Tim Pigott-Smith Acting and Directing CV's.
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EDUCATION

1964-67 - Bristol University Drama Department (BA Hons).

1967-69 – Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

THEATRE WORK

1969-70 - Bristol Old Vic.

1970 - Edward Bond’s Black Mass at the Oval House.

1970-71 - Prospect Theatre Co., Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (First Player, Player King, Laertes, Cambridge Theatre).
1972-75 - Royal Shakespeare Company: Roman Plays, Posthumus in Cymbeline, Dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes (Aldwych and Broadway).

1975-77 - Repertory in Birmingham, Nottingham, Cambridge; Orange Tree, Royal Court.

1984 - Benefactors at the Vaudeville Theatre.
1985 - Bengal Lancer (one man play) Haymarket Leicester, transf. Lyric Hammersmith.
1986-88 - Royal National Theatre - Coming in to Land, Antony & Cleopatra (Octavius Caesar), Entertaining Strangers (Henry Moule), Winter’s Tale, (Leontes), Cymbeline (Iachimo)
 

The Tempest (Trinculo) - directed Samuel Becket’s Company Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Fringe First Award), and Donmar Warehouse.

1989-92 - Artistic Director Compass Theatre: for the company:-

1989 - directed Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Tour).

1990 - Brutus in Julius Caesar.
1991 - Salieri in Amadeus. Saki – an anthology.

1992 - directed Playing the Wife (Belfast Festival).

1993 – Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre at The Playhouse.

1994 - directed Hamlet (Regent’s Park), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lyric, Hammersmith).
1995 - Retreat (Orange Tree), The Letter (Lyric Hammersmith).
 

1996 - Leicester in Mary Stuart, Subtle in The Alchemist (RNT).

1997 - Heritage (Hampstead Theatre Club).
1998 - The Iceman Cometh (Almeida, transferred Old Vic) (nominated B.S.A. by the T.M.A.) and then - 1999 - New York (Nominated for Outer Critics’ Circle – Best Supporting Actor).
 

2000 - Five Kinds of Silence (Lyric Hammersmith).

2001-02 - Cassius in Julius Caesar (RSC Stratford and Barbican).
2002-03 - Scrooge in Christmas Carol at the Lyric, Hammersmith
 

2003 - General Ezra Mannon in Mourning Becomes Electra at the Royal National Theatre, directed by Howard Davies, with Helen Mirren.

2004 - Agamemnon in Hecuba directed by Jonathan Kent at the Donmar.

2006 - The Duke in Women Beware Women for the RSC

2006 - The Bishop in See How They Run at the Duchess Theatre

2007 - Henry Higgins in Pygmalion - Theatre Royal, Bath and National Tour, and Little Nell by Simon Gray, (Theatre Royal, Bath)

2008 - Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Old Vic

2009 - Ken lay in Enron at the Minerva (Chichester) and the Royal Court.

2009-2010 After the huge success of Enron at Chichester and
the Royal Court, the play is now playing at the Coward Theatre. Tim has received an Oliveir nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Ken Lay.

TELEVISION WORK

1970 - Dr.Who, The Regiment.

1975 - Glittering Prizes, North and South.

1976 - Wings, Dr. Who, No Mama No.

1977 - Eustace and Hilda.

1978 - The Lost Boys, Measure for Measure (Angelo), Wilderness Years.

1979 - Henry IV pt one (Hotspur), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, School Play.
1980 - Nelson (Hardy).
  1981 - Fame is the Spur.

1984 - Jewel in the Crown (Ronald Merrick - Best TV Actor, TV Times Best Actor Award, BPG Best Actor).
  1985 - The Challenge (Australian film about the Americas Cup).
1989-91 -The Chief: Series One and Two. (Chief Constable John Stafford).

1996 - Calcutta Chronicles (wrote and presented documentaries).

2001 - Innocents, Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible, The Vice (FrankVickers), Kavanagh QC.
2002 - Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Spooks. - The Vice (The Return of Frank Vickers).
 

2003 - the diarist, John Evelyn in Peter Ackroyd’s documentary - London.

2003 - Pliny in The Last Day Of Pompeii for BBC Science Dept.

2003 - Count von Dietrichstein in Eroica for the BBC shooting May/June.

2003 - Shaftesbury in Pepys, with Steve Coogan.

2004 - North and South for the BBC, playing Richard Hale.

2006 - Taken at the Flood - a Poirot film for Granada.

2006/7 - Harold Hutchinson in Holby Blue.

2008 - Midsomer Murders

2009 - Brigadier Timothy Wilson in Foyle's War

FILM WORK

1975 - Aces High.

1977 - Joseph Andrews.

1978 - Sweet William.

1979 - Clash of the Titans, The Day Christ Died.

1980 - Richard’s Things.

1981 - Escape to Victory.

1982 - Hunchback of Notre Dame.

1985 - State of Emergency.
1986 - Life Story (Francis Crick, BAFTA Best TV Film).
 

1991 - Lucky Village.

1992 - The True Adventures of Christopher Columbus.

1993 - Remains of the Day, The Bullion Boys.

1994 - The Shadowy Third.

2002 - Bloody Sunday: General Ford. (Lisbon Film Festival, Best Actor; Sundance Audience Award, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear, Lisbon FF Best Film)

- Laissez Passer (French-speaking role), Gangs of New York.

- Four Feathers (General Feversham), Johnny English.

2003 - Aristander in Alexander for Oliver Stone.

2005 - Entente Cordiale, V for Vendetta and Flyboys

2008 - Foreign Secretary in the New Bond Film Quantum of Solace.

2008 - Tim Burtons' Alice in Wonderland.
  DIRECTOR CV

As a student (at University and Drama School), I directed a lot of stuff, and kept my hand in when at Stratford (1972), with a late night production of Next Time I’ll Sing to You, by James Saunders.There was then a long gap, when I was too busy acting even to think of directing.

Then in the mid-eighties I twice directed Krapp’s Last Tape – once informally, and once for The Huston Festival in Texas. This latter production featured Julian Curry, who performed it off-Broadway, and also with the RSC touring unit in the late eighties, although it cannot properly be called an RSC production!

1988 - Samuel Beckett’s Company. Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Fringe First Award), and Donmar Warehouse.

1989-92 - Artistic Director of Compass Theatre.

1989 - directed Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Tour). With Denis Quilley & Jack Klaff. Peter Shaffer so liked this production that he gave us the touring rights for Amadeus for 1991.

1990 - directed Playing the Wife (Belfast Festival). With Barry Foster & Julia Ormond.

1994 - directed Hamlet (Regent’s Park). With Damian Lewis, Paul Freeman, Pamela Miles)

2005 - The Real Thing, National Tour