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
An accomplished, imaginative player of both comedy and drama, Paul Bentall has been a member of the RSC since 1990: Maz/Pete Gavin in Showboat (Ian Judge, RST, 1990); Larry Banks in Alan Ayckbourn's Wildest Dreams (Ayckbourn, Pit, 1993, Swan, 1994); Lord in The Taming of the Shrew (Gale Edwards, RST, 1995, Barbican, 1996); Artemidorus in Julius Caesar (Peter Hall, RST, 1995, Barbican, 1996); Lord Hastings in Richard III (Steven Pimlott, RST, 1995, Barbican, 1996); Poet etc. in the Howard Brenton/Michael Bogdanov Faust (Pit, 1996); Gardiner in Henry VIII (Gregory Doran, Swan, 1996-97, Young Vic, 1998); Pisanio in Cymbeline (Adrian Noble, RST, 1997, Barbican, 1998); Don Cyprian in The Spanish Tragedy (Michael Boyd, Swan, 1997, Pit, 1997-98); Pantaloon in Goldoni's A Servant to Two Masters (Tim Supple, TOP, 1999-00, Young Vic and Small-scale Tour, 2000, New Ambassadors, 2000-01); Gripe in Love in a Wood (Supple, Swan, 2001); Shakespeare/Charles Macklin/George Steevens in Peter Barnes's Jubilee (Doran, Swan, 2001); and Doran's season of rarities (Swan, 2002, Gielgud, 2002-03)—Copland/Douglas/Villiers in Edward III (Anthony Clark), Security in Eastward Ho! (Lucy Pitman-Wallace), Equato in The Malcontent (Dominic Cooke).
The early phase of his career included productions by Philip Prowse at the Glasgow Citizens' (Trigorin in The Seagull, Owen Marshall in Noël Coward's Semi-Monde, Fedya in Robert David MacDonald's Chinchilla, 1977) and by Peter Gill at the Riverside Studios (Soothsayer in Julius Caesar, 1980) and the National (A Month in the Country, La Violette in Don Juan, Sexton in Much Ado About Nothing, Ballad singer in Howard Brenton's version of Büchner's Danton's Death, 1981-82). Other work on the South Bank: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (John Burgess, Cottesloe, 1981); Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg (Burgess, Cottesloe, 1982); Horatio in The Spanish Tragedy (Bogdanov, Cottesloe, 1982); Strozzi in John Fowles's version of Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio (Bogdanov, Olivier, 1983); Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You (Bogdanov, Lyttelton, 1983); Strider, the Story of a Horse (Bogdanov, Cottesloe, 1984); Animal Farm (Peter Hall, Cottesloe, 1984); Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer (Giles Block, Lyttelton, 1984); The Ancient Mariner (Bogdanov, Olivier, 1984); Ian Hubbard in Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval (Ayckbourn, Olivier, 1985); and Basil in Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Jonathan Lynn, Olivier, 1986). In 2005 he returned to the National to appear alongside Jim Broadbent in Lee Simpson and Phelim McDermott's Theatre of Blood (Lyttelton).
Education: Drama Centre, London
RSC: Joined 1990
Seasons: 1990 (Strat.); 1993/94 (Lond./Strat.); 1995 (Strat.)-96 (Lond.); 1996/97 (Strat.)-97/98 (Lond.); 1999/00 (Strat.)-00/01 (Lond.); 2001 (Strat.); 2002 (Strat.)-02/03 (Lond.)
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