John Castle

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John Castle (born January 14, 1940 in Croydon , Surrey , England ) is a British actor .

Life

Castle studied acting at RADA and graduated in 1964. As a classically trained theater actor, he has appeared in numerous Shakespeare productions, including Claudius in Hamlet , Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and James Tyrell in The War of the Roses . He has worked on productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British National Theater. In 1970 he made the leap to Broadway . The musical Georgy, based on a book by Tom Mankiewicz , only got four performances.

Castle began his film and television career in 1965 with guest roles on television series such as Flipper . He made his feature film debut the following year in Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film Blow Up , where he starred as Bill alongside Vanessa Redgrave , Sarah Miles and David Hemmings . In 1967 he had a guest role as number 12 in Patrick McGoohan's cult series number 6 . He played one of his most important film roles in Anthony Harvey's three Academy Award-winning literary adaptation, The Lion in Winter . At the side of Peter O'Toole , Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins he portrayed the Duke of Brittany Gottfried II . In 1972 he played the Roman Emperor Augustus in Charlton Heston 's Shakespeare adaptation Antonius and Cleopatra and the Duke Sanson Carrasco in Arthur Hiller's musical adaptation The Man from La Mancha . From the mid-1970s, his film appearances became rarer and Castle was instead seen more often on television, including in the British series Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone and Die Profis, which are popular in German-speaking countries . In addition to numerous guest roles, he played in a few mini-series , including as Detective Inspector Craddock in the three-part television adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced and as Havisham in a Disney adaptation of The Little Lord . In later years he appeared in series such as Casualty , Spooks - In the Visor of MI5 and Inspector Barnaby .

Filmography (selection)

Series

Movies

Broadway

  • 1970: Georgy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. RADA (English)
  2. Dalzell & Beresford Ltd (English)
  3. IMDB (English)