British actor
Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor.[ 1]
Career
His work in theatre includes performances at the Citizens Theatre , the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre .[ 2] In 1975, he played the title role in the first British stage production of Seneca 's Thyestes .[ 3] Other theatre roles include Ferdinand in The Tempest and Tamburlaine .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
He appeared in Richard Attenborough 's Gandhi in 1982.[ 7] In Steven Spielberg 's Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (Christian Bale ).[ 8] [ 9]
Other roles include Philip Castallack in Penmarric (1979),[ 10] [ 11] Muller in Eye of the Needle (1981), Lionel Stephens in The Shooting Party (1985),[ 12] Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in a 1986 tv-production of Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest ,[ 13] Alan Desland in The Girl in a Swing (1988),[ 14] [ 15] Lord Alexander Montford in The House of Eliott [ 16] and Neville Chamberlain in Downton Abbey .[ 17]
Personal life
Frazer is married with three children.[ 18]
References
^ O'Donnell, Monica M. (1986). Contemporary theatre, film and television: a biographical guide featuring performers, directors, writers, producers, designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics in the United States and Great Britain : a continuation of Who's who in the theatre. Includes cumulative index containing references to Who's who in the theatre, 17th edition . Gale Research Co. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8103-2065-9 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 . FRAZER, Rupert 1947- PERSONAL: Born March 12, 1947, in England
^ Dunn, Kate (1998). Exit through the fireplace: the great days of the rep . J. Murray. p. 258. ISBN 9780719554759 .
^ Davis, Peter J (2003). Seneca : Thyestes . Duckworth Books . p. 31. ISBN 0715632221 .
^ Maley, Willy; Murphy, Andrew (2004). Shakespeare and Scotland . Manchester University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-7190-6637-5 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2014). Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-4422-3548-9 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ "Tempest, The · British Universities Film & Video Council" . bufvc.ac.uk . BUFVC . Retrieved 10 March 2020 .
^ Attenborough, Richard (1982). In search of Gandhi . Bodley Head. p. 234. ISBN 9780370309439 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Morris, Nigel (2017). A Companion to Steven Spielberg . John Wiley & Sons. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-118-72691-4 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Friedman, Lester D. (2010). Citizen Spielberg . University of Illinois Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-252-09129-2 . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ Howes, Keith (1993). Broadcasting it : an encyclopaedia of homosexuality in film, radio and TV in the UK 1923-1993 . London; New York, NY : Cassell. pp. 608–609. ISBN 9780304327003 . Retrieved 7 March 2020 .
^ Cortese, Anthony Joseph Paul (2006). Opposing Hate Speech . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-275-98427-4 .
^ Ebert, Roger (23 September 1985). "The Shooting Party movie review (1985) | Roger Ebert" . RogerEbert.com . Retrieved 18 November 2020 .
^ "The Listener" . British Broadcasting Corporation. May 1988. Retrieved 4 March 2020 . Rupert Frazer had the tone right, and could have passed for a refugee from another and more appropriate generation of acting
^ Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley R. (1990). The Motion Picture Guide 1990 Annual: The Films of 1989 . Cinebooks. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-933997-29-5 .
^ Cinefantastique . F.S. Clarke. 1991.
^ "The House of Eliott - S2 - Episode 11" . Radio Times . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ O'Donovan, Gerard (19 October 2015). "Will Lord Grantham survive? Six Downton Abbey talking points" . The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 4 March 2020 .
^ "About" . Rupert Frazer . Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2022 .
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