Robert Stephens Net Worth
Is$1 Million Robert Stephens Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) Was a Leading English...
Robert Stephens net worth is
Robert Stephens net worth is
$1 Million
Robert Stephens Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of Britain'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. | Full Name | Robert Stephens |
| Net Worth | $1 Million |
| Date Of Birth | July 14, 1931 |
| Died | November 12, 1995, London, United Kingdom |
| Place Of Birth | Bristol, England, UK |
| Height | 6' 1" (1.85 m) |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Patricia Quinn, Maggie Smith, Tarn Bassett, Nora Simmonds |
| Children | Toby Stephens, Chris Larkin, Lucy Dilon, Michael Stephens |
| Nicknames | Robert Stephens, Sir Robert Stephens, Stephens, Robert |
| IMDB | |
| Awards | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor |
| Nominations | Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Movies | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Romeo and Juliet, A Taste of Honey, Travels with My Aunt, The Duellists, Cleopatra, Empire of the Sun, The Asphyx, The Shout, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Henry V, The Fruit Machine, England, My England, Chaplin, The Bonfire of the ... |
| TV Shows | Fortunes of War, Dandelion Dead, The Box of Delights, Lizzie's Pictures, QB VII, Hell's Bells |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on Anthony Hopkins] He has all those stutters, scratches and coughs and mini-splutters; it's always the same and it's awful. He's a much better actor than that, but these days he always seems to be doing the same irritating, mannered thing. He's forever coughing and spitting and winking and blinking. |
| 2 | [on Dame Thora Hird] An extremely adroit, skillful actress--John Osborne's favorite actress, for what that's worth--with an extraordinary ability, rather like Maggie Smith, to twist on a sixpence from being terribly funny to terribly touching. She's a bit mawkish, sometimes, but a brilliant comedienne. The tops. |
| 3 | [on Laurence Harvey] An appalling man and even more unforgivably, an appalling actor. |
| 4 | [1993, to a journalist about to review his performance in "King Lear"] Enjoy the show, it gets funnier in the second half. |
| 5 | Film acting is difficult to do properly. I remember I once said to George Cukor that I think it's as difficult to be Spencer Tracy as it is to be Laurence Olivier. He said, "Wrong, it's much more difficult to be Spencer Tracy". |
| 6 | [on Tony Richardson] He convinced me (wrongly of course) that anyone can make a movie. All Tony Richardson ever did was come in and ask his cameraman what he should do . . . He was a useless, unpleasant creature. |
| 7 | [on comedian Sonnie Hale] A gross, unfunny person offstage and someone, on the whole, to avoid. |
| 8 | One reason I've never chased after films is that once you become a film star, you can't really stop, because you have to be before the public's eye all the time. I wouldn't care for that. Also, in films the material can't be that good all the time. You have to make mostly bad films, or films that aren't frightfully good. That wouldn't interest me - not that I've ever been offered that opportunity. |
| 9 | [on "Hamlet"] It is undoubtedly the greatest part ever written, but it's so complex. You can't really play it, you just give an opinion of it. |
| 10 | [on "The Method"] I once asked two old Russian actors about the Method, because I'd seen American actors in New York use their version of it and it was so awful, amateur and inept and stupid. And they said to me, "If you have a copy of ['Konstantin Stanislavski' 's] "My Life in Art" or "An Actor Prepares", just take it out and throw it in the river". If it was no use to them, it was certainly of no use to me. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ironic that in "Fortunes of War" (BBC- 1987), his character ("Castlebar," a famous poet) dies during surgery for a perforated intestine. |
| 2 | Considered for the roles of Fallanda, Bukosvky, Sir Percy and Dr. Armstrong in Lifeforce (1985). |
