Tim Pigott-Smith, Esq's Biography

Tim Pigott-Smith, Esq's Professional Career

Career

actor, director and writer; govr Bd RSC 2005, govr Bd Hampstead Theatre 2010; Hon DLitt: Univ of Leicester, Univ of Bristol; Theatre numerous tours and rep incl: Birmingham, Cambridge, Nottingham and Bristol; Bristol Old Vic 1969 (incl: Major Barbara, As You Like It), Prospect Theatre 1970-71 (incl: Much Ado About Nothing, Boswell's Johnson, Hamlet (tour and West End)), RSC 1972-75 (incl: Roman Plays, Cymbeline, Dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes (London and Broadway), RNT 1987-88 (incl: Coming into Land, Octavius Caesar in Antony & Cleopatra, Henry Moule in Entertaining Strangers, Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, Tempest); other credits incl: Traps (Royal Court) 1977, Benefactors (Vaudeville) 1984, Bengal Lancer (Leicester Haymarket and Lyric Hammersmith) 1985, Old Times 1993, Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre (Playhouse) 1993-94, Robert Ross in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lyric Hammersmith) 1994, Retreat (Orange Tree) 1995, The Letter (Lyric Hammersmith) 1995, The Alchemist, Mary Stuart (RNT) 1996, Heritage (Hampstead Theatre Club) 1997, The Iceman Cometh (Almeida, Old Vic and Broadway) 1998-99, Five Kinds of Silence (Lyric Hammersmith) 2000, Julius Caesar (Barbican) 2002, Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith) 2002, Mourning Becomes Electra (RNT) 2003, Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse) 2004, Women Beware Women (RSC) 2006, See How They Run (Duchess) 2006, Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Bath and nat tour) 2007 and 2008 and (Old Vic) 2008, Little Nell (Theatre Royal, Bath) 2007, Enron (Noel Coward Theatre) 2010 (nomination Best Supporting Actor Olivier Award 2010), Educating Rita (Trafalgar Studios) 2010, A Delicate Balance (Almeida) 2011, King Lear (W Yorks Playhouse) 2011; Compass Theatre (artistic dir 1989-92) incl: Julius Caesar, Amadeus, Royal Hunt of the Sun (dir) 1989, Playing the Wife (dir); also dir Company by Samuel Beckett (Edinburgh, Fringe First Award) 1987, Hamlet (Regent's Park) 1994, The Real Thing (nat tour); Television incl: The Glittering Prizes, Wings, Eustace and Hilda, The Lost Boys, Henry IV (part 1), Measure for Measure, Fame is the Spur, School Play, Francis Crick in Life Story, The True Adventures of Christopher Columbus, The Bullion Boys, The Shadowy Third, No Mama No, I Remember Nelson, The Traitor, Struggle, Wilderness Years, Ronald Merrick in Jewel in the Crown (BAFTA, TV Times, Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor Awards), The Chief, Calcutta Chronicles (documentary), Innocents, The Vice, Pompeii, Eroica, North and South, Taken at the Flood, Holby Blue, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War 2009, On Expenses 2009, Money 2009, The Little House 2010, The Hour 2011, Strike Back 2012, Downton Abbey 2012; Film incl: Aces High, Joseph Andrews, Sweet William, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Day Christ Died, Richard's Things, Clash of the Titans, Escape to Victory, State of Emergency, Remains of the Day, Bloody Sunday, Laissez Passer, Gangs of New York, The Four Feathers, Alexander, Entente Cordiale, V for Vendetta, Fly Boys, Quantum of Solace, Alice in Wonderland

Tim Pigott-Smith, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Out of India (anthology, 1986), Baker Street Mysteries (series incl The Dragon Tattoo (2007), Rose of Africa (2009) and The Shadow of Evil (2009))

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