Robert Stephens
Biography
Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes. He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted. Description above partly from the Wikipedia article Robert Stephens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
0Tony Awards
1956
Minder
1979
ITV Playhouse
1967
ITV Playhouse
1967
ITV Playhouse
1967
Playhouse
1974
Inspector Morse
1987
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Filmography
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
Minder
as Percy · 1979
ITV Playhouse
as The Duke of Bristol · 1967
ITV Playhouse
as Bryan Baker · 1967
ITV Playhouse
as James Woodley · 1967
Playhouse
as Warburton · 1974
Inspector Morse
as Sir Wilfred Mulryne · 1987
BBC Play of the Month
as Mark Antony · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Trigorin · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Oberon · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Grigory Rasputin · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Prince of Wales · 1965
Theatre 625
as Stephen · 1964
Theatre 625
as Boris Trigorin · 1964
War and Remembrance
as Karl Rahm · 1988
Empire of the Sun
as Mr. Lockwood · 1987
NET Playhouse
as Mark Anthony · 1966
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Hades · 1991
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Max Carrados · 1971
Cleopatra
as Germanicus · 1963
Romeo and Juliet
as the Prince · 1968
Holocaust
as Uncle Kurt Dorf · 1978
Lady Killers
as Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C. · 1980
A Question of Guilt
as Edward Clarke QC · 1980
War and Peace
as Officer Talking with Natasha (uncredited) · 1956
Channing
as Paddy Riordan · 1963
Unnatural Causes
as Vince · 1986
99-1
as Commander Oakwood · 1994
Fortunes of War
as Bill Castlebar · 1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as Sir Gerald Moore · 1990
Chaplin
as Ted the Drunk · 1992
Henry V
as Auncient Pistol · 1989
The Box of Delights
as Abner Brown · 1984
The Duellists
as Brigadier-General Treillard · 1977
By the Sword Divided
as Sir Ralph Winter · 1983
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Poe's Teacher · 1993
Tales Out of School
as Vic Griffiths · 1983
QB VII
as Robert Highsmith · 1974
Anyone for Denis?
· 1982
Anyone for Denis?
as Schubert · 1982
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes · 1970
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) · 2018
Celebrity Playhouse
as Charles Appleby · 1981
Dandelion Dead
as Henry Vaughan · 1994
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Orpheus & Eurydice
as Hades · 1991
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Teddy Lloyd · 1969
The Mysteries
as Pontius Pilate / Herod · 1985
A Taste of Honey
as Peter Smith · 1961
Vienna 1900
· 1973
The Shout
as Chief Medical Officer · 1978
Hell's Bells
as Bishop Godfrey Hethercote · 1986
Travels with My Aunt
as Ercole Visconti · 1972
The Asphyx
as Sir Hugo Cunningham · 1972
Wings of Fame
as Merrick · 1990
Lizzie's Pictures
· 1987
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Charles Napier · 1966
The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Le professeur · 1981
In My Defence
as Sir Roger Casement · 1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Dan Burns · 1992
Julius Caesar
as Mark Antony · 1969
Birth of a Nation
as Vic Griffiths · 1983
The Pope Must Die
as Camarlengo · 1991
The Year of the French
as George Moore · 1982
Lorna Doone
as Sir Ensor Doone · 1990
The Queen's Guards
· 1961
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick · 1967
The Fruit Machine
as Vincent · 1988
The Winter's Tale
as Polixenes · 1981
The Small World of Sammy Lee
as Gerry Sullivan · 1963
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Oberon · 1971
High Season
as Konstantinis · 1987
Ill Fares the Land
· 1983
Pirates of Tortuga
as Henri Morgan · 1961
Comrades
as James Frampton · 1987
Hesther for Example
as Warburton · 1980
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self (archive footage) · 2024
Luther
as Johann von Eck · 1974
The Inspector
as Dickens · 1962
Lunch Hour
as Man · 1962
Adam Bede
as Reverend Irwine · 1992
Ada in the Jungle
as Lord Gordon · 1988
American Roulette
· 1988
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
as Charles Watson · 1977
One Fine Day
as Welby · 1979
30 Door Key
as Prof. Pimco · 1991
The Children
as Azariah Dobree · 1990
England, My England
as John Dryden · 1995
Century
as Mr. Reisner · 1993
Ten Days That Shook the World
as Lenin · 1967
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Darius of Persia · 1981
Puccini
as Giacomo Puccini · 1984
Testimony
as Vsevolod Meyerhold · 1988
Anyone for Denis
as Schubert · 1982
The Secret Rapture
as Max Lopert · 1993
The Executioner
as Beust · 1980
The Tractor Factor
· 1982
Horizontal Hold
as James Woodley · 1968
Circle of Deception
as Capt. Stein · 1960