"Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer's ""Equus"" during the mid-1970s. After he succeeded Peter Firth in the role at the Old Vic in London, the production embarked on a two-and-a-half year worldwide tour. In the United States national production, he starred with Brian Bedford, and earned standing ovations and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor. Of his performance of the role at the Wilbur Theatre, ""The Harvard Crimson"" commented that ""Bradley has the most difficult role to play in Equus and he is outstanding."" Likewise, his portrayal of the character was praised as being ""profoundly sensitive,"" with"
"play ""Equus"", which had not been revived since its first run in 1973, at the Gielgud Theatre. Radcliffe took on the lead role as Alan Strang, a stable boy who has an obsession with horses. Advance sales topped £1.7 million, and the role generated significant pre-opening media interest, as Radcliffe appeared in a nude scene. ""Equus"" opened on 27 February 2007 and ran until 9 June 2007. Radcliffe's performance received positive reviews as critics were impressed by the nuance and depth of his against-type role. Charles Spencer of ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote that he ""displays a dramatic power and an"
"Keith McDermott Keith McDermott (born September 28, 1953) is an American actor, theater director, and writer. McDermott was born September 28, 1953 in Houston, Texas, the son of Betty Ray (Rees) and James E. McDermott. McDermott graduated Ohio University Theatre School. In the 1970s, he lived with author Edmund White in New York City, and appeared as Alan Strang in ""Equus"" on Broadway opposite Richard Burton. He directs theater productions, and is particularly known for his direction of Off-Off-Broadway comedies penned by avant garde playwright Jim Neu. McDermott appeared in the Hollywood movie ""Without a Trace"", as well as in"
"Gerry Sundquist Gerry Sundquist (6 October 1955 – 1 August 1993) was an English actor. Sundquist was born in Manchester. He appeared in various film & television roles during the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably ""Soldier & Me"", ""The Mallens"" and ""The Siege of Golden Hill"", with guest appearances on shows such as """" alongside acting luminaries Martin Landau and fellow guest star Patrick Troughton. He appeared as Alan Strang in ""Equus"" at the Albery theatre in the mid-1970s. His films included ""The Black Panther"" (1977), ""Meetings with Remarkable Men"" (1979), ""Passion Flower Hotel"" (1978), aka ""Boarding School"", playing"
"Alun Armstrong Alan Armstrong (born 17 July 1946), known professionally as Alun Armstrong, is an English actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, ""the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic"". His numerous credits include several different Charles Dickens adaptations and the eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in ""New Tricks"". Armstrong is also an accomplished stage"
"Alan Young Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British–American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio and television host/personality who ""TV Guide"" called ""the Charlie Chaplin of television"". He was best known for his role as gentle Wilbur Post in the television comedy series, ""Mister Ed"" (1961–1966). Young was also the voice of Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over thirty years, first in the Academy Award-nominated short film ""Mickey's Christmas Carol"" (1983) and in various other films, TV series and video games until his death. During the 1940s and 1950s, he starred in his"
"of GQ's 50 best dressed British men in 2015. Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born Aaron Perry Johnson; 13 June 1990) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the titular character in the ""Kick-Ass"" films, as well as Robbie from ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He has also played Quicksilver in """" (2015). Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as ""Shanghai Knights"" (2003), playing a young Charlie Chaplin, ""The Illusionist"" (2006) and ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic ""Nowhere Boy"" (2009). He"
"Equus (film) Equus is a 1977 British-U.S. drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter. The story concerns a psychiatrist treating a teenager who has blinded horses in a stable, attempting to find the root of his horse worship. Lumet's translation of the acclaimed play to a cinematic version incorporated some realism, in the use of real horses as opposed to human actors, and a graphic portrayal of the blinding. Despite some criticism"
"Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born Aaron Perry Johnson; 13 June 1990) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the titular character in the ""Kick-Ass"" films, as well as Robbie from ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He has also played Quicksilver in """" (2015). Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as ""Shanghai Knights"" (2003), playing a young Charlie Chaplin, ""The Illusionist"" (2006) and ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic ""Nowhere Boy"" (2009). He went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stone-directed"
"30 films, including: His main leading role in theater was as Bilbo Baggins in an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"" at the Fortune Theatre in London, England from 1986 to 1989. From 2000 to the present, he is a regular in panto productions of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". His other theater roles include: Malcolm Dixon (actor) Malcolm Dixon (born 1953) is an English-born actor best known as Strutter in the 1981 movie ""Time Bandits"". He has had many roles that take advantage of his 4'1"" size, such as Ewoks and dwarfs. Before becoming an actor, Dixon worked"
"the Hollywood movie ""San Andreas"" (2015) as Ollie, a ten-year-old boy caught up in a massive earthquake in California. Art Parkinson Art Parkinson (born 19 October 2001) is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster. He began his professional acting career at the age of seven. He is best known for his role as Rickon Stark on the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"", and Kubo in the film ""Kubo and the Two Strings"". Parkinson was raised in Moville, a seaside village on the Inishowen Peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. He is"
"Michael Higgins (actor) Michael Patrick Higgins Jr. (January 20, 1920 – November 5, 2008) was an American actor who appeared in film and on stage, and was best known for his role in the original Broadway production of ""Equus"". Higgins was born in Brooklyn on January 20, 1920, the son of Mary Katherine (née McGowan) and Michael Peter Higgins, a poet and grocer who worked in the insurance business. He made efforts as a teenager to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent, hoping for a future career in theater. His father gave him an early a love of Shakespeare. He"
"""An Ideal Husband"" (1992) and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (2004) saw notable revivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company and others have brought several Shakespeare and classic play revivals to the theatre in recent decades. The 2007 production of ""Equus"" attracted considerable press for the nude appearance of 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe, who was still filming the ""Harry Potter"" films. The production was successful enough to transfer to Broadway and ran to 2009 there. Musicals returned in 2009 with a transfer of ""Avenue Q"", and then a transfer from Broadway of ""Hair"" the next year, followed by the West End"
"Hodge as Jill. Local controversy over the nude scene was largely mitigated by casting a married couple as Jill and Alan. This production went on to win Boarshead Theatre's annual awards for Best Production and Best Supporting Actor (Kropp). ""Equus"" was also presented in Baltimore in 1979 by the Lovegrove Alley Theatre. The production starred a pre-Broadway Charles S. Dutton in the role of Dysart. Director Brad Mays did double duty in the role of Alan Strang. A young actress named Lauren Raher played Jill Mason, and her real-life mother Rhona Raher portrayed Dora, Alan's mother. ""Equus"" was revived in"
"Jacob Kogan Jacob Pavlovich Kogan (born May 28, 1995) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 2007 psychological thriller ""Joshua"" and as the young Spock in J. J. Abrams' ""Star Trek"". Kogan was born in New York City to author and photographer Deborah Copaken Kogan and Russian-born child actor Paul Kogan. Paul emigrated from Moscow, Russia (then in the Soviet Union). Kogan has two younger siblings; a sister, Sasha (born March 1997) and a brother, Leo (born May 2006). His mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania and"
"School in Bradford. He was a leading child actor by the middle of 1970, having starred in the first series of ""The Flaxton Boys"" as Archie Weekes and in the series ""Here Come the Double Deckers"", which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang. In July 1973, Firth appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play ""Equus"" as a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as"
"by critics and audiences alike. Broadway World called the production 'dark, daunting and sensual' and commending its 'stellar cast'. Houston Press said it was 'astonishingly good... a must see' while Culturemap listed the show as one of the hottest shows of the year. Equus (play) Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write ""Equus"" when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near"
