Dr Oliver Ford Davies's Biography

Dr Oliver Ford Davies's Professional Career

Career

actor; lectr in history Univ of Edinburgh 1964-66; seasons at: Birmingham, Cambridge, Leicester, Oxford, Nottingham; hon assoc artist RSC; Theatre 32 prodns with RSC incl: Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Love's Labour's Lost, The Greeks, Troilus and Cressida, The Love Girl and The Innocent, The Forest, Measure for Measure, Waste (also Lyric 1985), The Danton Affair, Principia Scriptoriae, Merry Wives of Windsor, Jekyll and Hyde, Hamlet 2008, Love's Labour's Lost 2008-09, Written on the Heart 2011-12; RNT 1988-91: The Shaughraun, Hamlet, Lionel Espy in Racing Demon (Olivier Award for Actor of the Year), The Shape of the Table, The Absence of War 1993, Playing with Fire 2005, Galileo 2006, St Joan 2007, Much Ado About Nothing 2007, All's Well That Ends Well 2009; other credits incl: Bishop Talacryn in Hadrian VII (Mermaid, Haymarket) 1968-69, Tonight at Eight (Hampstead, Fortune) 1971-72, Mary Rose 1972, 1975-87, Heartbreak House (Yvonne Arnaud Guildford and Haymarket) 1992, Ivanov (Almeida) 1997, Naked (Almeida) 1998, Richard II and Coriolanus (Almeida/Gainsborough) 2000, King Lear (Almeida) 2002, Absolutely! (perhaps) (Wyndham's) 2003, King Cromwell, The Linden Tree, Larkin with Women (Orange Tree Richmond), The Crucible (Regents Park) 2010, Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester) 2011; Television incl: Cause Celebre, A Taste for Death, Death of a Son, A Very British Coup, Inspector Morse, The Police, The Cloning of Joanna May, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, The Absence of War, Truth or Dare, A Royal Scandal, A Dance to the Music of Time, Kavanagh QC, David Copperfield, The Way We Live Now, Bertie and Elizabeth, Sparkling Cyanide, The Badness of King George IV, Spooks, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders; Film incl: Defence of the Realm, Scandal, Paper Mask, Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Brown, Mrs Dalloway, Star Wars I and II, Johnny English, The Mother, The Deep Blue Sea

Dr Oliver Ford Davies's Publications

Books and Publications

God Keep Lead out of Me - Shakespeare on War and Peace (jtly, 1985), Playing Lear (2003), King Cromwell (2005), Performing Shakespeare (2007); also written plays produced by Orange Tree Theatre, ATV and BBC Radio

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