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

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

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 known as Bond 22 in lieu of a title.
  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