Stephan Chase

Stephan Chase is a British actor of Cornish and Scots descent. He was educated in Ireland and England. Before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company,^[1] he won a scholarship and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) later becoming an Associate of RADA.

He played Hamlet in 1975 in a British Council / Regent's Park Open Air Theatre touring production in India and Ceylon.^[2] He appeared as a leading man in feature films, TV plays and series and the West End theatre, such as Rules of the Game (1982), directed by Anthony Quayle, until he founded and ran the Rhubarb Agency 1988-2005. During this time, Stephan Chase also worked as an audio producer and director. He has since worked as a teacher and coach in London, but in 2011 he began working as an actor again.

Films

• Cry of the Banshee (1970 Dir Gordon Hessler)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971 Dir Roman Polanski)
• The Incredible Sarah (1976 Dir Richard Fleischer)
• The Golden Lady (1979 Dir José Ramón Larraz)
• Nijinsky (1980 Dir Herbert Ross)
• Black Arrow (1985 as "Black Arrow" Dir John Hough)
• Florence Nightingale (1985 Dir Daryl Duke proposed for Emmy Nomination for Dr.Sutherland)
• White Mischief (1987 Michael Radford)
• Trained (2012 Dir Anthony Jerjen. Winner LA Film Festival, Honolulu Film Festival and selected for London Raindance Film Festival 2013.
• The Hooligan Factory (2013 Dir Nick Nevern)
• The Child (2012 Short Dir Amy Neil)
• The Wager (2013 Short)
• Maleficent (2014 as "The General" Dir Robert Stromberg; with Angelina Jolie)

Television

• Wives and Daughters (1971 as Osborne Hamley)
• Arthur of the Britons (1972)
• The Edwardians (1972 as Baden-Powell)
• The Zoo Gang (1974)
• Secret Army (1979 Prod Gerard_Glaister)^[3]
• The Talisman (1980 as Richard the Lionheart Richard I of England, Prod Barry Letts)
• Take Three Women (1982)
• Dempsey and Makepeace (1986)
• A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
• The Governor (1995)

Theatre

• The musical, Katie Mulholland (1983 as Bernard Rosier, by Catherine Cookson DBE Dir Ken Hill (playwright))
• The Teddy Bears' Picnic (1987 by David Pinner, Dir Philip Partridge)
• Liberty Oregon (1994 as Novitski, at the Edinburgh Festival Dir Natasha Carlish)
• Suddenly Last Summer (1996 as Cucrovitz, by Tennessee Williams)

References

External links

• Stephan Chase Official Website
• Stephan Chase at the Internet Movie Database
• Trained, the 2013 Short