John Moffatt (actor)

John Moffatt (b. 24 September 1922, Badby, Daventry, England) is an English actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot in BBC Radio productions of Agatha Christie's detective stories.

John Moffatt made his first appearance on stage in 1944, and was a member of repertory companies which included Perth, Oxford, Windsor and the Bristol Old Vic.

He made his first London appearance in 1950, appeared with John Gielgud in "The Winter's Tale" in 1951 and in "Much Ado About Nothing" in 1952, and with his idol Noel Coward in "The Apple Cart" in 1953.

He has played with the Old Vic Company, at the Mermaid Theatre, and in New York, as well as in the London West End. For the National Theatre his parts included Judge Brack in "Hedda Gabler" and Menenius in "Coriolanus".

He has written pantomimes, and appeared in them as the Dame, one of his favourite roles.

He acted and sang in "Cowardy Custard", the tribute to Noel Coward that was running at the time of Coward's death.

elected filmography

*1987 Prick Up Your Ears as Wigmaker
*1981 Private Schulz as Kaltenbrunner
*1979 S.O.S. Titanic as Benjamin Guggenheim
*1974 Murder on the Orient Express as Chief Attendant
*1974 Romance with a Double Bass as Major Domo
*1972 Lady Caroline Lamb as Murray
*1970 Julius Caesar as Popilius Lena
*1963 Tom Jones as Square
*1958 The Silent Enemy as Driver Volunteer
*1958 A Night to Remember (film) as Benjamin Guggenheim
*1956 Loser Takes All as Barman

John Moffatt made his television debut in 1953,and has made appeared many times on screen over the decades. He played Joseph Surface in "The School For Scandal" (with Joan Plowright), Casca in "Julius Caesar", Malvolio and Sir Andrew in two different productions of "Twelfth Night" - and Ben in R.F.Delderfield's prequel to Stevenson, "The Adventures of Ben Gunn".

He first broadcast in 1950 in "Mrs Dale's Diary", and became a microphone regular - parts including (apart from Poirot) both Holmes and Watson in various versions, Oswald to John Gielgud's King Lear, Lord Chief Justice to Timothy West's Falstaff and Quilp in "The Old Curiosity Shop". In the nineteen-eighties he was a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company.

External links

*imdb name|0595602|name=John MoffattJohn Moffatt agent website entry [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/moffatj/a-act.html]