Nicholas Le Prevost
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Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor.
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Early life
Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964. At school, he studied Ecclesiastical Architecture, and has said that, had he not become an actor, he would have liked to be an architect. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. [1] [2]
Acting career
His TV and radio credits include Coronation Street , The Imitation Game , It Takes a Worried Man , The Jewel in the Crown , HR , Brideshead Revisited , The Camomile Lawn , Harnessing Peacocks , Babblewick Hall , The Ghosts of Motley Hall , Up the Garden Path , The War of the Worlds , Inspector Morse , Midsomer Murders , Foyle's War , Agatha Christie's Poirot , The Vicar of Dibley and A Man for All Seasons . [3] [4]
At the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards, he was nominated for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical or Entertainment, for his performance in a 2001 West End production of My Fair Lady . [5] Also in 2002, he appeared as Benedick in Gregory Doran's production of Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, opposite Harriet Walter. [6] [7]
Since 2003, Le Prevost has been portraying Georges Simenon's fictional detective Jules Maigret for BBC Radio, replacing the late Maurice Denham in the role. [8] In 2005, he appeared as W. Somerset Maugham in a BBC Radio adaption of the author's novel The Razor's Edge . [9]
His film work includes Clockwise , The Girl in a Swing , and Shakespeare in Love . [3] In 2009 he appeared on television in Margaret . [10]
In July 2010, he appeared in a double bill of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. [11]
In 2010, he appeared in ITV drama Wild at Heart as Gene. [12]
From February 2015, he appeared in Man and Superman at the National Theatre, London. [13]
Le Prevost is a director of The Wrestling School, a London theatre company specialising in the work of Howard Barker. [12]
In 2015, he appeared as Count Fiskon in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode "The Lair of the Libertines". [14] In 2016, he had a cameo role as an investment banker for a fictitious London-based firm called Waterston and Price in the Danish thriller Follow the Money, which was shown on BBC 4 in spring of that year.
Partial filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | The Nearly Man | Phillip | Episode: "Millie - May 1945" |
| 1976-8 | The Ghosts of Motley Hall | Sir Francis 'Fanny' Uproar/ St John Desmond | 20 episodes |
| 1977 | Don't Forget to Write! | Dusty | 2 episodes |
| 1978 | Crown Court | Tony Hodgson | Episode: "The Song Not the Singer" |
| 1979 | Bless Me, Father | Dr Spinks | Episode: "Father Neil's First Miracle" |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Peter Molyneux | An Affinity With Dr Still | |
| 1979-81 | Shelley | Inspector/ Nayland | 2 episodes |
| 1980 | Play For Today | Turner | The Imitation Game |
| 1981 | Brideshead Revisited | Doctor | Episode: "The Unseen Hook" |
| The Borgias | Baglioni | 5 episodes | |
| Strangers | Silas Wagstaff | Episode: "The Flowers of Edinburgh" | |
| 1981-3 | It Takes a Worried Man | Simon | 12 episodes |
| 1982 | Crystal Gazing | Examiner No.1 | Film |
| The Agatha Christie Hour | Derek Wainwright | In a Glass Darkly | |
| 1982-4 | Crown Court | John Fletcher-Reed | 3 episodes |
| 1983 | The Bounder | Softly Simpson | Episode: "A Genuine Simpson" |
| Jemima Shore Investigates | Nick Beckleigh | Episode: "A Promising Death" | |
| 1984 | The Jewel in the Crown | Nigel Rowan | 6 episodes |
| Dr. Fischer of Geneva | Albert | TV movie | |
| 1985 | Time and the Conways | Gerald Thornton | TV movie |
| 1986 | C.A.T.S. Eyes | Roy Donahue | Episode: "One Way" |
| Clockwise | Headmaster No.3 | Film | |
| Screen Two | Alistair | Hard Travelling | |
| 1988 | The Girl in a Swing | Vicar | Film |
| South of the Border | Bridger | 1 episode | |
| 1989 | The Ginger Tree | Sir Claude MacDonald | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | Stolen | Tom | 4 episodes |
| 1990-3 | Up the Garden Path | Michael | 17 episodes |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Nick | Film |
| Van Der Valk | Van Hoorn | Episode: "A Sudden Silence" | |
| 1992 | The Camomile Lawn | Hamish/ Hector | 5 episodes |
| 1993 | Lovejoy | Bill Parker | Episode: "Ducking and Diving" |
| Harnessing Peacocks | Mungo Duff | TV movie | |
| 1994 | The Vicar of Dibley | Daniel Frobisher | Episode: "The Window and the Weather" |
| 1995 | Inspector Morse | Dr. Alan Hardinge | Episode: "The Way Through the Woods" |
| 1996 | Letters from the East | Alan | Film |
| 1998 | Midsomer Murders | Esslyn Carmichael | Episode: "Death of a Hollow Man" |
| The Land Girls | Agricultural Officer | Film | |
| Shakespeare in Love | Sir Robert De Lesseps | Film | |
| 2000 | Being Considered | Houston Jones | Film |
| 2001 | Kavanagh QC | Lord Cranston | Episode: "The End of Law" |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Lord Maitland | Film |
| Fortysomething | Peter Mailer | 1 episode | |
| Foyle's War | Arthur Lewes | Episode: "Fifty Ships" | |
| 2003-4 | My Dad's The Prime Minister | Headmaster | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Gladiatress | Crassus | Film |
| 2005 | The Murder Room | Marcus Dupayne | 2 episodes |
| Absolute Power | Lord Henry Cox-Wycliffe | Episode: "The Nation's Favourite" | |
| 2006 | Poirot | Major James Porter | Episode: "Taken at the Flood" |
| Silent Witness | Professor Lionel Clune | 2 episodes | |
| 2008 | Miss Conception | Dr. Dupompe | Film |
| Broken Lines | Alistair | Film | |
| Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story | Ken | TV movie | |
| 2009 | Midsomer Murders | Jerry Drinkwater | Episode: "The Dogleg Murders" |
| Cranford | Mr. Peter Jenkins | 2 episodes | |
| Doc Martin | Robert | 2 episodes | |
| Psychoville | Graham | 2 episodes | |
| 2010 | Made in Romania | Cedric Winters | Film |
| Wild at Heart | Gene | 1 episode | |
| 2012 | Run for Your Wife | D. S. Porterhouse | Film |
| 2014 | Testament of Youth | Mr. Leighton | Film |
| 2015 | Father Brown | Count Fiskon | Episode: "The Lair of the Libertines" |
| 2019 | Here Comes Hell | Ichabod Quinn | Film |
| The War of the Worlds | Chamberlain | 2 episodes | |
| 2022 | The Larkins | Sir George Bluff-Gore | 3 episodes |
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- ↑ Staff; agencies (17 January 2002). "Broadway musicals lead Olivier nominations". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford-Upon-Avon". the Guardian. 10 May 2002. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ↑ "Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford-Upon-Avon". the Guardian. 10 May 2002.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - George Simenon - Maigret, Series 1, My Friend Maigret". BBC.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge, episode 1". BBC.
- ↑ "Margaret (2009)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017.
- ↑ Spencer, Charles (12 July 2010). "The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, review" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- 1 2 "Orange Tree TheatreWinter Solstice - Whats On - Orange Tree Theatre". www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk.
- ↑ Billington, Michael (26 February 2015). "Man and Superman review – Ralph Fiennes masters Shaw's contrary male". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "BBC One - Father Brown, Series 3, The Lair of the Libertines". BBC.
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