Roger Allam
Roger Allam | |
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Born | Roger William Allam 26 October 1953 Bow, London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse | Rebecca Saire |
Children | 2 |
Website | all-allam |
Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is a British actor, who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio.
He played
He has been nominated six times for a
Life and career
Allam was born in Bow, London, England. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Manchester University.[1][2] His father was rector of St Mary Woolnoth.[3]
He played Mercutio for the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1983.[4]
From 1985 to 1986, he played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables.
He has also appeared in many radio dramas for the BBC. In 2001, he starred in
In 2003, he appeared as former
In 2006 he appeared in
In 2008, Allam played the role of
In January 2012, he starred in the first series of Endeavour, the prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse, playing the gruff but kind-hearted Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, young Endeavour Morse's mentor in 1960s Oxford. By 2018 Allam had portrayed his central character in five additional well-received series, which are also aired in America as part of the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series. In March 2019, the show's sixth season had concluded on ITV, was scheduled for broadcast in the summer in the United States, and had been recommissioned for a seventh season to be set in 1970.[8]
In April 2012 he also starred as Serebrayakov in the play
Allam narrated the Channel 4 series The Auction House.[11]
In October and November 2016 Allam appeared as Brigadier Adrian Stone in the BBC series The Missing.[12]
Since January 2020, Allam has co-starred with Joanna Lumley in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series Conversations from a Long Marriage.[13] As of February 2023, the show is in its fourth series.[14]
In March 2022, Allam debuted in the lead role of Antoine Verlaque in Murder in Provence, a BritBox cosy crime drama based on the Verlaque & Bonnet detective novels by ML Longworth, alongside Nancy Carroll (The Crown) as his romantic partner Marine Bonnet.[15][16]
Allam voices the demon
Personal life
Allam is married to actress Rebecca Saire, with whom he has two sons, William, an actor, and Thomas.[17] He, Rebecca and William appeared together in the Endeavour episode Raga (series 7, episode 2, broadcast February 2020). In that episode, Rebecca and William played mother and son.[18][19]
He identifies as being on the political left, and has also publicly castigated Donald Trump.[20][21]
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Theatre |
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1976 | Vinegar Tom | Doctor/Man/Bellringer/Packer | Humberside Theatre, Hull |
1979 | Mary Barnes | Lecturer/Angie's brother | Royal Court Theatre |
1981 | Twin Rivals | Subtleman/Richmore | |
1981 | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Outlaw | |
1981 | Titus Andronicus | Demetrius | |
1981, 1983 | All's Well That Ends Well | Morgan | Martin Beck Theatre (1983)
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1982 | Our Friends in the North | Conrad | |
1982 | Poppy | Lin | |
1983 | The Charge of the Light Brigade (RSC Festival) | Terence Gawain Hackett | |
1983 | Typhoid Mary (RSC Festival) | Dr Soper | |
1984 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
1984 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus/Oberon | |
1984 | Richard III | Clarence | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
1984 | Today | Victor Ellison | |
1984 | The Party | Ford | |
1985 | The Dream Play | The Officer | |
1985–1986 | Les Misérables | Javert | Barbican Theatre (1985) Palace Theatre (1986)
|
1986 | The Archbishop's Ceiling | Adrian | |
1986 | Heresies | Pimm | |
1987 | Measure for Measure | The Duke Vincentio | |
1987 | Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | |
1987 | Julius Caesar | Brutus | |
1989 | The Fairy Queen | Oberon | Aix-en-Provence Festival |
1990 | The Seagull | Trigorin | |
1990 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | |
1991 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|
Jekyll | |
1992 | Madras House | Philip Madras | Lyric Hammersmith |
1992 | Una Pooka | Angelo | Tricycle Theatre
|
1993 | City of Angels | Stone | Prince of Wales Theatre |
1994 | Arcadia | Bernard Nightingale | Theatre Royal Haymarket
|
1995 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Jack Worthing | Old Vic Theatre
|
1995 | The Way of the World | Mirabell | National Theatre |
1997–1998 | ART | Serge(1997) Marc(1998) | Wyndham's Theatre |
1996 | Macbeth | Macbeth | |
1996 | The Learned Ladies | Trissotin | |
1999 | Summerfolk | Bassov | National Theatre |
1999 | Money | Henry Graves | National Theatre |
1999 | Troilus and Cressida | Ulysses | National Theatre |
2000 | The Cherry Orchard | Lopakhin | National Theatre |
