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Robert Stephens

Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes.

English
Filmography

Silently Steal Away

2017

How to Be Sherlock Holmes The Many Faces of a Master Detective

2014
as Self - Actor - Speaking in 1988

England, My England

1995
as John Dryden

99-1

1994
as Commander Oakwood

The Secret Rapture

1993
as Max Lopert

Century

1993
as Mr. Reisner

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993
as Poe's Teacher

Adam Bede

1992
as Reverend Irwine

The Pope Must Die

1991
as The Camarlengo

Afraid of the Dark

1991
as Dan Burns

30 Door Key

1991
as Prof. Pimco

The Children

1990
as Azariah Dobree

Lorna Doone

1990
as Sir Ensor Doone

Wings of Fame

1990
as Merrick

The Fruit Machine

1988
as Vincent

Ada dans la jungle

1988
as Lord Gordon

Fortunes of War

1987
as Castlebar

Empire of the Sun

1987
as Mr. Lockwood

High Season

1987
as Konstantinis

Comrades

1987
as James Frampton

The Box of Delights

1984
as Abner Brown

Birth of a Nation

1983
as Vic Griffiths

Ill Fares the Land

1983

By The Sword Divided

1983

The Winter's Tale

1981
as Polixenes

The Games of Countess Dolingen

1981
as Le professeur

Holocaust

1978
as Uncle Kurt Dorff

The Shout

1978
as Medical Man

Six Plays By Alan Bennett

1978

La nuit, tous les chats sont gris

1977
as Charles Watson

The Duellists

1977
as Gen. Treillard

The Asphyx

1972
as Sir Hugo Cunningham

Travels with My Aunt

1972
as Ercole Visconti

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970
as Sherlock Holmes

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969
as Teddy Lloyd

Julius Caesar

1969
as Mark Antony

Romeo and Juliet

1968
as the Prince

Ten Days That Shook the World

1967
as Lenin

Morgan!

1966
as Charles Napier

The Small World of Sammy Lee

1963
as Gerry Sullivan

Cleopatra

1963
as Germanicus

The Inspector

1962
as Dickens

Lunch Hour

1961
as Man

The Queen's Guards

1961
as Henry Wynne-Walton

A Taste of Honey

1961
as Peter Smith

Pirates of Tortuga

1961
as Henri Morgan

A Circle of Deception

1960
as Captain Stein

Director

Movie House of Fallen 2008

Writer

Movie House of Fallen 2008

Producer

Movie EFC 2021
Movie Simple Superstar 2014
Movie House of Fallen 2008

Guest Star

Episode This Week in Google
No Google For You 		2012
Episode Triangulation
Robert Stephens 		2012
Episode Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Orpheus and Eurydice 		1991
Episode Celebrity Playhouse (1981)
Eden End 		1981
Episode Playhouse
Hesther For Example 		1980
Episode ITV Playhouse
Friends In Space 		1980
Episode Late Night Drama
M + M 		1974
Episode ITV Playhouse
The Photographer 		1968