Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England'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. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes.
He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin.
Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted.
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Known for
BBC Play of the Month
Mark Antony
BBC Play of the Month
Grigory Rasputin
Minder
Percy
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Inspector Morse
Sir Wilfred Mulryne
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Cleopatra
Germanicus
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Max Carrados
Romeo and Juliet
the Prince
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Sir Gerald Moore
Empire of the Sun
Mr. Lockwood
Channing
Paddy Riordan
Fortunes of War
Bill Castlebar
Lady Killers
Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C.
The Box of Delights
Abner Brown
The Shout
Chief Medical Officer
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Hades
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
A Taste of Honey
Peter Smith
Chaplin
Ted the Drunk
The Pope Must Die
The Camarlengo
Holocaust
Uncle Kurt Dorf
The Year of the French
George Moore
The Fruit Machine
Vincent
The Winter's Tale
Polixenes
99-1
Oakwood
Comrades
James Frampton
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Afraid of the Dark
Dan Burns
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Teddy Lloyd
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Poe's Teacher
Henry V
Auncient Pistol
Unnatural Causes
Vince
The Duellists
Brigadier-General Treillard
High Season
Konstantinis
Birth of a Nation
Vic Griffiths
Travels with My Aunt
Ercole Visconti
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
One Fine Day
Welby
Lorna Doone
Sir Ensor Doone
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Gerry Sullivan
Century
Mr. Reisner
Luther
Johann von Eck
Lizzie's Pictures
The Asphyx
Sir Hugo Cunningham
England, My England
John Dryden
30 Door Key
Prof. Pimco
Vienna 1900
The Mysteries
Pontius Pilate / Herod
The Children
Azariah Dobree
American Roulette
Adam Bede
Reverend Irwine
Hell's Bells
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oberon
The Inspector
Dickens
Pirates of Tortuga
Henri Morgan
The Secret Rapture
Max Lopert
Circle of Deception
Capt. Stein
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Charles Napier
Ten Days That Shook the World
Lenin
The Executioner
Beust
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Le professeur
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
QB VII
Robert Highsmith
Anyone for Denis
Schubert
Wings of Fame
Merrick
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Charles Watson
Anyone for Denis?
Lunch Hour
Man
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Dandelion Dead
Henry Vaughan
The Queen's Guards
Horizontal Hold
James Woodley
Ada in the Jungle
Lord Gordon
Ill Fares the Land
Hesther for Example
Warburton
The Search for Alexander the Great
Darius of Persia