Patrick Ryecart: Difference between revisions

| birth_name = Patrick Geoffrey Ryecart

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|05|9|df=y}}

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = {{marriage|[[Marsha Fitzalan]]|1977|1995|end=div}}

 

==Early life and career==

 

His first West End appearance was in [[Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Candida (play)|Candida]]'' at the [[Albery Theatre]], playing the young poet Marchbanks opposite [[Deborah Kerr]], directed by [[Michael Blakemore]]. Among a string of fine reviews, Bernard Levin in the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' described his performance as "supernova" and that he had not seen "such a talent in embryo since the young [[Richard Burton]]".{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Ryecart has continued working in theatre, television and film (his last film role [[Lord Wigram]] in ''[[The King's Speech]]'') with lead roles in the classics of Shaw, Sheridan, and Shakespeare to light comedies, TV situation comedy, thrillers and musicals. Among his notable credits in London are Jack Absolute in ''[[The Rivals]]'', with [[Michael Hordern]] as his father and [[Geraldine McEwan]] as Mrs Malaprop, and Lord Goring in [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]]'s ''[[An Ideal Husband]]''. He has acted on many British television shows since the mid-1970s including ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'', ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare|Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'', ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]](Se7ep5)'', ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'', ''[[Coming Home (TV serial)|Coming Home]]'' and ''[[Holby City]]''. In 1986 he appeared in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' in the ''[[Mindwarp]]'' segment. He was one of the lead characters in the BBC TV comedy series ''[[The High Life (British TV series)|The High Life]]'' playing Captain Hilary Duff. He played Hugo Latimer in the BBC series ''[[Trainer (TV series)|Trainer]]''. He played Mr. Crane-Bolder in ''Catherine Cookson’s Rag Nymph'' a TV Mini-Series (1997). He also appeared in the 1996 ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' episode, "[[Dumb Witness]]" as Charles and for the [[BBC]] in ''My Son My Son''. He appeared in ''Midsomer Murders'' "The Night of the Stag" as Anthony Devereux (2011). In 2013 he played Sir Anthony Morgan in ''Agatha Christie’s Poirot'' "The Labours of Hercules". Also Dalziel & Pascoe episode and many mini series for the U.S. He played Sir Hugh Bodrugan in the 2015 BBC series of ''[[Poldark (2015 TV series)|Poldark]]''. In 2016, he played the role of the Duke of Norfolk in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''.

[[Category:English male film actors]]

[[Category:Alumni of the College of the Venerable Bede, Durham]]