Tim Pigott-Smith Biography (1946-)

Born May 13, 1946, in Rugby, England; son of Harry Thomas (a journalist) andMargaret Muriel (maiden name, Goodman) Pigott-Smith; married Pamela Miles (anactress), April 30, 1972; children: Tom Edward. Addresses: Agent: Chris Harris, Peters Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34-43 Russell St., LondonWC2B 5HA, England.

Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director
Birth Details: May 13, 1946; Rugby, England

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
As You Like It, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Bristol, England, 1969
(London debut) Laertes and First Player, Hamlet, Cambridge Theatre, 1970
Much Ado about Nothing, Prospect Theatre, 1970-1971
Boswell's Johnson, Prospect Theatre, 1970-1971
Roman Plays, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1972 and 1975
(Broadway debut) Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadhurst Theatre, then Aldwych Theatre, London, both 1974
Tullus's lieutenant, Coriolanus, Royal Shakespeare Company, RoyalShakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1974
Mettullus Cimber and Dardanius, Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1974
Proculeius, Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company, RoyalShakespeare Theatre, 1974
Posthumous Leonatus, Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1974
Traps, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1977
Colin, Benefactors, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1984
Bengal Lancer (solo show), Leicester Theatre, Leicester, England,then Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, both 1985
Octavius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, National Theatre, London, 1986-1988
Henry Moule, Entertaining Strangers, National Theatre, London, 1986-1988
Leontes, Winter's Tale, National Theatre, London, 1986-1988
Iachimo, Cymbeline, National Theatre, London, 1986-1988
Trinculo, The Tempest, National Theatre, London, 1986-1988
Coming into Land, Royal National Theatre, London, 1987-1988
Brutus, Julius Caesar, Compass Theatre, Brighton, England, 1990
Salieri, Amadeus, Compass Theatre, 1991
Old Times, 1993
Rochester, Jane Eyre, Playhouse Theatre, London, 1994
Robert Ross, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, 1994
Retreat, Orange Tree Theatre, 1995
The Letter, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, 1995
Mary Stuart, Royal National Theatre, 1996
Heritage, Hampstead Theatre Club, London, 1997
Larry Slade, The Iceman Cometh, Almeida Theatre, London, 1998 thenOld Vic Theatre, London, later Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1999
Five Kinds of Science, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, 2000
Made stage debut as Snobby Price, Major Barbara, Bristol Old Vic Theatre; also appeared in The Alchemist and Saki--An Anthology.
Major Tours
Laertes, Hamlet, Prospect Theatre Company, British cities, 1970
Stage Director
Company, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, then Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1987
Royal Hunt of the Sun, Compass Theatre Company, 1989
Playing the Wife, Compass Theatre Company, 1992
Hamlet, Theatre at Regent's Park, 1994

Film Appearances
(Film debut) Major Stoppard, Aces High, Paramount, 1975
Tullius, The Day Christ Died, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
Peter, Richard's Things, Southern Pictures, 1980
Thallo, Clash of the Titans, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1981
Rose, Victory (also known as Escape to Victory), Paramount,1981
Father Joe Ryan, A State of Emergency (also known as Chain Reaction), Double "O" Associates, 1986
Tom Benn, The Remains of the Day, Columbia, 1993
Also appeared in the film Joseph Andrews.
Television Appearances
Series
Mr. Blenkinsop, Hannah, BBC (England), 1980
Struggle, 1983
Narrator, Battlefield, 1984
Chief Constable John Stafford, The Chief, 1989-1991
King Ferdinand, The True Adventures of Christopher Columbus, 1992
Narrator, Nightmares of Nature, 1995
Narrator, The Major Years, 1999
Miniseries
North and South, 1975
Arthur Llewelyn-Davis, The Lost Boys (also known as J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys), BBC, 1977
Brendan Bracken, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, BBC, 1982 then on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1982
Captain Ronald Merrick, The Jewel in the Crown, Granada (England),then on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1984
Peter De Savary, The Challenge, 1986
Voice, The Great War (also known as The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century), PBS, 1996
Movies
Dick Stavely, Eustace and Hilda, BBC, 1975
Gerald, Sweet William, ITV (England), 1979
Harvey Shancross, Fame Is the Spur, BBC, 1979
Captain Hardy, I Remember Nelson, ATV (England), 1980
Philippe, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (also known as Hunchback), CBS, 1982
Sir George Stubbs, Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly (also knownas Dead Man's Folly), CBS, 1986
Host, The Case of Sherlock Holmes, BBC2, 1987
Francis Crick, Double Helix (also known as Life Story and The Race for the Double Helix), BBC, then Arts and Entertainment, 1987
Major General Ford, Bloody Sunday, Granada/Channel 4 (England), 2001
Specials
Angelo, Measure for Measure (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: Measure for Measure), BBC, 1978 then PBS, 1979
Hotspur, Henry IV, Part I (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I), BBC, 1979 then PBS, 1980
School Play (also known as BBC2 Playhouse: School Play), BBC2, 1979
First player, Hamlet, BBC, rebroadcast on PBS, 1982
Masterpiece Theatre: Fifteen Years, PBS, 1986
Primo Levi: The Memory of Offense, PBS, 1994
Also appeared in No Mama No, ITV; and as Vasques, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Episodic
Captain Harker, "The Claws of Axos," Doctor Who, BBC, 1970
Marco, "The Masque of Mandragora," Doctor Who, BBC, 1976
Harry Winthrop, "Dead Letter," Danger UXB, 1979
Mark Yelland, "The End of Law," Kavanagh QC, 2001
Other
Glittering Prizes, 1975
Wings, 1976
Tullius, The Day Christ Died, 1980
Hubert, The Bullion Boys (also known as Screen One: The BullionBoys), 1993
Calcutta Chronicles (documentary), Channel 4, 1995
Innocents, 2000
Also appeared in Glittering Prizes, BBC; The Shadowy Third,BBS; and The Traitor, ITV.
WRITINGS
Out of India, Constable, 1986

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