Philip Voss
Philip Voss | |
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Born | Philip James Voss (1936年08月20日)20 August 1936 Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
Died | 13 November 2020(2020年11月13日) (aged 84) Watford, Hertfordshire, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1963–2016 |
Partner | John Peacock (died 2017) |
Philip James Voss (20 August 1936 – 13 November 2020) was a British stage, radio, film and television actor.
Early life
[edit ]Voss was born in Leicester, the elder son of James Voss, a pharmacist, and his wife, Viola (née Walmsley). He had a younger brother, John. When he and his family moved to the village of Wollaton, near Nottingham, he attended Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School. He joined a local amateur theatre and, after national service with the RAF, trained for the stage at RADA.
Career
[edit ]Voss played roles in the Doctor Who serials Marco Polo and The Dominators ,[1] Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, the 1981 Lord of the Rings radio series,[2] Indian Summer, an RSC 1996 revival of The White Devil , The Brides in the Bath , two plays in the Arkangel Shakespeare and a small role in an audio dramatisation of an Anton Chekhov short story.[3] He also played recurring roles in the TV series Fish as Ivan Vishnevski and Vicious as Ian McKellen's cynical brother Mason Thornhill.
Other credits include a stint at the London Shakespeare Workout, two roles for the Shared Experience Company (in Three Sisters and The Seagull ), and playing Serebryakov in a West End rendition of Anton Chekhov's The Wood Daemon. At the RSC during the 1990s, he played Menenius in Coriolanus , Sir Epicure Mammon in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist , Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida , Malvolio in Twelfth Night , Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , and Prospero in The Tempest .
Personal life and death
[edit ]From the 1970s onwards, Voss lived in Bushey, Hertfordshire, with his partner, writer John Peacock. They entered into a civil partnership in 2006, and remained together until Peacock’s death in 2017. Voss died from cancer and complications of COVID-19 in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 13 November 2020, aged 84. He was survived by his brother.[4]
Filmography
[edit ]Film
[edit ]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1974 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Ernst | |
1980 | Hopscotch | Helicopter Pilot | Wrong Philip Voss |
1983 | Octopussy | Auctioneer | |
1986 | Lady Jane | Herald | |
Clockwise | Headmaster #9 | ||
1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Colonel Rigby | |
1992 | Northern Crescent | Education Chief | |
1993 | The Secret Rapture | Civil Servant | |
1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Laura's Father - Wedding One | |
1996 | Indian Summer | Duncan | |
2013 | About Time | Theatre Judge |
Television
[edit ]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1963 | Suspense | Randolph Yerbray | Season 2, episode 31: "The White Hot Coal" |
Maupassant | Belloncle | Season 1, episode 10: "Bachelors" | |
1964 | No Hiding Place | Jaroslav Konowski | Season 6, episode 2: "Who Takes the Blame?" |
1964
1968 |
Doctor Who | Acomat
Wahed |
Season 1: "Marco Polo" (3 episodes)
Season 6, episode 1: "The Dominators: episode 1" |
1965 | Out of the Unknown | Police Officer | Season 1, episode 5: "Time in Advance" |
1967 | Theatre 625 | Piotr Ollendorf | Season 4, episode 15 "Hotel Torpe" |
1968 | Virgin of the Secret Service | Captain Nigel Bratby | Season 1, episode 6: |"The Rajah and the Suffragette" |
1970 | The Troubleshooters | Bosun | Season 6, episode 1: "The Slick and the Dread" |
1971 | Elizabeth R | King Richard | TV mini-series |
1972 | Crime of Passion | Chief Inspector Marsan | Season 3, episode 11: "Baptiste" |
1974 | Dial M for Murder | Inspector | Season 1, episode 13: "Recording Angel" |
Melissa | Detective Chief Inspector Carter | Season 1: (3 episodes) | |
1975 | Raffles | Albany Manager | Season 1, episode 1: "The Amateur Cracksman" |
