When he was a student, just starting out at Oxford, he was cast in the role of Mephistopheles by
Nevill Coghill the director of the Oxford University Dramatic Society's stage production of
Christopher Marlowe's play, "Doctor Faustus" at the Oxford Playhouse on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, opposite
Richard Burton CBE and Dame
Elizabeth Taylor. Other members of the cast included
Richard Durden-Smith,
Maria Aitken ("Good Angel"),
David Wood,
Ian Marter and
Richard Heffer in the cast. Costumes were by Berman's of London, except for 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)'s whose costume was designed by
Irene Sharaff.
