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British actor
Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor.
[1]
Career
His work in theatre includes performances at the
Citizens Theatre , the
Royal Court Theatre and the
Royal National Theatre .
[2] In 1975, he played the title role in the first British stage production of
Seneca 's
Thyestes .
[3] Other theatre roles include
Ferdinand in
The Tempest and
Tamburlaine .
[4]
[5]
[6]
He appeared in
Richard Attenborough 's
Gandhi in 1982.
[7] In
Steven Spielberg 's
Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (
Christian Bale ).
[8]
[9]
Other roles include Philip Castallack in
Penmarric (1979),
[10]
[11] Muller in
Eye of the Needle (1981), Lionel Stephens in
The Shooting Party (1985),
[12] Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in a 1986 tv-production of
Oscar Wilde 's
The Importance of Being Earnest ,
[13] Alan Desland in
The Girl in a Swing (1988),
[14]
[15] Lord Alexander Montford in
The House of Eliott
[16] and
Neville Chamberlain in
Downton Abbey .
[17]
Personal life
Frazer is married with three children.
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References
^ O'Donnell, Monica M. (1986).
Contemporary theatre, film and television: a biographical guide featuring performers, directors, writers, producers, designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics in the United States and Great Britain : a continuation of Who's who in the theatre. Includes cumulative index containing references to Who's who in the theatre, 17th edition . Gale Research Co. p. 101.
ISBN
978-0-8103-2065-9 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 . FRAZER, Rupert 1947- PERSONAL: Born March 12, 1947, in England
^ Dunn, Kate (1998). Exit through the fireplace: the great days of the rep . J. Murray. p. 258.
ISBN
9780719554759 .
^ Davis, Peter J (2003).
Seneca : Thyestes .
Duckworth Books . p. 31.
ISBN
0715632221 .
^ Maley, Willy; Murphy, Andrew (2004).
Shakespeare and Scotland . Manchester University Press. p. 181.
ISBN
978-0-7190-6637-5 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2014).
Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 172.
ISBN
978-1-4422-3548-9 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^
"Tempest, The · British Universities Film & Video Council" . bufvc.ac.uk .
BUFVC . Retrieved 10 March 2020 .
^ Attenborough, Richard (1982).
In search of Gandhi . Bodley Head. p. 234.
ISBN
9780370309439 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Morris, Nigel (2017).
A Companion to Steven Spielberg . John Wiley & Sons. p. 231.
ISBN
978-1-118-72691-4 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Friedman, Lester D. (2010).
Citizen Spielberg . University of Illinois Press. pp. 199–200.
ISBN
978-0-252-09129-2 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Howes, Keith (1993).
Broadcasting it : an encyclopaedia of homosexuality in film, radio and TV in the UK 1923-1993 . London ; New York, NY : Cassell. pp. 608–609.
ISBN
9780304327003 . Retrieved 7 March 2020 .
^ Cortese, Anthony Joseph Paul (2006).
Opposing Hate Speech . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 194.
ISBN
978-0-275-98427-4 .
^
Ebert, Roger (23 September 1985).
"The Shooting Party movie review (1985) | Roger Ebert" .
RogerEbert.com . Retrieved 18 November 2020 .
^
"The Listener" . British Broadcasting Corporation. May 1988. Retrieved 4 March 2020 . Rupert Frazer had the tone right, and could have passed for a refugee from another and more appropriate generation of acting
^ Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley R. (1990).
The Motion Picture Guide 1990 Annual: The Films of 1989 . Cinebooks. p. 93.
ISBN
978-0-933997-29-5 .
^
Cinefantastique . F.S. Clarke. 1991.
^
"The House of Eliott - S2 - Episode 11" .
Radio Times . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ O'Donovan, Gerard (19 October 2015).
"Will Lord Grantham survive? Six Downton Abbey talking points" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^
"About" . Rupert Frazer . Archived from
the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2022 .
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