Richard Pasco

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Richard Pasco
Warwickshire, England, UK
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active1954–2002
Spouse(s)Greta Watson (1956–1964) (1 child)
Barbara Leigh-Hunt (1967–2014) (his death)
ChildrenWilliam (b. 1960)

Richard Edward Pasco,

stage, screen and TV actor
.

Early life

Pasco was born in

Central School of Speech and Drama, where he won the gold medal. He then spent three years with the Birmingham Repertory Company
.

Career

One of his earliest screen appearances was as Teddy in

.

During his lengthy stage career, which began in 1943, he worked with the

BBC Pebble Mill producer David Shute. He portrayed Lieutenant-Commander Ericson in the 1980 BBC Radio adaptation of Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. His TV credits include the role of Brutus in Julius Caesar and the "melancholy" Jacques in As You Like It (1979) by William Shakespeare in the BBC's Shakespeare cycle. Pasco played the leading part of Stephen Sorrell in the 1984 TV mini-series Sorrell and Son.[4]

His later work includes

(1998).

Personal life and death

He married actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt in 1967. He died aged 88 on 12 November 2014.[5]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow Dr. Fisher
1959 Room at the Top Teddy
1959 Dial 999 (TV series) ('Deadly Blackmail', episode) Willard Billed as 'Willard', but his character's name is never spoken.
1959 Yesterday's Enemy 2nd Lt Hastings
1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest Edward, Earl of Newark
1964 Hot Enough for June Plakov
1964 The Gorgon Paul Heitz
1966
Rasputin, the Mad Monk
Dr. Zargo
1979 Julius Caesar Brutus TV movie
1980 The Watcher in the Woods Tom Colley
1984 Arch of Triumph Veber
1997 Mrs Brown Doctor Jenner
1997 A Dance to the Music of Time Sir Magnus Donners

References

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  2. ^ "ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA - Leading Actors L - R". Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  3. ^ Coveney, Michael (6 October 2005). "A king with a PM's problems". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2009. the greatest RSC productions...the best ever was John Barton's with Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco
  4. ^ "Sorrell and Son (TV Mini Series 1984) - IMDb". IMDb.
  5. ^ PASCO

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