| 3 | Variety Club of Great Britain Stage Actor Award for 1965 for his performances at the National Theatre, notably in Royal Hunt of the Sun and Trelawney of the Wells. |
| 4 | Provided the voice of Aragorn in the acclaimed 1981 BBC Radio serialisation of The Lord of the Rings. |
| 5 | He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama. |
| 6 | Stepfather of Quinn Hawkins. |
| 7 | Father-in-law of Anna-Louise Plowman. |
| 8 | Appeared with his then-wife, Maggie Smith, in Much Ado About Nothing (1967), which was, at least, the second film based on a William Shakespeare play, featuring a real-life husband and wife, that was later remade with another real-life husband and wife. The Taming of the Shrew (1929) starred then-husband-and-wife, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, and was remade in 1967 with then-husband-and-wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The Taming of the Shrew (1967) was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, who also directed the stage "Much Ado" with Stephens and Smith which was adapted for television in the same year, with only one recorded change from the stage cast. The 1993 remake of "Much Ado" starred Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. Stephens worked jointly with Banagh and Thompson in Fortunes of War (1987) and Henry V (1989), while Smith worked with them both separately in the "Harry Potter" films. He and Smith also appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in (possibly separate) productions of "Othello", in which they played "Iago" and "Desdemonda", respectively. In the 1943 American production, those roles were played by then husband-and-wife José Ferrer and Uta Hagen. |
| 9 | Was nominated for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Epitaph for George Dillon." |
| 10 | He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1993 (1992 season) for Best Actor for his performance as Falstaff in "Henry IV, parts I & II" at the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
| 11 | One of eight actors profiled by Roger Lewis in his 1989 book, "Stage People": the interview with Stephens takes place in the Dirty Duck pub in Stratford-on-Avon. |
| 12 | Father of actors Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| England, My England | 1995 | John Dryden | |
| 99-1 | 1994-1995 | TV Series | Commander Oakwood |
| Without Walls | 1994 | TV Series documentary | John Barrymore |
| Minder | 1994 | TV Series | Percy |
| Dandelion Dead | 1994 | TV Mini-Series | Henry Vaughan |
| Century | 1993 | Mr. Reisner | |
| The Secret Rapture | 1993 | Max Lopert | |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Poe's Teacher | |
| The Vampyr: A Soap Opera | 1992 | TV Movie | Narrator |
| Chaplin | 1992 | Ted the Drunk | |
| Screen One | 1992 | TV Series | Reverend Irwine |
| Afraid of the Dark | 1991 | Dan Burns | |
| 30 Door Key | 1991 | Prof. Pimco | |
| The Pope Must Diet | 1991 | The Camarlengo | |
| The Storyteller: Greek Myths | 1991 | TV Mini-Series | Hades |
| Lorna Doone | 1990 | TV Movie | Sir Ensor Doone |
| The Children | 1990 | Azariah Dobree | |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | 1990 | Sir Gerald Moore | |
| Wings of Fame | 1990 | Merrick | |
| Stolen | 1990 | TV Series | Henry Allan |
| Henry V | 1989 | Auncient Pistol | |
| War and Remembrance | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | SS Maj. Karl Rahm |
| Testimony | 1988 | Vsevolod Meyerhold | |
| Blind Justice | 1988 | TV Mini-Series | Freddie Hunter |
| Ada dans la jungle | 1988 | Lord Gordon | |
| The Fruit Machine | 1988 | Vincent | |
| American Roulette | 1988 | Screech | |
| Inspector Morse | 1988 | TV Series | Sir Wilfred Mulryne |
| Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Mr. Lockwood | |
| Fortunes of War | 1987 | TV Mini-Series | Castlebar |
| High Season | 1987 | Konstantinis | |
| Lizzie's Pictures | 1987 | TV Mini-Series | Jack Dickinson |
| Unnatural Causes | 1986 | TV Series | Vince |
| Hell's Bells | 1986 | TV Series | Bishop Godfrey Hethercote |
