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person_profile-Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Michael Bryant

Date of Birth:

Apr 05, 1928

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Apr 25, 2002

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Michael Bryant

Found 29 Movies in total

... 2020

The Deep

as John Ingram ( Actor )

... 2007

The Miracle Maker

God/ The Doctor ( Actor )

... 2000

King Lear

Fool ( Actor )

... 1998

Hamlet

Priest ( Actor )

... 1996

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Self (segment "The deep") (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

Advocate ( Actor )

... 1988

Sakharov

Syshchikov ( Actor )

... 1984

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Doctor Caius ( Actor )

... 1982

Gandhi

Principal Secretary ( Actor )

... 1982

... 1982

My Homeland

Reader ( Actor )

... 1976

The Daedalus Equations

Sam McInstrey ( Actor )

... 1976

Caravan to Vaccarès

Zuger ( Actor )

... 1974

Mr. Axelford's Angel

Mr Axelford ( Actor )

... 1974

The Stone Tape

Peter Brock ( Actor )

... 1972

The Duchess of Malfi

Bosola ( Actor )

... 1972

The Ruling Class

Dr. Herder ( Actor )

... 1972

Nicholas and Alexandra

Lenin ( Actor )

... 1971

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

New Friend ( Actor )

... 1970

The Three Sisters

Vershinin ( Actor )

... 1970

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Max Staefel ( Actor )

... 1969

Torture Garden

Colin Williams (segment 1 "Enoch") ( Actor )

... 1967

The Deadly Affair

Gaveston (in Edward II) ( Actor )

... 1967

The Mind Benders

Dr. Danny Tate ( Actor )

... 1963

Life for Ruth

John's Counsel ( Actor )

... 1962

A Night to Remember

Sixth Officer James Moody ( Actor )

... 1958

Uranium Boom

Peterson ( Actor )

... 1956

Passage Home

Stebbings ( Actor )

... 1955