Rumpole of the Bailey Cast List
- K-9 and Company, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Rumpole of the BaileyWilliam Simpson Fraser (5 June 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years. In 1986 he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for his stage role in the play When We Are Married.
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, First of the Summer Wine, Rumpole of the BaileyDerek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School. He was the author of the stage farce Running Riot and played Patricia Routledge's character's husband in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–98). Arguably Benfield's best known character portrayal was as transport company foreman Bill Riley in the UK television series The Brothers in the early 1970s. Before this, he starred as Frank Skinner in the 1970 cult sci-fi series broadcast on UK ITV, Timeslip. Some of his other television roles included Walter Greenhalgh in Coronation Street (1961–69), Albert the Clerk in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–80), and characters in Breakaway (1980) and First of the Summer Wine (1988). His film credits include small roles in Crossplot (1969), I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) and Lifeforce (1985). His plays included the farces Post Horn Gallop and Wild Goose Chase, both about the fictional exploits of the eccentric Lord and Lady Elrood and visitors to their castle. He also appeared with Colin Baker as John Hallam in the Doctor Who audio play Catch-1782 produced by Big Finish Productions.
Joanna Van Gyseghem
Rumpole of the Bailey, Duty Free, Down to EarthJoanna Van Gyseghem (born 4 September 1941, Tunbridge Wells) is an English actress, educated at Malvern Girls' College and Trinity College, Dublin. Her father André van Gyseghem was an actor and director, and her mother Jean Forbes-Robertson an actress. Her maternal grandfather was Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and her great-aunt was American actress Maxine Elliott.- Rumpole of the Bailey, Reilly, Ace of SpiesReginald McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002), known professionally as Leo McKern, was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles. Notable roles he portrayed include Clang in Help! (1965), Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Tom Ryan in Ryan's Daughter (1970), Paddy Button in The Blue Lagoon (1980), Dr. Grogan in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Father Imperius in Ladyhawke (1985) and, in the role that made him a household name as an actor, Horace Rumpole, whom he played in Rumpole of the Bailey. He also portrayed Carl Bugenhagen in the first and second installments of The Omen series.
Porridge, Rumpole of the Bailey, Behaving BadlyWilliam Maurice Denham, OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor, who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films in his long career.- The Darling Buds of May, Pride and Prejudice, QuillerMoray Robin Philip Adrian Watson (25 June 1928 – 2 May 2017) was an English actor from Sunningdale, Berkshire.
- Miranda, Edward & Mrs. Simpson, Edward and Mrs SimpsonPatricia Ann Hodge, OBE (born 29 September 1946) is an English actor. She made her West End debut in 1972 and starred in the 1973 West End production of Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse. She received two Olivier Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical, before winning the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the play Money. Other roles include the 1983 film Betrayal, the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), the 1986 TV adaptation of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and the TV film Hotel du Lac (1986), for which she received a Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nomination. From 2009 to 2015, she starred in the BBC sitcom Miranda.
- Rumpole of the Bailey, Witch HuntPeter Blythe (14 September 1934 – 27 June 2004) was an English character actor, probably best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard in Rumpole of the Bailey.
- To the Manor Born, Only When I Laugh, The Irish R.M.Peter Bowles (born 16 October 1936) is an English actor of stage and television.
- The Moomins, Rumpole of the Bailey, Living It UpRichard Bernard Murdoch (6 April 1907 – 9 October 1990) was a British actor and entertainer.
- Bleak House, I Didn't Know You Cared, Rumpole of the BaileyWilliam Henry Mettam "Robin" Bailey (5 October 1919 – 14 January 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Mr Justice Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole of the Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know You Cared, the BBC's adaptation of Peter Tinniswood's stories about an extended Yorkshire family. The television series ran from 1975 to 1979, and is available on DVD. Bailey continued to play Uncle Mort in a series of radio programmes. Bailey also collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series Tales from a Long Room, playing the Brigadier, an eccentric cricket-lover with a fund of extraordinary tales about the game and its players.
- Disney's House of Mouse, Taz-Mania, C.A.T.S. EyesRosalyn Landor (born 7 October 1958) is an English film, television and stage actress and audio book narrator.
Samantha Bond
Downton Abbey, Outnumbered, Lark Rise to CandlefordSamantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, perhaps best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the series' Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also well-known for originating the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.- The Glittering Prizes, Rumpole of the BaileyJulian Burnlee Curry (born 8 December 1937 in Devon) is an English actor best known for playing Claude Erskine-Browne in ITV's comedy-drama Rumpole of the Bailey.
- Longitude, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Scarlet PimpernelJonathan Coy is a British actor born in Hammersmith, London on 24 April 1953. He has worked since 1975 largely in television, notably as Henry in the long-running legal series Rumpole and as Bracegirdle in the television series Hornblower, adapted from the books by C. S. Forester. He also appeared as the German character, Kurt, in the British television series Brideshead Revisited, in Season 1, Episode 7, entitled The Unseen Hook, and Colin Grove in The Sandbaggers in 1978. In 2008 he played Lloyd in a UK tour of the play Noises Off, Leonato in the 2011 Wyndham's Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing, with David Tennant, and Colonel Luykin in Pinero's The Magistrate at the Royal National Theatre in 2012-13, a production that was included in Season 4 of National Theatre Live. He also played a German spy called "Hans Maier" in the BBC Series Foyle's War, Series 2 Episode 1; and played the Prince of Wales in the BBC series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999). In 2003 he played Henry VIII in the Six Mothers-in-law of Henry VIII 'an unreliable history', on BBC Radio 4. He appeared in the 2001 critically acclaimed television film Conspiracy as Erich Neumann, the Director of the Office of the Four Year Plan. His main scenes were with Brendan Coyle, who played Gestapo General Heinrich Muller. He would be reunited with Coyle over 10 years later on the set of Downton Abbey, where Coy played Mr. George Murray, Lord Grantham's lawyer. In 2014 he appeared in the world premiere production of Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse, London, and in 2015 in the world premiere production of Stoppard's The Hard Problem.
- Rumpole of the Bailey, A J Wentworth, BAMarion Mathie (6 February 1925 – 20 January 2012) was an English actress who appeared in the last four series of Rumpole of the Bailey as his fearsome wife, Hilda ("She Who Must Be Obeyed"); and many other roles in other productions, including Mrs Susan Wyse in the London Weekend Television adaptation of the Mapp and Lucia books by E. F. Benson.
Denys Graham
Rumpole of the Bailey, Newman and Baddiel in PiecesDenys Graham (born 29 June 1926) is a Welsh actor who appeared in the later series of Rumpole of the Bailey as his many daughtered colleague Percy Hoskins. He also played a range of other roles on stage and screen.He was educated at New College, Oxford and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.He is best known for his role as Kaiser Wilhelm II in the 1979 film All Quiet on the Western Front.- Rumpole of the Bailey, The CharmerAbigail McKern (born 1955) is an English actress who appeared, alongside her father Leo, in the last three series of Rumpole of the Bailey as his young pupil Liz Probert. She has played many other roles on stage and screen.