2000 | Albert Speer | Adolf Hitler | National Theatre |
2001 | Privates on Parade | Terri Dennis | Donmar Warehouse |
2002 | What The Night Is For | Adam Penzius | Comedy Theatre |
2003 | The Woman in White | Performer | Sydmonton Festival |
2003 | Democracy | Willy Brandt | National Theatre |
2004, 2005 | Aladdin | Abbanazar | The Old Vic |
2006 | Blackbird | Ray | Albery Theatre
|
2006 | Pravda | Lambert Le Roux | Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
2007 | Boeing, Boeing | Bernard | Comedy Theatre |
2007 | The Giant | Leonardo da Vinci | Hampstead Theatre |
2008 | Afterlife | Max Reinhardt | National Theatre |
2009 | La Cage Aux Folles | Albin/Zaza | Playhouse Theatre |
2009 | God of Carnage (UK Tour) | Michel Vallon | |
2010 | Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 | Falstaff | Shakespeare's Globe |
2013 | The Tempest | Prospero | Shakespeare's Globe |
2014 | Seminar | Leonard | Hampstead Theatre |
2015 | The Moderate Soprano | John Christie | Hampstead Theatre |
2017 | Limehouse | Roy Jenkins | Donmar Warehouse |
2019 | Rutherford and Son | John Rutherford, Sr | Royal National Theatre[23] |
2020 | A Number | Salter | Bridge Theatre[24] |
2020 | Uncle Vanya | Serebryakov | Harold Pinter Theatre, London |
2023 | Frank and Percy | Frank | The Theatre Royal, Windsor[25] |
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Wilt | Dave | |
2002 | Stranded | Thomas Blunt | |
2005 | A Cock and Bull Story | Adrian | |
2006 | V for Vendetta | Lewis Prothero | |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Sir John Hamilton | ||
The Queen | Robin Janvrin | ||
2008 | Speed Racer | E.P. Arnold Royalton | |
Inkheart | Narrator | Voice | |
2010 | Tamara Drewe | Nicholas Hardiment | |
2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Henry Pelham | |
The Iron Lady | Gordon Reece | ||
2012 | The Woman in Black | Mr. Bentley | |
The Angels' Share | Thaddeus | ||
2013 | The Book Thief | Narrator/Death | Voice |
2015 | Mr. Holmes | Dr. Barrie | |
A Royal Night Out | Stan | ||
The Lady in the Van | Rufus | ||
2016 | The Truth Commissioner | Henry Stanfield | |
2017 | The Hippopotamus | Ted Wallace | |
2023 | Tetris | Robert Maxwell |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Ending Up | Dr. Mainwaring | TV film |
The Fairy Queen | Oberon | ||
1990 | The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing | Charles Tremayne | |
1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Duke Orsino/Narrator | Voice TV mini-series Episodes: "The Winter's Tale" & "Twelfth Night" |
1994 | Screen Two | Stephen Summerchild | TV series Episode: "A Landing on the Sun" |
1997 | Inspector Morse | Denis Cornford | TV series Episode: " Death Is Now My Neighbour "
|
The Bill | Ralph Marchbank | TV series Episode: "Hitting the Nerve" | |
1998 | Heartbeat | Graham Hayes | TV series Episode: "Echoes of the Past" |
Midsomer Murders | Alan Hollingsworth | TV series Episode: "Faithful unto Death" | |
1998–2000 | The Creatives | Charlie Baxter | TV series |
1999 | RKO 281 | Walt Disney | TV film |
2002 | Foyle's War | Alastair Graeme | TV series Episode: "Eagle Day" |
Waking the Dead | Benjamin Gold | TV series Episode: "Thin Air" | |
2003 | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Christopher | TV film |
2005 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Simon Featherstonehaugh | TV series Episode: "The Seed of Cunning" |
2005–present | Muffin The Mule
|
Narrator
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Audiobooks only |
2006 | Spooks | Paul Millington | TV series |
2007–2012 | The Thick of It | Peter Mannion | TV series |
2008 | The Curse of Steptoe | Tom Sloane | TV film |
2009 | The Old Guys | Ned | TV series Episode: "The Therapist" |
Margaret | John Wakeham | TV film | |
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire | General Arcadius | TV series | |
Ashes to Ashes | DSI Mackintosh | ||
2011 | Game of Thrones | Magister Illyrio Mopatis | TV series; Episodes: " Winter is Coming" & "The Wolf and the Lion "
|
2011 | The Jury (TV serial) | John Mallory, QC | TV serial; Series 2 |
2012 | Parade's End | General Campion | TV series |
2012–2023 | Endeavour | DI Fred Thursday | |
2013 | The Politician's Husband | Marcus Brock | |
2013-2016 | Sarah & Duck | Narrator | |
2014 | Bad Education | Maurice Hewston | |
2016 | The Missing | Adrian Stone | |
Ethel & Ernest | Middle Aged Doctor | Voice TV film | |
2020 | The Station: Trouble on the Tracks | Narrator | Documentary
|
2020 | Uncle Vanya | Serebryakov | A TV film initially released in cinemas of the play performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London to an empty theatre due to then Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to shut down theatres throughout Britain. |
2022 | Murder in Provence | Investigating Judge Antoine Verlaque | TV series |
2022 | The Sandman | Azazel | TV series |
Radio
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Valmont | BBC Radio 4 adaptation |
