George Innes
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| Alma mater | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Actor |
| Years active | 1963–present |
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George Innes (born 8 March 1938) is a British actor.
Stage career
Innes was born in Stepney, East London, and began his career with the National Theatre of Great Britain under Laurence Olivier. He trained at Toynbee Hall and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,[1][2] where he received the Shakespeare Cup for excellence. He later appeared in stage productions including The Dream of Peter Mann and other National Theatre performances. His final year of study and training was at the Bristol Old Vic School.[3] He worked with Dunlop again in The Pantomime at the Bristol Old Vic, before a season at Nottingham Playhouse with Dunlop and John Neville.[4]
Other theatre credits include working for Royal Court Theatre production company in Chips with Everything, which played in the West End and on Broadway.[5] He appeared in Othello (understudying Frank Finlay's Iago) with Olivier at the National Theatre at Chichester and The Old Vic. Other performances in this period include roles in Dutch Courtesan,[6] Mother Courage,[7] Hobson's Choice, and The Master Builder. At the National Theatre at South Bank, he appeared in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Bedroom Farce (directed by Peter Hall, transferring to the West End), and The Vortex at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, (with Bob Ackerman directing). In 1993–94 he appeared in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with Simon Curtis directing in Chicago, a production which appeared on Broadway. Returning to London, he performed at the Southwark Playhouse in Rosmersholm (1997) and Riders to the Sea (2005).
In 2009 he appeared off-Broadway in The Lodger at the Workshop Theatre (Harris Yulin directing). There he developed his one-man show called Tribute, based on the Ages of Man by Sir John Gielgud. It was also performed at The Players, a theatrical club in New York City. The show played during the August 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival to excellent reviews. In March 2010, he performed Tribute at the Barron's Court Pub Theatre in London, receiving these reviews: "... the whole show centres around a superb talent: not Gielgud's but that of George Innes. The veteran performer has a marvellously warming presence with a deep velvet voice that could make a line from Avenue Q sound profound ... Tribute really is a display of extraordinary talent."[citation needed] He performed the show at the Workshop Theatre in New York, touring westward to California.
Film career
Innes's film career includes:
- Billy Liar (1963, John Schlesinger)
- Charlie Bubbles (1968, Albert Finney)
- Before Winter Comes (1968, J. Lee Thompson)
- The Italian Job (1969, Peter Collinson)
- The Last Valley (1971, James Clavell)
- Gumshoe (1971, Stephen Frears)
- Pope Joan (1972, Michael Anderson)
- Diamonds on Wheels (1973, Jerome Courtland)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977, Richard Attenborough)
- Quadrophenia (1979, Franc Roddam)
- Shōgun (1980, Jerry London)
- Ivanhoe (1982, Douglas Camfield)
- Ordeal by Innocence (1984, Desmond Davis)
- Morons from Outer Space (1985, Mike Hodges).[8]
His recent films include:
- Shiner (2000, directed by John Irvin),
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001, directed by Stephen Whittaker),
- Last Orders (2001, directed by Fred Schepisi),
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, directed by Peter Weir),
- Things To Do Before You're 30 (2005, directed by Simon Shore),
- Stardust (2007, directed by Matthew Vaughn)
- Shekhar Kapur directed Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).[8]
Television career
Notable television appearances include:
- Upstairs, Downstairs[9]
- Minder
- Budgie
- Danger UXB[10]
- I, Claudius
- Open All Hours
- Rumpole of the Bailey[11]
- Hill Street Blues
- Magnum, P.I.
- MASH*
Filmography
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."S. LONDON DEBUT". South London Observer. 19 March 1959. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
Toynbee Theatre Club presented a pleasing and lusty production of Anouilh's "Thieves Carnival" at Duthy Hall, Southwark. ... The thieves ... GEORGE INNES
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.S, LG (24 March 1960). "'In Search of Happiness'". The Stage. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
THE first performance of Nina Froud's English version of Viktor Rozov's two-act comedy "In Search of Happiness" was presented at LAMDA on Saturday last under the direction of Frank Dunlop ... there was a splendidly full-blooded performance from George Innes as an uncouth farmer
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.S, A (27 April 1961). "Students give a promise for the future". Bristol Evening Post. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in "Chicken Soup with Barley" by Arnold Wesker ... George Innes, as Monty, roared and cussed with most enjoyable freedom
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NOTTINGHAM'S BEST FOR MANY SEASONS". The Stage. 23 November 1961. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
the Nottingham Playhouse production of "A Man For All Seasons" ... George Innes as Archbishop Cranmer
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Marriott, RB (3 May 1962). "'CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING' IS WESKER'S BEST". The Stage. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
Cannibal, Archie - George Innes
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.M, RB (16 July 1964). "'The Dutch Courtesan' at Chichester". The Stage. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Marriott, RB (20 May 1965). "'Mother Courage and Her Children' at the National Theatre". The Stage. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."George Innes". tvguide.com. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The cast of Upstairs, Downstairs". The Stage and Television Today. 4 March 1971. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lovelace, Jennifer (18 January 1979). "Television Today - Could be in danger of too much de-fusing - Reviews". The Stage. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
George Innes' expert cockney with the eye to the main chance and an inimitable way with a cigarette
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Major BBC coproduction one of a range of drama projects". The Stage. 12 August 1982. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
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