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Name: John T. Neville  
   
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Date of Birth: 29th December 1886
   
Place of Birth: Harrisonville, Missouri, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

John Neville is an English Theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972 but enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Neville was born on May 2, 1925 in London, educated at Chiswick County School for Boys, and after war service in the Royal Navy trained as an actor at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, before starting his professional career as a member of Trent Players.

During the 1950s he was a leading member of London's Old Vic Company, playing many classical leading roles including Romeo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and an acclaimed Richard in Richard II, with Virginia McKenna as Queen Anne. He also alternated with Richard Burton the parts of the Moor and Iago in Othello. He was a frequent visiting player at the Bristol Old Vic. In the 1960s he was artistic director at the Nottingham Playhouse, another of Britain's leading provincial repertory theatres, before leaving for Canada in 1972, taking up the post of artistic director at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton Alberta. He has since taken similar positions with other Canadian theatre companies as well as continuing his acting career. Noted for his classical good looks and distinctive voice, the young John Neville was frequently described as the young John Gielgud's natural successor—though his acting style was in fact quite different and certainly more natural than that of the early-to-mid period Gielgud—and was consequently often cast in romantic leads, though he always regarded himself primarily as a character actor. He was, however, not averse to the occasional foray into other areas and for a while took over the leading role of Nestor Le Fripé from Keith Michel in the original West End production of the musical Irma La Douce, playing opposite Elizabeth Seal as Irma.

Although he has made the occasional film and numerous television appearances, the main focus of Neville's career has always been the theatre.

John Neville was cast as Baron Munchausen by Gilliam when in his mid-sixties, as Gilliam thought he brought the necessary ambience to the role and could be aged or made younger with clever make-up. In the film, Neville plays the character at three different stages of his life; in his thirties, his fifties, and his seventies.

External link

  • John Neville at the Internet Movie Database

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