1992 | The King's General | Sir Richard Grenvile.[26] | BBC Radio 4 adaptation |
1997 | The Man in the Elephant Mask | Joseph Merrick.[27] | BBC Radio 4 two-parter |
2008 | The Ring and the Book | Guido Franceschini[28] | BBC Radio 4 adaptation |
2008 | Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management | Will's godfather, Peter[29] | BBC Radio 4 series |
2008–2014 | Cabin Pressure | First Officer Douglas Richardson.[30] | Four series on BBC Radio 4, and two specials |
2010 | Mark Lawson – What do you know? | DCI Parsons[31] | BBC Radio 4 drama |
2010–present | How Does That Make You Feel? | Richard Fallon MP[32] | Ten series, BBC Radio 4 comedy |
2011 | The Magnificent Andrea | Barry[33] | BBC Radio 4 comedy drama |
2012 | Blithe Spirit | Charles[34] | BBC Radio 4 comedy |
2014 | Edmund Gosse – Father and Son | Philip Henry Gosse [35] | BBC Radio 4 drama |
2014–2015 | War and Peace | General Mikhail Kutuzov[36] | BBC Radio 4 adaptation, episode aired on New Years Day 2015 |
2018–present | Conversations from a Long Marriage | Roger [37] | BBC Radio 4 comedy |
Audiobooks
Allam has narrated several audiobooks, including Solar by Ian McEwan and An Introduction to Buddhism by The Dalai Lama.
References
- ^ Lobb, Adrian (11 January 2016). "Roger Allam: "The arts have become elitist"". The Big Issue. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Drama Pupils Privileged to Learn from the Brilliant Roger Allam". Christs-hospital.org.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Gore-Langton, Robert (25 November 2002). "Acting? This is the real thing". The Times.
- ^ "Roger Allam on Mercutio from 'Romeo and Juliet'". Official Website of Roger Allam. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Productions : Afterlife". National Theatre. 16 December 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Smith, Alistair (23 April 2010). "Roger Allam to play Falstaff at Globe". The Stage.
- ^ "Roger Allam Wins Best Actor". Olivier Awards. 13 March 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
- ^ "ITV Renewed Endeavour For Season 7". rdv5.com. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ Mesure, Susie (6 April 2013). "Roger Allam: Lear in waiting". The Independent.
- ^ "Stage". Official Website of Roger Allam. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Wollaston, Sam (18 June 2014). "The Auction House - TV review". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Gill, James (26 October 2016). "The Missing series 2 episode 2: what is Roger Allam's character Brigadier Stone up to?". Radio Times.
- ^ Producer: Claire Jones (22 January 2020). "Why Didn't You Ask Me to Dance?". Conversations from a Long Marriage, Series 1. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ "Conversations from a Long Marriage, Series 4, She Drives Me Crazy". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ "Murder in Provence reveals teaser for Roger Allam's new crime series". Radio Times. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Kanter, Jake (25 May 2021). "BritBox Sets Crime Series 'Murder In Provence' As First U.S. & UK Co-Production". Deadline. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Hodges, Michael (2 June 2017). "Endeavour's Roger Allam on playing an alcoholic and his own boozy days". Radio Times. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ Cast list from DVD, ITV Studios, dated 2019
- ^ "Drama Pupils Privileged to Learn from the Brilliant Roger Allam". Christs-hospital.org.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Billen, Andrew (7 March 2017). "How Roger the leftie got to like Roy the rebel". The Times. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ Greenstreet, Rosanna (3 June 2017). "Q&A: Roger Allam: 'I just want to be remembered'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "Stage". Official Roger Allam Fan Site. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "Rutherford and Son | National Theatre". Nationaltheatre.org.uk. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ "A Number". Bridgetheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ "Frank and Percy". Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ "The King's General". BBC.
- ^ "The Man In The Elephant Mask". radiolistings.co.uk.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The Ring and the Book, Episode 1". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 – Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 – Cabin Pressure". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Mark Lawson - What do you know?". BBC.
- ^ "British Comedy Guide - How Does That Make You Feel?". comedy.co.uk.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Magnificent Andrea". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Noel Coward - Blithe Spirit". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Edmund Gosse - Father and Son, Episode 1". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 – War and Peace, Episode 10". BBC.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 – Conversations from a Long Marriage". BBC.