Robin Phillips

Infobox actor
name = Robin Phillips


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birthdate = birth date and age|1942|02|28
location = Haslemere, Surrey, England
occupation = Actor, film director

Robin Phillips (February 28, 1942) is an English actor and director.

Phillips was born in Haslemere, Surrey, the son of EllenAnne (née Barfoot) and James William Phillips. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/40/Robin-Phillips.html Robin Phillips Biography (1942-) ] ] He trained at the Bristol Old Vic and worked as an actor and director for many years in the United Kingdom, finishing as Artistic Director at the Greenwich Theatre from 1973 to 1975. He was hired as Artistic Director at the Stratford Festival in 1975, where he spent six seasons directing many landmark productions and cultivating new talent. Actors Maggie Smith, Richard Monette, Martha Henry, Brian Bedford and many others were prominently featured during his tenure, and many of his Shakespearean, classical, and contemporary productions won widespread acclaim. [ [http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Robin%20Phillips Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia ] ] [Maurice Good. Every inch a Lear: a rehearsal journal of "King Lear" with Peter Ustinov and the Stratford Festival Company directed by Robin Phillips. Sono Nis Press, 1982. ISBN 9780919203266]

When he resigned from Stratford during the 1980 season, exhaustion was cited as the primary reason for his departure. [Martin Knelman, A Stratford Tempest. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982, 240 p. ISBN 9780771045424] He later would become Artistic Director at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and return to Stratford to direct the Young Company in 1987 and 1988. He was also Director General at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton from 1990 to 1995.

In more recent years, Phillips directed a musical version of Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway in 1997, Long Days Journey into Night in London's West End in 2000, and a stage version of Larry's Party at Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre in 2001.

Credits

*"Candidate for Murder" (1961) TV Episode
*"Doctor Who" "The Keys of Marinus"
*"The Saint" (1 episode, 1965)
*"The Avengers" (1 episode, 1966)
*"The Forsyte Saga" (1967)
*"Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher "(1968)
*"David Copperfield " (1969) (TV)
*"Two Gentlemen Sharing" (1969)
*"Estate con sentimento, Un" (1970)
*"Tales from the Crypt" (1972)

Director

*"Miss Julie" (1971)
*"The Wars" (1983)

References

External links

*imdb|0680737
*ibdb|15875
* [http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/AS_IT_HAPPENS/20070627.shtml Radio interview with Phillips in 2007 following the death of William Hutt]