Stanley Lebor

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Stanley Harvey Lebor (born September 24, 1934 in East Ham , London , † November 22, 2014 in Faversham , Kent , England) was a British actor .

Life

Lebor worked as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company, among others . In the spy thriller Call for a Dead by Sidney Lumet , in which a key scene from the film is set during a theatrical performance of Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II , Lebor stars in the role of Lancaster. In 1968 he was at Phoenix Theater in Leicester with Clive Francis and Patricia Kneale in the play booty ( loot ) by Joe Orton to see. In 1959 he played at the Aldwych Theater on the side of Paul Scofield and Eric Porter in Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Auditor . In 1965 he played the role of Lord Ma (e) rcadé in William Shakespeare's comedy Lost Love Labor with the Royal Shakespeare Company . In 1965 he was also seen with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Prince of Morocco in the tragicomedy The Merchant of Venice . In the 1980s he appeared in the musical Sweeney Todd at the Old Vic Theater in Bristol .

Lebor also worked for film and television . In 1972, he had a smaller role as the henchman Blitzen in the comedy Kommandosache Nackter Po . Lebor continued to play mainly supporting roles in the following years, including in the action film Codeword Hennessy , as a regimental officer in the war film The Bridge of Arnhem or as a police doctor in the mystery thriller The Terror of Medusa by Jack Gold . In 1978 Lebor, himself of a Jewish faith and at times in a relationship with the daughter of the British politician Ernest Millington , played the Jewish insurgent Zalman in the miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family in the liberation struggle for the Warsaw ghetto . In 1980 he played a doctor on the planet Mongo in the science fiction film Flash Gordon . He had a small role as a police officer in the 1982 film epic Gandhi , directed by Richard Attenborough . In Superman IV - The World on the Edge , he was seen as General Romoff in 1987. In 2000, he played the role of the Constantinople- born designer Faisal, who designs the wedding dress for Morgiana, in the mini-series Arabian Nights - Adventures from 1001 Nights .

Lebor also acted in numerous television series . In 1972 he played in the episode Ceremony of the Dead from the British television series No Pardon for Guardian Angels, the sick President Medina, who may be kidnapped by the kidnapper. He was often used in television series as a villain and villain, so in 1972 as the South American revolutionary Miguel in an episode of the crime series Jason King or as an alien Gaius in the science fiction series The Tomorrow People . He was best known on television for his role as Howard in the British sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.equity.org.uk/documents/equity-magazine-spring-2015/equity-spring-2015.pdf
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures THE DEADLY AFFAIR (GREAT BRITAIN)
  3. World Filmography: 1967 Deadly Affair, The
  4. Clive Francis.Actor.Artist ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of Clive Francis @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / actorclivefrancis.com
  5. ^ Loot by Joe Orton A tribute to Clive Francis
  6. Love's Labor's Lost RSC Staging History 1960-2007
  7. ^ The Merchant of Venice RSC Staging History 1960-2007
  8. SWEENEY TODD program at Bravo Encore
  9. What That Really Me? Autobiography of Enest Millington
  10. The Protectors on epguides.com
  11. Jason King on UK DVD
  12. THE TOMORROW PEOPLE - the 70’s