Michael Bryant

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Dennis Bryant (5 April 1928 – 25 April 2002) was a British stage and television actor. Bryant attended Battersea Grammar School and after service in the Merchant Navy and Army, he attended drama school and appeared in many productions on the London stage. He made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2's 1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy. His guest star appearance as Wing Commander Marsh, who feigns insanity in the 'Tweedledum' episode of the BBC drama series, Colditz (1972), is still widely remembered. Bryant was chosen by Orson Welles to play the lead role in The Deep, Welles's adaptation of the Charles Williams novel Dead Calm. The production frequently ran out of money, and following the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, Welles stopped production and announced the movie - which had been completed except for one special effects shot of a ship exploding - would not be released. (The novel was finally adapted to film in 1989.) In 1969 Bryant took his love of the stage on a strange trip into the realm of cult films, playing a clever male prostitute who outwits a delusional family of killers in the dark comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, an adaptation of a play by Maisie Mosco. Due to poor marketing and a lack of faith in the film by the distributor, the film quickly sank into obscurity even before it could develop a cult following. One of Bryant's most memorable performances was in the classic BBC television play The Stone Tape (1972), in which he plays the leader of a team of scientists who investigate ghost sightings in a brooding gothic mansion. Bryant also had a supporting role as a sadistic psychiatrist in the cult classic black comedy The Ruling Class, with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. He also appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) as a British diplomat. Having played Lenin in the film Nicholas and Alexandria, Bryant would later reprise the role in Robert Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977). He had previously co-starred in Bolt's unsuccessful Gentle Jack. The 1977 production of a Bolt play though was significant for featuring the first role he performed at the National Theatre where he was a constant presence for a quarter of a century. Bryant, described by Michael Billington as "rock-solid company man", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965), in which he played Teddy, the returning academic. In 1980, Michael Bryant won the London Drama Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and his other theatrical performances were equally well thought of. Bryant won Laurence Olivier Awards in 1988 and 1990 and was nominated twice more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bryant (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1928-04-05

Died: 2002-04-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Passage Home	Stebbings	56
2	1956	Uranium Boom	Peterson	60
3	1958	A Night to Remember	Sixth Officer James Moody	76
4	1962	Life for Ruth	John's Counsel	64
5	1963	The Mind Benders	Dr. Danny Tate	64
6	1967	The Deadly Affair	Gaveston (in Edward II)	62
7	1967	Easier in the Dark	The Man	0
8	1967	Torture Garden	Colin Williams (segment 1 "Enoch")	61
9	1968	Mille Miglia	Stirling Moss	0
10	1968	The Explorer	Erik Petterson	0
11	1969	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Max Staefel	67
12	1970	The Three Sisters	Vershinin	60
13	1970	Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	New Friend	61
14	1971	The Switch	Henry Martin	0
15	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Lenin	69
16	1972	The Greeks and Their Gifts	Stuart Lindsay	0
17	1972	The Ruling Class	Dr. Herder	64
18	1972	The Duchess of Malfi	Bosola	0
19	1972	The Stone Tape	Peter Brock	59
20	1973	The Professional	Duckworth	0
21	1974	If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them		10
22	1974	Mr. Axelford's Angel	Mr Axelford	85
23	1974	Is It Something I Said?	Arthur	0
24	1974	Caravan to Vaccarès	Zuger	54
25	1974	The Treasure of Abbot Thomas	The Rev. Justin Somerton	63
26	1976	The Daedalus Equations	Sam McInstrey	0
27	1976	My Homeland	Reader	0
28	1977	Short Back and Sides	John Hardy	0
29	1982	A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton	Mike	0
30	1982	Gandhi	Principal Secretary	76
31	1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Doctor Caius	80
32	1984	Sakharov	Syshchikov	70
33	1988	Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'	Advocate	0
34	1991	Heading Home	Derek Green	55
35	1993	Anna Lee: Headcase	Commander Martin Brierly	52
36	1995	Orson Welles: The One-Man Band	Self (segment "The deep") (archive footage)	64
37	1996	Hamlet	Priest	73
38	1998	King Lear	Fool	80
39	2000	The Miracle Maker	God/ The Doctor (voice)	59
40	2007	The Deep	John Ingram	0
41	2020	The Curse Of Denton Rose	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok		45
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Britannus	86
3	1955	The Millionaire	McGinnis	50
4	1955	Buffalo Bill Jr.		50
5	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
6	1955	ITV Play of the Week	Walter Luke	40
7	1956	Telephone Time		63
8	1957	Harbor Command		40
9	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Vershinin	50
10	1966	Talking to a Stranger		85
11	1967	The Big M	Johnny Treherne	60
12	1970	The Roads to Freedom	Mathieu Delarue	38
13	1971	A Ghost Story for Christmas	The Rev. Justin Somerton	75
14	1972	Colditz	W / Cdr George Marsh	73
15	1974	Playhouse	Sam McInstrey	70
16	1974	Fall of Eagles	Ratchkowsky	68
17	1975	Late Call	Howard Calvert	0
18	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Doctor Caius	60
19	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Narrator (voice)	70
20	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Advocate	0
21	1991	Performance	Fool	60

Michael Bryant

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