Ian Trigger

Add links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ian Trigger
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupationactor

Ian Trigger (30 September 1938 – 6 January 2010) was a British actor of stage, film and television who had a successful career in the United States. A diminutive actor, Trigger's long career saw him working in the West End, on Broadway and across America. He first appeared in the United States with the Young Vic company following which he lived there for many years.[1]

Early career

Ian J. Trigger was born in

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1955 making him at that time the youngest student to have trained there. He eventually graduated from RADA in 1959 due to his training being interrupted by two years national service in the army, which he served in Scotland.[1][3] On leaving RADA Trigger did repertory including Henry IV, Part 2 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1960), the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, The Gateway in Edinburgh and the Bristol Old Vic. He then went to the newly formed Traverse Theatre before moving to the West End.[4][5]

Film and television

His television roles included: Raguideau in

Alice Through the Looking-Glass (1973); Joseph's Brother in the TV version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1972); Gideon in It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling (1971); Luko in Ace of Wands (1971); Eddie in Bright's Boffins (1971); Imaginary Man in Six Dates with Barker (1971); Wee Georgie in That's Your Funeral (1971); Dennis in Tales of Unease (1970); in Ken Dodd & the Diddy Men (1969); Goblin in Knock Three Times (1968) with Hattie Jacques; Bobin in Ooh La La! (1968); various roles in The Stanley Baxter Show (1967); Hobgoblin in Kenilworth (1967); Greenwater in The Forsyte Saga (1967);[6] Bank Teller in Beggar My Neighbour (1967); Nonesuch in The Corridor People (1966); Morris Todd in The Wednesday Play (1966); in Frankie Howerd (1966); Operator in Theatre 625 (1965); Opium in A Slight Case of... (1965); in Hugh and I (1965); in Going, Going, Gone! (1965); in The Critics (1965); Rev. Wadmore in The Big Noise (1964); in World of His Own (1964); R. Sammy in Story Parade (1964); Sandy McKinley in Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1964); Ship Tailor in Dixon of Dock Green (1964), and Attendant in The Dark Island (1962).[7]

Film appearances include; The Jeweler in

Pickwick (1969); Popov's assistant in Diamonds for Breakfast (1968),[13] and in Up Jumped a Swagman
(1965).

Stage career

At the

13 Rue de l'Amour (1978); Sir Henry Shorter in Habeas Corpus (1976); Argante in Scapino (1974-1975) at the Ambassador Theatre,[15] and appeared in Blondel at the Theatre Royal, Bath (1983).[4][16]

Among the many young actors mentored by Trigger was the American Lenny Von Dohlen, who later was to appear in Twin Peaks; the two had first met in Oregon during a production of Loot by Joe Orton. Recalling that time, Von Dohlen said: β€œHe was my theatrical father. The first real, working professional to believe in me out loud. He was my greatest influence. The news of his death was a huge shock, like a library burning down.”[1]

His hobbies included collecting 18th-century English theatre portrait figures and 19th-century Staffordshire pottery.[4]

Ian Trigger died aged 71 in January 2010[2] in King's College Hospital in London after a long illness. He never married.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Obituary for Ian Trigger in The Stage - 16 February 2010
  2. ^ a b Mr Ian Trigger in the England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2018 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  3. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    (RADA) website
  4. ^ a b c Ian Trigger - Playbill (1974)
  5. ^ a b Ian Trigger - Theatricalia website
  6. ^ Credits for The Forsyte Saga (1967) - British Film Institute Screenonline
  7. ^ Ian Trigger - The British Comedy Guide
  8. ^ All I Want Is You... and You... and You... (1974) - British Film Institute Filmography
  9. ^ Filmography information Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) - British Film Institute
  10. ^ Up the Chastity Belt (1972) - British Film Institute Filmography
  11. Up Pompeii (1971) - British Film Institute
  12. ^ Winning the Ashes (1971) - British Film Institute website
  13. ^ Filmography information Diamonds for Breakfast (1968) - British Film Institute
  14. ^ a b c Biography for Ian Trigger - Programme for The Tempest at the Oxford Playhouse (1969)
  15. ^ 'You Don't Have to Be Shrewish' - New York Magazine 1 Apr 1974 - Google Books pg. 74
  16. ^ Ian Trigger - Internet Broadway Database

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Trigger&oldid=1196074563"