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Rupert Frazer

British actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor.[1]

Career

His work in theatre includes performances at the Citizens Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre.[2] In 1975, he played the title role in the first British stage production of Seneca's Thyestes.[3] Other theatre roles include Ferdinand in The Tempest and Tamburlaine.[4][5][6]

He appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi in 1982.[7] In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (Christian Bale).[8][9]

Other roles include Philip Castallack in Penmarric (1979),[10][11] Muller in Eye of the Needle (1981), Lionel Stephens in The Shooting Party (1985),[12] Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in a 1986 tv-production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest,[13] Alan Desland in The Girl in a Swing (1988),[14][15] Lord Alexander Montford in The House of Eliott[16] and Neville Chamberlain in Downton Abbey.[17]

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Personal life

Frazer is married with three children.[18]

References

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