"(1969), ""Loving Memory"" (1971), ""Dark Places"" (1973), ""Jabberwocky"" (1977), ""Crossed Swords"" (1977), ""Raise the Titanic"" (1980), ""The Elephant Man"" (1980) and ""The Company of Wolves"" (1984). Roy Evans (actor) Roy Evans (born 1930), is an actor who has appeared in British Television from 1960s onwards, appearing in a wide range of productions including ""Doctor Who"" (""The Daleks' Master Plan"" as Trantis, ""The Green Death"" as Bert and ""The Monster of Peladon"" as a miner), ""Blake's 7"" (""Redemption"" as a Slave), ""Porterhouse Blue"" (as Arthur), ""Only Fools and Horses"" (""The Jolly Boy's Outing"" as Harry the coach driver), as well as"
"later years in Woodland Hills, California, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a retirement community, where he died of natural causes on May 19, 2016, at the age of 96. Alan Young Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British–American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio and television host/personality who ""TV Guide"" called ""the Charlie Chaplin of television"". He was best known for his role as gentle Wilbur Post in the television comedy series, ""Mister Ed"" (1961–1966). Young was also the voice of Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over thirty"
"all and is a jealous god, he blinded the horses. Martin is left troubled by the fact that he can treat Alan to take away his pain but in the process will deprive the boy of his passion, leaving him as emotionally neutered as Martin himself. Director Sidney Lumet saw the play ""Equus"" when it was first performed in London between 1973 and 1975, and also saw productions with Anthony Perkins and Richard Burton. Lumet found that Perkins' performance was excellent, but felt the stage productions failed to capture the conflict of the character Martin Dysart, which he believed was"
"to write stage plays, becoming writer-in-residence for the National Theatre at the age of 24, but he became increasingly interested in the medium of television, with ""Stronger Than the Sun"" (1977 – BBC1 ""Play for Today""), ""Bloody Kids"" (1980 – ATV) directed by Stephen Frears, ""Caught on a Train"" (1980 – BBC2 ""Playhouse"") starring Peggy Ashcroft, and "" Soft Targets"" (1982 – ""Play for Today""). There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays ""Hitting Town"" (1976 – Thames Television/ITV ""Plays for Britain"") and "" City Sugar"" (1978 – Scottish Television / ITV ""The Sunday Drama""). These two plays were"
"Sean Maguire Sean Maguire (born 18 April 1976 in Ilford, London) is an English actor and singer, who rose to fame in 1988 when at the age of eleven he took on the role of ""Tegs"" Ratcliffe on the BBC children's drama ""Grange Hill"", in which he remained until 1992. For a short time after leaving ""Grange Hill"", he played Aidan Brosnan in ""EastEnders"". Maguire has appeared in several feature films and had moderate success as a singer. He is known in the US for his roles as Donovan Brink on the UPN sitcom ""Eve"", and as Kyle Lendo in"
"Joshua McGuire Joshua McGuire (born 1987) is an English television, film and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Angus in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series ""Lovesick"" (previously known as ""Scrotal Recall""). He starred opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the critically acclaimed production of ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"" at The Old Vic. He will play Briar Cudgeon in ""Artemis Fowl"". McGuire was born in 1987 and brought up in the town of Warwick in Warwickshire. McGuire was educated at Warwick School, a boarding and day independent school for boys in his home town of Warwick in"
"Colin Hanks Colin Lewes Hanks (born Colin Lewes Dillingham; November 24, 1977) is an American actor, director and producer. He is known for starring as characters in films such as Shaun Brumder in ""Orange County"", Preston in ""King Kong"", Oliver in ""The House Bunny"", and Troy Gable in ""The Great Buck Howard"". His television roles include Alex Whitman in ""Roswell"", Hank Jones in ""Band of Brothers"", Travis Marshall in ""Dexter"", officer Gus Grimly in ""Fargo"", Jack Bailey in ""The Good Guys"", and Greg Short in ""Life in Pieces"". He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks. In the ""Talking"
"which Alan Young was hired to voice Scrooge McDuck playing the character who inspired his name, Ebenezer Scrooge (Thompson had died in 1971). Young, who himself was born in Great Britain, was best known for playing Wilbur Post on the hit television series ""Mister Ed"" from 1961 to 1965. Eight years later, the Walt Disney Animation Studios decided to make a featurette of this same story, this time dubbed ""Mickey's Christmas Carol"" (1983), and once again hired Young to voice the role. He also appeared as himself in the television special ""Sport Goofy in Soccermania"" (1987) (the only time when"
