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		John Bott ([1923]-1994) A late starter, John Bott was forty-one when a BBC radio job initiated his career as a professional actor (1964). His subsequent early stage work included repertory in Northampton and Worcester and the following performances in London: Sullivan in Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography (Basement Theatre, 1970); McCorquodale in Funeral Games (Basement Theatre, 1970); Pierre Lannes in The Lovers of Viorne (Royal Court, 1971); Duke of Venice in Othello (Mermaid, 1971); Cotton in Cato Street (Young Vic, 1971); and Pradah Singh in Conduct Unbecoming (Queen's, 1970-71). The rest of his career was dominated by two periods of work at the RSC (1972-77 and 1988-94): Titus Lartius in Coriolanus (Trevor Nunn/Buzz Goodbody, RST, 1972, Aldwych, 1973); Balthazar in The Comedy of Errors (Clifford Williams, RST, 1972); Soothsayer in Julius Caesar (Trevor Nunn/Buzz Goodbody, Aldwych, 1973); Soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra (Trevor Nunn/Buzz Goodbody, Aldwych, 1973); Bennett in Tom Stoppard's Travesties (Peter Wood, Aldwych, 1974, Aldwych, 1975, Albery and US Tour, 1975); Count Von Stalberg in Sherlock Holmes (Frank Dunlop, US Tour, 1974); Banks in Wild Oats (Williams, Aldwych, 1976, RST, 1977, Piccadilly, 1977); Old Man/Old Siward/Scottish Doctor in Macbeth (Adrian Noble, RST, 1988, Barbican, 1989); Handy in The Man of Mode (Garry Hynes, Swan, 1988, Pit, 1989); Gaoler in Edward Bond's Restoration (Roger Michell, Swan, 1988, not London 1989); Baldwin in Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad (Michell, Pit, 1989); Dr Herdal in The Master Builder (Noble, Barbican, 1989); Balthasar in The Comedy of Errors (Ian Judge, RST, 1990, not London 1991); Warwick/Rice ap Howell in Edward II (Gerard Murphy, Swan, 1990, Pit, 1991); John Sefton/Washington Irving in Nelson's Two Shakespearean Actors (Michell, Swan, 1990, Pit, 1991); Bishop of Carlisle in Richard II (Ron Daniels, RST, 1990, Barbican, 1991); Archdeacon Daubeny in A Woman of No Importance (Philip Prowse, Barbican, 1991); Poole in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Peter Wood, Barbican, 1991); Corin in As You Like It (David Thacker, RST, 1992, Barbican, 1993); Archidamus/Paulina's Steward in The Winter's Tale (Noble, RST, 1992, Barbican, 1993, European Tour, 1993); and Bardolph in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Thacker, RST, 1992). In 1974 he published The Figure of the House: the Remarkable Story of the Building of Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He died in America during the RSC's 1994 tour of The Winter's Tale.	Actor, b. Douglas, Isle of Man RSC: Joined 1972 Seasons: 1972 (Strat.)-73 (Lond.); 1974 (Lond.); 1975 (Lond.); 1976/77 (Lond./Strat./Lond.); 1988 (Strat.)-89 (Lond.); 1990 (Strat.)-91 (Lond.); 1992 (Strat.)-93/94 (Lond./International Tour)
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