CORONATION STREET, 1975
An English soap opera
Linus Roache as Peter Barlow
THE ONEDIN LINE, 1974 and '76
England, the saga of a 19th-century Liverpool shipping family
Linus Roache as a boy with the bubonic plague
A SORT OF INNOCENCE
Linus Roache as Richard Davidson
SARACEN
England, a police series
directed by: Antonia Bird
cast: Linus Roache as Daniel McAvaddy
OMNIBUS: VINCENT VAN GOGH, 1990
England, a mini-series about the life of Vincent van Gogh
directed and produced by: Anna Benson Gyles
cast:
Linus Roache as Vincent van Gogh
Kevin Wallace as Theo van Gogh
Jack Shepherd as Gauguin
Anna Cropper as van Gogh's Mother
David Collings as Father
Virginia Radcliffe as Sien
Jim Broadbent as Postman Roulin
Joanna Roth as Eugenie
Elvi Hale as Madame Loyer
Victor Spinetti as Dr. Gachet
Carol Starks as Marquerite
Lawrence Donne as The Gateman
Peter O'Farre as Tolouse-Lautrec
Patric Barlow as Dr. Peyron
Terence Bayler as Tersteec/Pisarro
Claire Vousden as Kee
Martin Duncan as Impressionist Man
Deddie Davies as Madame Denis
Alfred Hoffman as Mayor
Antoniette van Belle as French Tour Operator
Neville Barber as Poulet
Ann Tirard as Grandmother
Andrew Snoad as Young Vincent
Luke Marcel as Young Theo
Pat Quayle as Mother Superior
Lucia Fausset as Johanna
Marika as Chanteuse
Eiji Kusuhara as Japanese Man
KEEPING TOM NICE, 1989
England, a story of Tom, a severely handicapped young man, and his family
written by: Lucy Gannon
produced by: Ruth Caleb
directed by: Louise Panton
cast:
Linus Roache as Tom
John Alderton as Doug
Gwen Taylor as Winnie
Henrietta Bess as Charlie
Sean Chapman as Stephen
Ann Curthoys as Clare
BLACK AND BLUE
England, TV Film, A black police officer tries to work in a racist police station in London
written by: G. F. Newman
cast:
Christopher John Hall as Maurice Knight
Rowena King as Roberta Ford
Martin Shaw as c/supt Mike Barclay
Ian Glen as Commander Powell
Don Henderson as Daddy Brett-Smith
Linus Roache as DC Brian Tait
David Morrisey as DC Norman Mills
Fraser James as Benny Soares
Ray Winstone, Clive Wedderburn, Terry Sue Patt, Colin McFarlane, Sidney Cole, Andrew Wilde, Bill Leadbitter, Madhav Sharma, James Smith, Nicholas Monu, Charlie Hawkins, Neville Robinson, Cynthia Powell, Roger Sewell, Jeillo Edwards, Sheila Whitefield, Eddie Nestor, David Thewlis, David Keys, Mark Ramsay-Jones, Myron McCay, Clarence Venson, Sunshine, Dora Dixon-Fyle, Doris Isarov
SEAFORTH, 1994
England, TV-series about a life in a farm during WW II
directer by Stuart Bulge and Martyn Friend
cast:
Linus Roache in the leading role as Bob Longman
Ciaran Hinds as John Stacey
Lia Williams as Paula
Michael Bertenshaw as Dr. Willis
NO SURRENDER, 1985
England, comedy, plot: a normal night out these days
directed by: Peter Smith
written by: Alan Bleasdale
cast:
Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage, James Ellis, Tom Georgeson, Bernard Hill, Ray McAnally, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Mark Mulholland, J.G. Devlin, Vince Earl, Ken Jones, Michael Ripper, Majorie Sudell, Joan Turner, Elvis Costello, Ian Hart, Linus Roache as Ulster Boy
LINK, 1986
England, horror/thriller
directed by: Richard Franklin
written by: Lee David Zlotoff and Tom Ackermann
cast:
Elisabeth Shue as Jane Chase
Terence Stamp as Dr. Steven Phillip
Steven Pinner as David
Richard Garnett as Dennis
David O'Hara as Tom
Kevin Lloyd as Bailey
Joe Belcher as Taxi Driver
Daisy Beevers, Geoffrey Beevers, Caroline John, Linus Roache uncredited
MISTER GOD
THIS IS ANNA
PRIEST, 1995
England, drama, a story of a homosexual catholic priest
directed by: Antonia Bird
written by: Jimmy McGovern
cast:
Linus Roache as Father Greg Pilkington
Tom Wilkinson as Father Matthew Thomas
Cathy Tyson as Maria Kerrigan
Robert Carlyle as Graham
Leslie Sharp as Maggie Unsworth
Christine Tremarco as Lisa Unsworth
Robert Pugh as Phill Unsworth
