Blake Ritson

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Blake Ritson
Years active 1996-present

Blake Ritson is an English actor and director.

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[edit] Career

He is best known for portraying Edmund Bertram in the 2007 BBC adaptation of Mansfield Park[1], Giles Vicary in the BBC series Red Cap and for playing sidekick Robert Presley in A Touch of Frost.[2] He also played the part of Justin in The League of Gentlemen.

Ritson directed the film Out of Time with his older brother, Dylan Ritson.[3] Starring Mark Heap and Raquel Cassidy, the film won the Global Audience Award at the first CON-CAN Movie Festival[4] and was runner up at Minimalen and the Berlin Film Festival. It also screened at the London, San Paulo and Dresden film festivals.

The Ritson brothers have just completed their second short film, More More More, starring The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, and have just shot their third, Good Boy, starring Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), Reece Shearsmith, Nicholas Burns, Joanna Page and Ritson's fiancee Hattie Morahan.

He also played banjolele on Doug Hodge's album Cowley Road.[5]

[edit] Selected credits

[edit] TV & Film

  • Last Battle Dreamer - Alfred (Future Films, dir. Menno Meyjes)
  • God on Trial - Idek (Hat Trick, dir. Andy De Emmony)
  • Rocknrolla - James Sloane (Warner Bros, dir. Guy Ritchie)
  • The Commander - John Littlewood (La Plante Productions, Ashley Pearce)
  • Mansfield Park - Edmund Bertram (Company Pictures, Iain B Macdonald)
  • A Touch of Frost - Robert Presley – Frost's sidekick (ITV, dir. Roy Battersby)
  • Romantics - Percy Bysshe Shelley (BBC, dir. Sam Hobkinson)
  • AKA - Alexander Griffoyn (Bard Films, dir. Duncan Roy)
  • The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Graham Marshall (BBC, dir. Bob Bierman)
  • The Cicerones - Cicerone (FilmFour, dir. Jeremy Dyson)
  • The Box - Pedro (Eclipse Productions, dir. Toru Tokikawa)
  • Me Without You - Tim (Dakota Films, dir. Sandra Goldbacher)
  • Titus - Mutius, (Urania Productions, dir. Julie Taymor)
  • If… - Ben Swale (BBC, dir. Richard Alwyn)
  • The Wicked Waltz - Strauss the Younger (BBC, dir. Rupert Edwards)
  • Ministry Of Time - Tom (BBC, dir. Mark Gatiss)
  • Red Cap, series 2 - Giles Vicary (BBC, dir. Justin Chadwick)
  • Red Cap, series 1 - Giles Vicary (BBC, dir. Justin Chadwick, Martin Hutchings)
  • Adventure Inc - Byron (Bright Films, dir. Mark Roper)
  • Red Cap - pilot film, Giles Vicary (BBC, dir, David Richards)
  • Urban Gothic - David (dir. Otto Bathurst)
  • The League Of Gentlemen - Justin (BBC, dir. Steve Bendelack)
  • London's Burning - Dermot Griffin (ITV, dir. Tim Leandro)
  • Shooting the Past - Nick (BBC, dir. Stephen Poliakoff)
  • Knight School - Sir Roger (Granada, dir. Andrew Morgan), 2 series
  • Breaking The Code - Christopher Morcom (BBC, dir. Herbert Wise)
  • No Bananas - Pete (BBC, dir. Peter Norris/Alan Dossor)
  • Hilary and Jackie - Jack Spenser (Oxford Films, dir. Anand Tucker)
  • Different For Girls - Paul Prentice (X Pictures, dir. Richard Spence)
  • The John Lennon Story - Paul McCartney (Mico Europe, dir. Peter Lascelles)

[edit] Stage & Radio

  • Violet - Mio (Royal Court, dir. Indu Rubasingham)
  • Love is Blind - Manolito Trevelez (Royal Court, dir. Nathalie Abrahami)
  • Arcadia - Septimus (Bristol Old Vic 2004, dir. Rachel Kavanaugh)
  • HappyTime Park - Xavier (Riverside Studios 2002, devised and dir. Dylan Ritson)
  • In Praise of Love - Joey (Theatre Royal Bath 2001, dir. Deborah Bruce)
  • Arcadia - Augustus (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1994 - National Theatre/Michael Codron - dir. Trevor Nunn)
  • Macbeth - Fleance (National Theatre, Olivier 1993, dir. Richard Eyre)
  • White Chameleon - Paul Etheridge (National Theatre, Cottesloe 1991, dir. Richard Eyre)
  • The Luke Files - Bartholomew (RT Productions, dir. Paul McKusker)
  • Romeo and Juliet - Benvolio (Immersive, dir. Mark Rosenblatt)

[edit] Personal life

Ritson attended St Paul's Boys and Cambridge University.[6]

Ritson is the brother of Dylan Ritson, with whom he directs and writes.

His fiancee is the stage and screen actress Hattie Morahan.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Company Pictures: Mansfield Park
  2. ^ http://preview.itv.com/Drama/copsandcrime/atouchoffrost/Castinterviews/BlakeRitson.html
  3. ^ http://www.con-can.com/PreviewRoom_1st/en/director/index.html?director_id=10033
  4. ^ http://www.con-can.com/festival/first/final_review/
  5. ^ doughodge.com Cowley Road Songs Credits
  6. ^ http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/ritsonb/f-ftd.html

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