Richard Hope (actor)

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Richard Hope

Occupation Actor

Richard Hope is a British actor.

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[edit] Career

Richard Hope trained at the National Youth Theatre (NYT).

[edit] Theatre

Hope's work in theatre includes: John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002)[1], Pierre in War and Peace (1996)[2], Pravda (1985), Hamlet (1986)[3] The Government Inspector, Don Juan (1981), Much Ado About Nothing (1981)[4][5], Candida and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other[6] for the National Theatre, London.

The Park for the RSC, Hard Fruit (2000) at the Royal Court Theatre, London[7], Cymbeline (2001) at Shakespeare's Globe, London[8], Levin in Anna Karenina (1993) for Shared Experience[9], The Street of Crocodiles (1992) and The Visit for Complicite[10].

Betrayal at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, The Gentleman from Olmedo and Don Gil of the Green Britches at The Gate, London, 1001 Nights (1979) for Le Grand Magic Circus, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Third Policeman and The Warp (1979) for Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, Accidental Death of An Anarchist (1979) for Belt and Braces, Life After George (2002) at the Duchess Theatre, London[11] and Donkey's Years (national UK tour)[12][13].

[edit] Television

Television credits include: ITV's MIT: Murder Investigation Team as DS Barry Purvis[14], Heartbeat and Poirot, A Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders[15], The Bill, Wild West, Doctors, The Shell Seekers, Riot at the Rite, Silent Witness, The Government Inspector, Trial of the King Killers, Canterbury Tales, Foyle's War[16], Forsyte Saga, Tipping the Velvet, Reach For The Moon, The Demon Headmaster, Band Of Gold, The Riff Raff Element, Piece of Cake[17], Burning Ambition (for Complicite)[18], Brideshead Revisited[19] and Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

[edit] Film

Hope's film credits include: Chromophobia, Sergeant Pepper, The Honeytrap, McLibel[20], My Brother Tom, The Last Post, Feast of July, Antonia and Jane[21], Bellman and True[22], See You At Wembley Frankie Walsh, Laughterhouse[23], Scandalous, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Breaking Glass[24] and Bloody Kids.

[edit] Radio

Hope's work in radio includes: Man In The Water[25], Murder on the Leviathan[26], People Like Us[27], Diary of a Provincial Lady, What Hetty Did[28], The Woman In Black[29], To the Wedding (for Complicite)[30] and The Constant Prince.

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Theatre : Productions : A Prayer for Owen Meany
  2. ^ National Theatre : Company Members : Richard Hope
  3. ^ Hamlet, Berry/Dyer, National Theatre Touring, January 1986
  4. ^ Much Ado About Nothing, Gill/Chitty, National Theatre, August 1981
  5. ^ Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, Olivier Theatre, 1981
  6. ^ National Theatre : Productions : The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other
  7. ^ The Royal Court Theatre / Hard Fruit
  8. ^ Albemarle - Archive
  9. ^ ANNA KARENINA - Review - Theater - New York Times
  10. ^ Productions - Complicite
  11. ^ Life After George, a CurtainUp London review
  12. ^ Sonia Friedman Productions - What's On
  13. ^ The Stage / Listings / Productions
  14. ^ BFI | Film & TV Database | MIT[2003/05/03 (2003)]
  15. ^ Midsomer Murders - Actors (a comprehensive list of all the actors that have appeared in the series to date)
  16. ^ ABC Television
  17. ^ Nathaniel Parker Official Homepage - Piece of Cake
  18. ^ Productions - Complicite
  19. ^ Brideshead Revisited
  20. ^ Shooting People: Shooter Films -
  21. ^ Antonia & Jane - Movie - Review - New York Times
  22. ^ Bellman and True (1987)
  23. ^ Laughterhouse - Cast - New York Times
  24. ^ Mark Wingett - Breaking Glass Cast List
  25. ^ BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Afternoon Reading, Portraits of East Anglia, Man in the Water
  26. ^ Murder On The Leviathan
  27. ^ People Like Us
  28. ^ What Hetty Did
  29. ^ The Woman in Black
  30. ^ Productions - Complicite

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