"cast a ""brilliant actor"" with a strong screen presence. They discussed casting Rupert Penry-Jones for the role of Adam Carter early in the process, though it took months to finally decide to cast him. Though Penry-Jones was aware of ""Spooks"" and its success, he had never seen any episodes. To be interested in the role, he spent a weekend catching up on the entire first and second series. He did not take long to decide, since his last leading role was four years previously, in 2000 in the Channel 4 drama ""North Square"". Adam was originally meant to be older,"
"BTF include Alan Strang in ""Equus"" (2005), the title role in ""Amadeus"" (2006), Bill Bibbit in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (2007), Frank Gardner in ""Mrs. Warren's Profession"" (2007), Lucky in ""Waiting for Godot"" (2008), Osvald Alving in ""Ghosts"" (2009), Nagg in ""Endgame"" (2010), and the title character in ""The Who's ""Tommy"""" (2011). Other regional theatre credits include Lysander/Thisbe/Cobweb in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", presented in spring 2006 by the SITI Company (where Harrison has studied extensively through Skidmore College and in Manhattan); Tom in the Guthrie Theater's production of ""The Glass Menagerie"""
"Charlie Callas Charlie Callas (born Charles Callias; December 20, 1924 – January 27, 2011) was an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin, and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s. He was also known for his role as Malcolm Argos, the restaurant owner and former con man, on the Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner television series ""Switch"" (1975–1978). Callas was also known as the voice of Elliott the dragon in Disney's live-action/animated musical film ""Pete's Dragon"" (1977). Callas was born in Brooklyn, New York,"
"released in December 2016. Robert Glenister Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor known for his roles as con man Ash ""Three Socks"" Morgan in the BBC television series ""Hustle"" and Nicholas Blake in the BBC spy drama ""Spooks"". Glenister made his first television appearance in the sitcom ""Sink or Swim"" in 1980. He has also appeared in shows such as ""Soldier Soldier, "" ""Doctor Who"" (in the serial ""The Caves of Androzani"", opposite his ""Sink or Swim"" co-star Peter Davison), ""Only Fools and Horses"" (as Myles the millionaire garden centre owner and"
"Art Parkinson Art Parkinson (born 19 October 2001) is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster. He began his professional acting career at the age of seven. He is best known for his role as Rickon Stark on the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"", and Kubo in the film ""Kubo and the Two Strings"". Parkinson was raised in Moville, a seaside village on the Inishowen Peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. He is bilingual, having been educated at an Irish language school. His English mother, Movania, is an actress who also runs"
"Alex Lanipekun Alex Lanipekun (born 7 April 1981) is a British actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but left early to join the cast of the BBC drama ""Spooks"" as journalist-cum-spy Ben Kaplan, the role for which he is best known. Lanipekun was born in London, during the 1981 Brixton riot. His father is Nigerian and his mother is of half Italian and half English descent. When he was four, his parents separated and he moved from Brixton to Finsbury Park. An only child, he was raised in North London by his single mother, a secondary"
"produced as a large-format artist's book by the Old Stile Press, with images and an afterword by the British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, in 2009. ""Equus"" was revived in San Jose, California, in March 2011 at City Lights Theater Company. This production, featuring actors Sean Gilvary as Alan Strang and Steve Lambert as Martin Dysart, received rave reviews. ""The Mercury News"" labeled Gilvary and Lambert as ""haunting,"" stating Gilvary ""...exposing emotions and epidermis, rides bareback in every sense. He gradually manages to make a rather unattractive young creature seem not only sympathetic but redeemable while retaining his hostility and humanity."" Starkinsider"
"Alan Strang. His first major role as an adult was the title part in a BBC Television ""Play of the Month"" adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1976). The script was based on a stage adaptation by John Osborne, and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud. That same year saw the release of the World War I film ""Aces High"" which featured Firth as the inexperienced RFC pilot Lt. Stephen Croft. Firth played the lead role in the film adaptation of Henry Fielding's ""Joseph Andrews"" (1977). That same year he starred with Richard Burton in"