Paul Barber as Charlie
Rio Fanning as The Bishop
Jimmy Coleman, Bill Dean, James Ellis, Gilly Coman, Fred Pearson, Jimmy Gallagher, Tony Booth, Matyelok Gibbs, John Bennett, Bobby Martino
ANIMATED WORLD FAITHS - THE LIFE OF CHRIST
animation series
Linus Roache as Christ (voise)
ROMEO AND JULIET, 1996
Wales/Russia, animation series of Shakespeare's plays
series producer and director: Dave Edwards
adaptation: Leon Garfield
produced by: Renat Zinnurov
directed by: Efim Gamburg
dubbing engineer: Billy Mahoney
cast (voises):
Felicity Kendal as Narrator
Linus Roache as Romeo
Clare Holman as Juliet
Jonathan Cullen as Benvolio
Greg Hicks as Mercutio
Brenda Bruce as Nurse
Garard Green as Friar Laurence
Brendan Charleston as Tybalt
Charles Kay as Capulet
Maggie Steed as Lady Capulet
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, 1997
USA/England, drama/romance
directed by: Iain Softley
written by: Hossein Amini based on a novel by Henry James
cast:
Helena Bonham Carter as Kate Croy
Linus Roache as Merton Densher
Alison Elliot as Millie Theale
Elizabeth McGovern as Susan
Alex Jennings as Lord Mark
Charlotte Rampling as Aunt Maude
Ben Miles, Philip Wright, Alexander John, Shirley Chantrell, Georgio Serafini, Rachele Crisafulli
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART, 1998
USA, war/drama, Based on a true story about the war between the serbs and the croats
directed by: David Attwood
written by: Guy Hibbert
cast:
Linus Roache as Vlado Sarzinski
Vincent Perez as Slavko Simic
Lia Williams as Maida Sarzinski
Karianne Henderson as Nadja
Lothaire Bluteau as Zijah
Adam Kotz as Misho
Soo Garay as Amela
Viktoria Bajza as Lenka
Balazs Farkas as Malik
Caroline Trowbridge as Natasha
Zoltan Rajkai as Duranovics
Barnabas Toth as Oroz
SIAM SUNSET, 1999
Australia/England, comedy, An englishman who's lost his wife travels to Australia to search for a color called siam sunset
directed by: John Polson
cast:
Linus Roache as Perry
Danielle Cormack as Grace
Roy Billing as Bill Leach
Ian Bliss as Martin
Alan Brough as Stuart Quist
Rebecca Hobbs as Jane
Terry Kenwrick as Arthur Droon
Deirdre Rubenstein as Celia Droon
Heidi Glover as Stephanie Droon
Peter Hoskins as Roy Wentworth
Victoria Eagger as Rowena Wentworth
Lachlan Standing as Ben Wentworth
Esme Melvill as Dot
Alan Lovell as Stan Porter
Choung Dao as Mr. Nguyen
BEST, 1999
England, a lifestory of a former Manchester United football legend George Best
directed by: Mary McGuckian
cast:
Ian Bannen as Sir Matt Busby
John Lynch as George Best
Linus Roache as Dennis Law
Sean Wightman as Chelsea Cop
Roger Daltrey as Rodney Marsh
Jerome Flynn as Sir Bobby Charlton
Stephen Fry as Frazer Crane
Jamie Campbell as London Cop
Ian Hart as Nobby Stiles
Patsy Kensit as Angie Best
THE VENICE PROJECT, 1999
Austria/U.S., drama, People tell about their relationship to art
directed by: Robert Dornhelm
written by: Nicholas Klein
cast:
Lauren Bacall as Countess Camilla Volta
Dennis Hopper as Roland/Salvatore
Linus Roache as Count Jacko/Count Giaccomo
Ben Cross as Rudy Mestry/Bishop Orsini
Stuart Townsend as Lark/Gippo The Fool
Hector Babenco as Danilo Danuzzi
Dean Stockwell as Senator Campbell
John Wood as The Viscount
Stockard Channing as Chandra Chase
Victoria Duffy as Jenna
Anna Galiena as Maria/Sophia
Mia Maestro as Danilla
Parker Posey as Myra
Frederique van der Wal as Alana/Lucrezia
Ed Ruscha as J.J. Rinquist
Lucia Hwong as Lutist
Gert Böckmann as Pendergrass
PANDAEMONIUM, 2001
England/USA, a story of the relationship between poets Coleridge and Wordsworth
directed by: Julien Temple
written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce
produced by: Nick O'Hagan
cast:
Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Hannah as William Wordsworth
Emily Woof
Samantha Morton as Sara Coleridge
BEYOND BORDERS
Coming up in autumn 2002.
