1928-04-05 ( 97 years old ) in London, England, UK
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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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Movies
The Curse Of Denton Rose
2020-12-17
The Deep
2007-07-08
The Miracle Maker
2000-03-31
King Lear
1998-03-21
Hamlet
1996-12-25
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995-10-08
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993-01-10
Heading Home
1991-01-13
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988-10-01
Sakharov
1984-06-20
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982-12-28
Gandhi
1982-12-01
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982-11-09
Short Back and Sides
1977-05-03
My Homeland
1976-11-03
The Daedalus Equations
1976-10-20
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
1974-12-23
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974-08-08
Is It Something I Said?
1974-07-22
Mr. Axelford's Angel
1974-06-05
The Professional
1973-03-03
The Stone Tape
1972-12-25
The Duchess of Malfi
1972-10-10
The Ruling Class
1972-09-13
The Greeks and Their Gifts
1972-06-20
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971-11-29
The Switch
1971-06-08
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
1970-02-12
The Three Sisters
1970-01-18
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969-11-05
The Explorer
1968-10-14
Mille Miglia
1968-08-05
Torture Garden
1967-11-01
Easier in the Dark
1967-02-25
The Deadly Affair
1967-01-26
The Mind Benders
1963-02-01
Life for Ruth
1962-09-06
A Night to Remember
1958-07-03
Uranium Boom
1956-03-02
Passage Home
1955-03-17
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