Mark Wing-Davey

Mark Wing-Davey (2012)

Mark Wing-Davey (born November 30, 1948 in London , England ) is a British actor and theater director .

Life

Wing-Davey studied at Cambridge University , where he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club from 1967 to 1970 . Other prominent members of this club included John Cleese , Graham Chapman and Eric Idle of Monty Python, as well as Simon Jones and Douglas Adams .

With the latter two, he worked on his most famous role, the two-headed president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox , both the BBC - radio play and in the subsequent TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . In 1983 he played the Earl of Warwick in the television play on William Shakespeare's three-part drama Henry VI and Sir James Tyrrel in Richard III . He also played guest roles in various British television series such as Dempsey & Makepeace and Absolutely Fabulous . From 2003 he repeated his role as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the sequels of the radio play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Life, the Universe and All the Rest, as well as Take care and thank you for the fish . He also spoke the role of Judge Ghis in the computer game Final Fantasy XII .

He then worked mainly in the theater as an actor and director, including the off-Broadway production Unconditional , which is performed by Philip Seymour Hoffman's theater group LAByrinth Theater Company .

Filmography (selection)

• 1976: Out of the Trees
• 1976: Ready When You Are Mr. McGill
• 1976: The Glittering Prizes
• 1977: Play for Today
• 1980: A Question of Guilt
• 1980: Breaking Glass
• 1981: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy )
• 1983: Henry VI
• 1983: Richard III
• 1984: A Winter Harvest
• 1985: Dempsey & Makepeace
• 1989: Thanks from the Fatherland ( Tumbledown )
• 1991: One Against the Wind ( One Against the Wind )

Web links

• Mark Wing-Davey in the Internet Movie Database (English)