England, drama/romance
director: Martin Campbell
written by: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
cast:
Angelina Jolie as Sarah Jordan
Clive Owen as Nick Callahan
Teri Polo as Charlotte
Linus Roache as Henry Bauford
Noah Emmerich, Norman Mikael Berketa, Mark Antony Krupa, Emma Stevens
HART'S WAR, 2001
USA, a courtroom drama about a soldier who was ill-treated by the Nazis in WW II
director: Gregory Hoblit
writitten by: Billy Ran based on a novel by John Katzenbach
cast:
Colin Farrell as Lt. Thomas W. Hart
Bruce Willis as Col. William A. MacNamara
Linus Roache as Capt. Peter A. Ross
Terrence Dashon Howard as Lt. Lincoln A. Scott
Cole Hauser as Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford
Marcel Iures as Col. Werner Visser
Vicellous Reon Shannon as Lt. Lamar T. Archer
Maury Sterling as Pfc. Dennis A. Gerber
Sam Jaeger as Capt. R.G. Sisk
Scott Michael Campbell as Cpl. Joe S. Cromin
Rory Cochrane as Sgt. Carl S. Webb
Sebastian Tillinger as Pvt. Bert D. "Moose" Codman
THE GATHERING STORM, 2002
England, a TV-film about Winston Churchill
directed by: Richard Loncraine
screenlay: Hugh Whitemore
executive producers: Ridley Scott and Tony Scott
cast:
Albert Finney as Winston Churchill
Vanessa Redgrave as Clementine Churchill
Linus Roache as Ralph Wigram
Jim Broadbent as Desmont Morton
Lena Headley as Ava Wigram
Tom Wilkinson as Sir Robert Vansittard
Derek Jacobi as Stanley Baldwin
Ronnie Barker, Gottfrien John, Edward Hardwicke, Walter Sittler
RFK
A biopic of Robert F. Kenedy.
