Robert Stephens

Acting · Born 1931-07-14 in Bristol, England, UK

Biography

Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes. He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted. Description above partly from the Wikipedia article Robert Stephens, licensed under CC-BY-SA,…

Filmography

• Romeo and Juliet as the Prince
• Searching for Bobby Fischer as Poe's Teacher
• Chaplin as Ted the Drunk
• The Duellists as Brigadier-General Treillard
• Henry V as Auncient Pistol
• Empire of the Sun as Mr. Lockwood
• Cleopatra as Germanicus
• The Search for Alexander the Great as Darius of Persia
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Teddy Lloyd
• Travels with My Aunt as Ercole Visconti

TV

• Inspector Morse as Sir Wilfred Mulryne
• The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Hades
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Max Carrados
• Channing as Paddy Riordan
• Hell's Bells as Bishop Godfrey Hethercote
• Vienna 1900
• BBC Play of the Month as Mark Antony
• The Box of Delights as Abner Brown
• Dandelion Dead as Henry Vaughan
• QB VII as Robert Highsmith