Robert Longden (actor)
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Robert Longden (born 1951) is a British composer, librettist, director and film, stage and television actor whose career has spanned four decades.
Longden attended The King's School in his native Macclesfield before receiving a scholarship to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (1969 to 1974) where he was awarded the Diploma of Speech and Drama and the John Gielgud Award for comedy. Longden's theatre career started with the Royal Shakespeare Company before taking over the role of Riff Raff from Richard O'Brien in the original production of The Rocky Horror Show in 1975 aged 24.[1][2][3]
Theatre roles include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for the Young Vic; In the Boom Boom Room for American Repertory Theater; Cholly in Major Barbara for the Chichester Festival Theatre; he created the role of 'Mum' in the original production of Berkoff's East (1975) for the London Theatre Group with Berkoff in the cast;[1] Earl Williams in Windy City (1982); Me and My Girl with Robert Lindsay (1984); Hilary Maddox-Brown in Outside Broadcast by Peter Woodward with David Tomlinson for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Cardinal in the musical Casanova (2008) at the Greenwich Playhouse.[4]
Longden wrote the music and words for the musical Moby Dick with Hereward Kaye. He also wrote Pretty for the People and the musical The Fly based on the 1958 film of the same name.
Television roles include Ginger Higgins in The Fenn Street Gang (1973); Hablot Knight Browne in Dickens of London (1976); Mr Willard in Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978); Sapper Copping in Danger UXB (1979); Jeremy Delf in Agony (1980); appeared as a regular in the series Wood and Walters (1982); Stephen Mowat in Cloud Howe (1982); Mr Pasco in The Gentle Touch (1983); Mr Pitt in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1984 to 1988); Boniface in Boon (1989); Professor Whitman in Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990); Dr. Louis Werner in Selling Hitler (1991); Flossie in The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); Freddie in Down to Earth (2005); Mr Weston in Torchwood (2006); Adrian Hammill in Blue Murder (2006); Martin Greenwood in Casualty (2007) and Walter Hickling Doctors (2008).[3]
Film work includes Heavenly Bliss in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973); Apprentice in Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974); Second Roadblock Policeman in The Stick Up (1977); Pettelson in Agatha (1979); Badger Beadon in Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1980; Tape Operator in Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) and Vicar in Night Train to Murder with Morecambe and Wise (1985).
Partial filmography
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) - Heavenly Bliss
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) - Apprentice
- Escort Girls (1974)
- Never Too Young to Rock (1976)
- The Stick Up (1977) - Second Roadblock Policeman
- Agatha (1979) - Pettelson
- Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) - Tape Operator
- Decadence (1994) - The Entourage #5
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- English male film actors
- People from Macclesfield
- Royal Shakespeare Company members
- English male Shakespearean actors
- English musical theatre librettists
- English male composers
- English theatre directors
- English musical theatre directors