RUMOR: Dr. Who
THE POETRY OF LORD BYRON, 1997
Audiobooks by HarperCollins
read by Linus Roache
BILLY LIAR, 1997
written by: Keith Waterhouse
read by: Linus Roache
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS
Audiobooks by Reed Abridged
written by: Erskine Childers
read by: Linus Roache
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
directed by: Adrian Bean
cast:
Oliver Reed, Linus Roache, Lionell Jeffries, Roger Daltrey
SONG OF LOVE, 1998
Based on the correspondence between poet Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, a society beauty he adored
directed by: Pippa Harris
produced by: Peter Kavanagh, BBC
cast:
Helena Bonham Carter as Noel Olivier
Linus Roache as Rupert Brooke
CLOUDBERRIES, 1999
A lifestory of Alexander Pushkin by Elaine Feinstein, BBC Radio 4, featured on Wednesday, 26 May '99
directed by: Erin Riley
written by: Elaine Feinstein
cast:
Linus Roache, Emily Mortimer
CONTACT THEATRE (Manchester): A COLDER CLIMATE
Linus Roache as Pavell
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: INDIGO
Linus Roache as William
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: A QUESTION OF GEOGRAPHY, 1987
directed by: John Caird
written by: John Berger and Nella Bielski
cast:
Jimmy Gardener, Sean Pertwee, Linus Roache, Clive Russell, Harriet Walter
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR, 1988
Linus Roache as Mark Antony
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHAKESPEARE'S TITUS ANDRONICUS, 1988
Linus Roache as Caius
ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE AT LYTTLETON THEATRE: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, 1989
written by Sean O'Casey
assistant director Tim Supple
staff director Leona Heimfeld
dialect coach Julia Wilson-Dickson
production manager Roger Hulley
costume supervisor Carrie Bayliss
sound by Paul Groothuis
lighting by Mark Seaman
designer Deirdre Clancy
cast:
Rosalind Bennett as Mary Boyle
Linus Roache as Johnny Boyle
Linda Bassett as Juno Boyle
Fabian Cartwright as Jerry Devine
Tony Hagarth as Captain Jack Boyle
Tom Hickey as Joxer Daly
Harry Webster as The Sewing Machine Man
Richard Bonneville as Charles Bentham
Aine Ni Mhuiri as Mars Maisie Madigan
Pauline Delany as Mrs Tancred
Paul Conway, Deirdre Halligan, Melee Hutton, Tricia Kelly, Derry Power, Paul McCleary, Neil Clark, Peter Dineen, Aidan Gillen, Peter Gill
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (at Almeida Theatre): KEEPING TOM NICE, 1987
written by: Lucy Gannon
cast: Linus Roache as Tom
THE PIT: STEPHEN LOWE'S DIVINE GOSSIP, 1988
musical-comedy
Linus Roache as Eric Blair
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: RICHARD II
Linus Roache as Aumerle
THE ODEON THEATRE (Paris): THE BOOK OF SPENCER
Linus Roache as Edward The King
ROYAL COURT: THIS IS A CHAIR
Linus Roache as Julian
ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE COMPANY (Manchester): TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' THE GLASS MENAGERIE
16 November-16 December 1989
director: Ian Hastings
designer: David Short
lighting: Michael Calf
sound: Philip Clifford
dialect coach: Charmian Hoare
cast:
Linus Roache as Tom Wingfield
Avril Elgar as Amanda Wingfield
Geraldine Somerville as Laura Wingfield
Adrian Rawlins as Jim O'Connor
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR, 1990
directed by: Nicholas Hytner
cast:
John Wood as King Lear
Ralph Fiennes as Edmund
Linus Roache as Edgar
Alex Kingston as Cordelia
Estelle Kohler as Goneril
Sally Dexter as Regan
Norman Rodway as Glouchester
David Troughton as Kent
Linda Kerr Scott as Fool
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S EDWARD II
cast: Linus Roache as Edward II
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE COMPANY(Manchester): SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
10 September-17 October 1992
directed by: James McDonald
designer: Kandis Cook
lighting: Ace McCarron
sound: Philip Clifford
music: Mark Vibrans
dialect coach: Penny Dyer
text work: Helen Strange
musician: Dmitri van Zwanenberg
cast:
Stephen Tompkinson as King Ferdinand of Navarre
Linus Roache as Berowne
Ray Fearon as Longaville
Meredith Davies as Dumaine