| Comrades | 1986 | Frampton | |
| By the Sword Divided | 1985 | TV Series | Sir Ralph Winter |
| Puccini | 1984 | TV Movie | Giacomo Puccini |
| The Box of Delights | 1984 | TV Series | Abner Brown |
| Ill Fares the Land | 1983 | ||
| Birth of a Nation | 1983 | TV Movie | Vic Griffiths |
| Studio | 1983 | TV Series | Lyndsay |
| Anyone for Denis? | 1982 | TV Movie | Schubert |
| The Tractor Factor | 1982 | Short | |
| The Year of the French | 1982 | TV Mini-Series | George Moore |
| Celebrity Playhouse | 1981 | TV Series | Charles Appleby |
| The Games of Countess Dolingen | 1981 | Le professeur | |
| The Search for Alexander the Great | 1981 | TV Mini-Series | Darius |
| The Winter's Tale | 1981 | TV Movie | Polixenes |
| The Double Dealer | 1980 | TV Movie | Maskwell |
| Lady Killers | 1980 | TV Series | Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C. |
| A Question of Guilt | 1980 | TV Series | Edward Clarke QC |
| Play for Today | 1980 | TV Series | Beust |
| ITV Playhouse | 1968-1980 | TV Series | Professor Rex Thornton / James Woodley / Bryan Baker / ... |
| BBC2 Playhouse | 1980 | TV Series | Warburton |
| Suez 1956 | 1979 | TV Movie | President Nasser |
| One Fine Day | 1979 | TV Movie | Welby |
| The Voyage of Charles Darwin | 1978 | TV Series | Samuel Wilberforce |
| BBC Play of the Month | 1968-1978 | TV Series | Prince of Wales Grigory Rasputin Oberon ... |
| The Shout | 1978 | Chief Medical Officer | |
| Holocaust | 1978 | TV Mini-Series | Uncle Kurt Dorf |
| Eustace and Hilda | 1977 | TV Series | Jasper Bentwich |
| La nuit, tous les chats sont gris | 1977 | Charles Watson | |
| The Duellists | 1977 | Gen. Treillard | |
| Softly Softly: Task Force | 1976 | TV Series | Colonel Rawlings |
| Gangsters | 1976 | TV Series | Sir George Jeavons |
| Late Night Drama | 1974 | TV Series | The host |
| QB VII | 1974 | TV Mini-Series | Robert Highsmith |
| Luther | 1974 | Johan Von Eck | |
| Vienna 1900 | 1973-1974 | TV Mini-Series | Dr. Graesler |
| Travels with My Aunt | 1972 | Ercole Visconti | |
| The Asphyx | 1972 | Sir Hugo Cunningham | |
| The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | 1971 | TV Series | Max Carrados |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | 1970 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969 | Teddy Lloyd | |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | The Prince | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1967 | TV Movie | Benedick |
| ITV Play of the Week | 1958-1966 | TV Series | Frederick Cornelius Christian Leonard Timbrell |
| Armchair Theatre | 1966 | TV Series | Bernie |
| Theatre 625 | 1966 | TV Series | Trigorin / Stephen |
| Morgan! | 1966 | Charles Napier | |
| First Night | 1964 | TV Series | Arnold Claybill |
| Channing | 1964 | TV Series | Paddy Riordan |
| Cleopatra | 1963 | Germanicus | |
| BBC Sunday-Night Play | 1963 | TV Mini-Series | Bob Saunders / Walter Purkiss |
| The Small World of Sammy Lee | 1963 | Gerry Sullivan | |
| Lisa | 1962 | Dickens | |
| Lunch Hour | 1961 | Man | |
| The Queen's Guards | 1961 | Henry Wynne-Walton | |
| Pirates of Tortuga | 1961 | Henry Morgan | |
| A Taste of Honey | 1961 | Peter Smith | |
| Circle of Deception | 1960 | Capt. Stein | |
| ITV Television Playhouse | 1960 | TV Series | Frank Rush |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | 1959 | TV Series | |
| Nom-de-Plume | 1956 | TV Series | John |
| War and Peace | 1956 | Officer Talking with Natasha (uncredited) |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1967 | TV Movie producer |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Is Your Life | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Omnibus | 1981 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Billy Wilder | 1970 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 24th Annual Tony Awards | 1970 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Neues aus der Welt des Films | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Ten Days That Shook the World | 1967 | TV Movie documentary | Lenin (voice) |