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__NOTOC__ Roy Marsden (born on June 25 1941 in Stepney , London ) is a British actor. EDUCATION Marsden attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) and spent four terms there. However, he attempted to unionize the students and was thwarted. After one argument he poured a bottle of ink down the front of the director's suit. Marsden recalled, "Two weeks later, he phoned me up and asked if I'd got a job or an agent. I said no, so he arranged for me to start work at a theatre in Nottingham, and who should be the student assistant manager there but Anthony Hopkins . I persuaded him to go to RADA." STAGE In the early 1960s, Marsden worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company then began to accumulate an extensive list of theatrical credits that includes everything from Sternheim , Chekhov and Ibsen to contemporary Soviet playwright Alexander Vampilov . He preferred the alternative experimental theaters of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Birmingham over London's commercial theatre. Appearances include Crispen in "The Friends", 1970; Casca and Lucilius in "Julius Caesar", 1972; Paul Schippel in "Schippel", 1974; Heinrich Krey in "The Plumber's Progress", 1975. He played Long John Silver in " Treasure Island " at London's Mermaid Theatre around Christmas for two years and Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ". TELEVISION Marsden is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the television dramatisations of P.D. James 's detective novels. These included:
George Osborne in Masterpiece Theatre's '' Vanity Fair '', 1972 Neil Burnside in Yorkshire Television 's '' The Sandbaggers '' 1978, about an elite covert operations section of British Intelligence. Arthur Chipping in Masterpiece Theatre 's '' Goodbye Mr. Chips '', 1987; John Bennet in ABC's Inside Story, 1988. There was a guest appearance in The New Avengers (TV Series) ; Space 1999 ; Tales of the Unexpected; and he played a sinister friar in "The Legend of Robin Hood." Yorkshire Television cast him in '' Airline '', a series in which he played Jack Ruskin, a scrappy World War II pilot trying to start his own post-war airline against establishment opposition. It also starred his wife, Polly Hemingway , who was pregnant with their first child during most of the filming. In an interview Marsden said "It was one of the most enjoyable programmes I ever made. Learning to fly those old DC-3 s was terrific. And I enjoyed playing Ruskin enormously because he had hope. Of course, he was a pain up the tushie most of the time, but then you'd see that youthful desire to actually get out and triumph against enormous odds. I identified with that character the most." FILM He has appeared in: ''The Squeeze'', Warner Brothers , 1976; a walk-on part with one line (as a Nazi officer) in the classic '' The Eagle Has Landed ''; as Oberon in ''Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God''; in ''Dangerous Lady'' 1995; ''A Higher Agency'' 2005. OTHER INTERESTS Marsden is married to actress Polly Hemingway and has two sons, one named Joseph. In his spare time, Marsden windsurfs, sails, and restores a 78-year old fishing ketch. Much of his free time is spent with his children and their friends. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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