Bernard Bresslaw as Don Adriano de Armado
Sue Devaney as Moth
David Ross as Holofernes
Roger Delves-Broughton as Sir Nathaniel
Andy Greenhalg as Dull
Peter-Hugo Daly as Costard
Sophie Stanton as Jaquenetta
Gordon Rowe as A Forester/Marcade
Patricia Kerrigan as Princess of France
Suzan Sylvester as Rosaline
Charlotte Jones as Maria
Valerie Gogan as Katharine
John Bennett as Boyet
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATER COMPANY(Manchester): SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD II
9 September-9 October 1993
directed by: James McDonald
designer: Kandis Cook
lighting by: Johanna Town
sound by: Rebecca Watts
music by: Mark Vibrans and Colin Thorpe
fights by: Terry King
text work by: Helen Strange
cast:
Linus Roache as King Richard II
James Maxwell as John of Gaunt/Abbott of Westminster
Richard Bremmer as Lord Marshal/Lord Ross/Sir Stephen Scroop/Duke of Surrey
Neil Dudgeon as Henry Bolingbroke
David Fielder as Thomas Mowbray/Earl of Salisbury/Gardener/Exton's Man
Sue Johnston as Duchess of Glouchester/Duchess of York
Peter Hamilton Dyer as Duke of Aumerle/Lord Berkeley
Peter Rylands as Sir Henry Green/Gardener's Assistant/Keeper of the prison at Pomfret
Ewan Bailey as Sir John Bushy/Lord Fitzwater
Simon Harris as Sir John Bagot/A Welsh Captain/Sir Piers Exton
Ewan Hooper as Duke of York
Dermot Kerrigan as Mowbray's Herald/Harry Percy
Claire Rushbrook as Bolingbroke's Herald/Duke of York's Servant/Lady in waiting/Groom
Fred Pearson as Earl of Northumberland
Wyllie Longmore as Lord Willoughby/Bishop of Carlisle
Susan Lyngh as Queen Isabel
serwingmen and officers: Howard Chadwick, Joseph Murray, Andy Smith, Andrew Whitehead
ALMEIDA THEATRE (London): THE DEEP BLUE SEA, 1993
A story of an ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page who's in love with a wife of a very public figure
written by: Terence Rattigan
directed by: Karl Reisz
cast: Linus Roache as Freddie Page
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Stratford-Upon-Avon): TIRSO DE MOLINA'S THE LAST DAYS OF DON JUAN
adapted by: Nick Dear
directed by: Danny Boyle
designed by: Kandis Cook
lighting by: Geraint Pughe
cast:
Linus Roache as Don Juan Tenorio
Julie Saunders as Duchess Isabella
Raymond Bowers as King of Naples/Gaseno
Ciaran Hinds as Don Pedro Tenorio
Peter de Jersey as Duke Octavio
Katrina Levon as Tisbea
Sally Dexter as Catalina
Stephen Casey as Coridon/Manuel/Shepherd/Guard
Polly Kemp as Belisa/Maria
Michael Gardiner as King of Castile
Sylvester Morand as Don Gonzalo Ulloa
David Killick as Don Diego Tenorio
Paterson Joseph as Marquis de Mota
Yolanda Vasquez as Dona Anna
George Anton as Batricio
Catherine White as Aminta
Georgiana Dacompe as Francisca/Julia
Simon Austin as Salvador/Guard/Shepherd
Lloyd Hutchinson as Guard/Stone Mason/Shepherd
Colin Wyatt as Shepherd/Stone Mason/Courtier
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY-YOUNG VIC: CHEKHOV'S UNCLE VANYA, 1997
directed by: Katie Mitchell
cast:
Stephen Dillane as Vanya
Anastasia Hille as Yelena
Linus Roache as Dr. Astrov
Jo McInnes as Sonya
GREASE
musical
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY-OLD VIC: FIVE FINGER EXCERCISE
Linus Roache as Clive Harrington
ROYAL THEATRE (Northampton): SHELAGH DELANEY'S A TASTE OF HONEY
Linus Roache as Geoffrey
ALMEIDA THEATRE: SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD II AND CORIOLANUS
(In Gainsborough Studios, London)
From April 12th to August 5th 2000
director: Jonathan Kent
cast of both plays in alphabetical order:
John Bennett
David Bourge as John of Gaunt/Cominius
Stephen Campbell-Moore
Alan David
Angela Down as Duchess of Glouchester/Valeria
Philip Dunbar
David Fahm
Ralph Fiennes as Richard II/Coriolanus
Oliver Ford Davies as Duke of York/Menenius
Bernard Gallagher as Bishop of Carlisle/Brutus
Barbara Jefford as Duchess of York/Volumnia
Danielle King
Damian O'Hare
Linus Roache as Henry Bolingbroke/Aufidius
Oliver Ryan
Robert Swann as Northumberland/Titus Laritus
Ed Waters
Plays also in New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, from September 6th to October 1st 2000, more information in BAM webpages.
And in Tokyo, Akasaka Theatre in 11-29 October 2000.
