival Theatre: The Whiskey Priest in The Power and the Glory , Mortimer Quinn in Point Valaine , William in Valentine’s Day directed by Gillian Lynne (also at the Globe Theatre). One man show The Eight O’Clock Mews (The Riverside Studios); Alceste in of The Misanthrope (Bristol Old Vic co-production at National Theatre). For the McKellen / Petherbridge Company at the National Theatre: The Duchess of Malf i, Moon in The Real Inspector Hound , Fretful in The Critic , Gayev in The Cherry Orchard ; International Theatre Festivals in Paris and Chicago. Marsden in Strange Interlude (West End and Broadway); Faulkland in The Rivals (National Theatre); Feste in Twelfth Night (Far East Tour) (London Shakespeare Group). For The Royal Shakespeare Company: Orsino in Twelfth Night , Vershinin in Three Sisters, Otto in No Limits to Love , Armado in Love’s Labours Lost , Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby . For The Actors Company (founder member) : Mirabell in The Way of the World , Tartuffe in Tartuffe , The Fool in King Lear, The Hotel Manager in Ruling the Roost , Soranzo in Tis A Pity Shes a Whore .Othello (National Theatre at The Old Vic); Created the role of Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (National Theatre at The Old Vic).

Television: Prof. Lewis Freeman in Silent Witness (BBC); Three Sisters (RSC); Nicholas Nickleby (RSC); Uncle in Journey’s End (BBC); No Strings (Yorkshire Televison); Liberal MP in Dennis Potter`s Message for Posterity (BBC); Pritchard in Gulliver’s Travels (Jim Henson Productions); A Christmas Caro l (Hallmark Productions); The Bill (ITV); Peregrine Crouchback in Sword of Honour; Lord Peter Wimsey in the Dorothy L Sayers` novels (BBC); Maigret , (Granada); Marsden in Eugene O’Neills Strange Interlude;

Film: Dom Vladimir in The Statement starring Michael Caine.

Directing & Staging: For the Actors Company: A musical review adapted from RD Lang’s book Knots with music by Martin Duncan. The Bacchae; The Beanstalk (Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, Wimbledon Theatre).

Radio: The Wide Brimmed Hat (BBC); Breaking the Silence (Sony Award nomination for Best Actor In A Radio Drama) (BBC).

Recording: Several Audio books including The Lord Peter Wimsey novels; Two Volumes of War and Peace .

Awards: 1988 Sony Award for Best Actor in a Radio Drama for The Wide Brimmed Hat ; Olivier Award and Tony nomination for Marsden in Strange Interlude ; London Critics` Drama Award and Tony nomination for Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby .

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