David Burt

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David Burt is a British actor, known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End performances.

Burt recently starred as the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in Show Boat at the Royal Albert Hall.

Other London credits include Anatoly in Chess, Captain Harkness in the world premiere musical adaptation of The Far Pavilions, Vic Christian in the Pet Shop Boys' musical Closer to Heaven, and Ernest Hemingway in the musical Beautiful and Damned. He can be heard on the 1985 original London cast recording of Les Miserables, as Enjolras, and the 1996 London cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.

As of August 2007, Burt is playing the role of nefarious prison officer Jim Fenner in Bad Girls: The Musical at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. In April 2008 he will play Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott in a British tour of G. M. Calhoun's "The Last South."

Son of Pip Hinton better known for her role in Crackerjack allong side Eamon Andrews and later Leslie Crowther.

Graduated as a student of R.A.D.A. and soon became a popular choice for LLoyd Webber when casting new musicals.

Born 1953

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