B < > Baal Babies Grow Old Back to Methuselah Bad Weather George Baker Sean Baker The Balcony Bandits Teresa Banham Barbarians Frances Barber The Barbican Howard Barker Peter Barnes Desmond Barrit Bartholomew Fair John Barton Linda Bassett Bastard Angel Alan Bates Simon Russell Beale Sean Bean The Beast Maureen Beattie Francis Beaumont Beauty and the Beast The Beaux' Stratagem Becket Samuel Beckett Beckett Shorts The Beggar's Opera Brendan Behan Katy Behean Aphra Behn Belcher's Luck Believe What You Will Christopher Benjamin Paul Bentall John Berger Sarah Berger Cicely Berry Suzanne Bertish Kirsty Besterman Paul Bettany The Bewitched Bingo Birdsong The Birthday Party The Bite of the Night Colin Blakely Claudie Blakley Marjorie Bland Brian Blessed The Blue Angel The Body Michael Bogdanov Robert Bolt Edward Bond Samantha Bond Ken Bones Hugh Bonneville Laurence Boswell John Bott Dion Boucicault John Bowe Raymond Bowers Robert Bowman Stephen Boxer Michael Boyd Danny Boyle David Bradley John Bradley Cathryn Bradshaw Kenneth Branagh Brand Breaking the Silence Bertolt Brecht Howard Brenton David Brierley The Bright and Bold Design Stephen Brimson Lewis Jasper Britton Brixton Stories Jim Broadbent The Broken Heart Richard Brome Peter Brook Siân Brooke Brooklyn Academy of Music Bille Brown Susan Brown Brenda Bruce Emily Bruni Giordano Bruno Robert Bryan Georg Büchner Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Bundle Anthony Burgess Alfred Burke Alan Burrett John Bury Judy Buxton Patsy Byrne Lord Byron		Christopher Benjamin A distinguished character actor, Christopher Benjamin initially joined the RSC to play Vincent Crummles and Walter Bray in Nicholas Nickleby (Trevor Nunn/John Caird, Aldwych, 1980, Aldwych, 1981, New York, 1981). He has since played an impressive range of characters: Stephano in The Tempest (Ron Daniels, RST, 1982, Barbican, 1983); Dogberry, succeeding Terry Wood, in Much Ado About Nothing (Terry Hands, Newcastle and Barbican, 1983, International Tour, 1984); Archie in Nick Darke's The Body (Nick Hamm, Pit, 1983); Arden, succeeding Bruce Purchase, in Arden of Faversham (Hands, Pit, 1983); Montfleury, succeeding Michael Fitzgerald, in Cyrano de Bergerac (Hands, Barbican, 1983, US Tour, 1984); Polonius, succeeding Frank Middlemass, in Hamlet (Daniels, Barbican, 1985); Pope Clement VI in Peter Barnes's Red Noses (Hands, Barbican, 1985); Holofernes, succeeding Frank Middlemass, in Love's Labour's Lost (Barry Kyle, Barbican, 1985); Sir Nicholas, succeeding Freddie Jones, in The Virtuoso (Phyllida Lloyd, Pit, 1992); The Prince in Ostrovsky's Artists and Admirers (Lloyd, Pit, 1992); Martin Alonzo Pinzon in Richard Nelson's Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (Caird, Barbican, 1992); Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Adrian Noble, RST, 1995, Barbican, 1996); Sir Tunbelly in The Relapse (Ian Judge, Swan, 1995, Pit, 1996); the title role in Julius Caesar (Peter Hall, RST, 1995, Barbican, 1996); Bottom in the 1996 revival of Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barbican and Tour); Kent in the Nigel Hawthorne King Lear (Yukio Ninagawa, Tokyo, Barbican and RST, 1999); and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (Gregory Doran, RST and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2002). His other theatre work includes: Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves (Ian Strachan, Greenwich Theatre and Duke of York's, 1988); Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Guy Slater, Regent's Park, 1989); Orgon in Tartuffe (Lou Stein, Palace, Watford, 1990); General Bridgenorth in Shaw's Getting Married (Chichester, 1993); Sterling in The Clandestine Marriage (Nigel Hawthorne, Queen's Theatre, 1994); the mayor in The Front Page (Sam Mendes, Donmar Warehouse, 1997); and Mangan in Heartbreak House (Christopher Morahan, Chichester, 2000). He has worked prolifically on television: Danger Man: Koroshi (1966); Prosper Profond in The Forsyte Saga (1967); The Avengers (1967); The Prisoner (1967-68); The Saint (1968); Doctor Who (1970, 1977); Budgie (1972); Baffled! (1972); Van der Valk (1973); Poldark (1975); When the Boat Comes In (1976); Dick Turpin (1979); Chintz (1981); Nicholas Nickleby (1982); Honour, Profit and Pleasure (1985); Blott on the Landscape (1985); The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986); Boon (1987); The Diary of Anne Frank (1987); Casanova (1987); The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990); The Tomorrow People (1992); Inspector Morse ('Cherubim and Seraphim', 1992); The Black Velvet Gown (1993); Hard Times (1994); Lovejoy (1994); Pride and Prejudice (1995); Seesaw (1998); and The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999).	Actor, b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1934 Education: RADA RSC: Joined 1980 Seasons: 1980 (Lond.); 1981 (Lond./New York); 1982 (Strat.)-83/84 (Lond./International Tour); 1985 (Lond.); 1992 (Lond.); 1995 (Strat.)-96 (Lond.); 1996 (Lond./Tour); 1999 (Tokyo/Lond.)-99/00 (Strat.); 2002 (Strat., RST company)-02 (Lond.)
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