1977 | Jubilee | Newsreader | Season 1, episode 4: "Nanny's Boy" |
1978 | Lillie | Edward Carson | Season 1, episode 11: "Mr. Jersey" |
1980 | Crossroads | Raymond Hilier | Season 1, episode 3254 |
Spy! | Solms | Season 1, episode 5: "The Venlo Incident" | |
Ladykillers | Auguste de Mean | Season 1, episode 6: "Miss Madeleine Smith" | |
Escape | Unknown | Season 1, episode 2: "Hijack to Mogadishu" | |
1983 | Pig in the Middle | Police Inspector | Season 3: (2 episodes) |
Goodnight and God Bless | George | Season 1, episode 3: "Did You Hear the One About?" | |
1985 | C.A.T.S. Eyes | Mr. Jenkins | Season 1, episode 11: "Fingers" |
Shine on Harvey Moon | Vicar | Season 4, episode 2: "Anything Goes" | |
Me and the Girls | Professor Lembach | TV movie | |
1986 | Murrow | Censor | TV movie |
1987 | Inspector Morse | Coroner | Season 1: (2 episodes) |
Floodtide | Vicar | TV mini-series | |
1994 | The Dwelling Place | Cunnimgham | Season 1: (3 episodes) |
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Shepard
Judge |
Season 2, episode 5: "The Winter's Tale" | |
1995 | A Village Affair | Richard Jordan | TV movie |
Boon | Jeremy Walters | Season 7, episode 14: "Thieves Like Us" | |
1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Lord Potiphar
Judge |
Season 1, episode 7: "Joseph" |
A Royal Scandal | Sir Robert Gifford | TV movie | |
1999 | Where the Heart Is | Gerald Webster | Season 3, episode 14: "The Letter" |
Let Them Eat Cake | Physician | Season 1, episode 1: "The Pox" | |
2000 | In Motion | Narrator | TV short |
Fish | Ivan Vishnevski | Season 1: (6 episodes) | |
Trial & Retribution | Lord Justice Henry Bradpiece | Season 4, episode 2 | |
North Square | Judge Christopher Darling | Season 1, episode 1 | |
Second Sight: Hide and Seek | David Ingham | TV movie | |
2002 | Dinotopia | Cortez | Season 1, episode 3: "Handful of Dust" |
2003 | The Brides in the Bath | Mr. Justice Scrutton | TV movie |
2011 | Law & Order: UK | Justice Reynolds | Season 6, episode 5: "Line Up" |
2013–2016 | Vicious | Mason Thornhill | Season 1: (4 episodes) / Season 2: (6 episodes) |
Theatre
[edit ]- Ivanov as Shabelsky, Director Trevor Nunn, National Theatre
- Love's Labour Lost as Boyet, Director Trevor Nunn, National Theatre
- As You Like It as Jaques, Director Peter Hall, Theatre Royal Bath/USA
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun as Miguel Estete, National Theatre
- Uncle Vanya as Alexandr Vladmiirovich Serebryakov, Director Hugh Fraser, Wilton's Music Hall
- The Giant as Lodovico/Soderini, Director Gregory Doran, Hampstead Theatre
- The Circle as Lord Porteous, Director Joanthan Church, Chichester Festival Theatre
- Apologia as Hugh, Director Josie Rourke, Bush Theatre
- Canary (2010) as Older Tom, Director Hettie MacDonald, Liverpool Everyman
Radio
[edit ]- Aspects of Love as Sir George, BBC Radio
- The Lord of the Rings as the Lord of the Nazgûl, BBC Radio
- Tulips in Winter as Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel, BBC Radio
References
[edit ]- ^ Doctor Who BBC Home. Retrieved March 2011
- ^ Philip Voss naxos.com. Retrieved March 201
- ^ The Black Monk BBC Radio 4. Retrieved March 2011
- ^ Coveney, Michael (20 November 2020). "Philip Voss obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
External links
[edit ]- Philip Voss home Page
- Philip Voss at IMDb
- Philip Voss discography at Discogs
- 1936 births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century English male actors
- 21st-century English male actors
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- English gay actors
- Deaths from cancer in England
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
- English male film actors
- English male radio actors
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- People educated at Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School
- Actors from Bushey
- Male actors from Leicester
- Royal Shakespeare Company members
- 20th-century English LGBTQ people
- 21st-century English LGBTQ people
- Male actors from Hertfordshire
- Male actors from Nottingham