Rupert Frazer

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Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor. [1]

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Career

His work in theatre includes performances at the Citizens Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. [2] In 1975, he played the title role in the first British stage production of Seneca's Thyestes . [3] Other theatre roles include Ferdinand in The Tempest and Tamburlaine. [4] [5] [6]

He appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi in 1982. [7] In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (Christian Bale). [8] [9]

Other roles include Philip Castallack in Penmarric (1979), [10] [11] Muller in Eye of the Needle (1981), Lionel Stephens in The Shooting Party (1985), [12] Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in a 1986 tv-production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest , [13] Alan Desland in The Girl in a Swing (1988), [14] [15] Lord Alexander Montford in The House of Eliott [16] and Neville Chamberlain in Downton Abbey . [17]

Personal life

Frazer is married with three children. [18]

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  3. ↑ Davis, Peter J (2003). Seneca : Thyestes. Duckworth Books. p. 31. ISBN   0715632221.
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  13. ↑ "The Listener". British Broadcasting Corporation. May 1988. Retrieved 4 March 2020. Rupert Frazer had the tone right, and could have passed for a refugee from another and more appropriate generation of acting
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