Aaron Swartz is a British actor and theatre and film director who has appeared in plays, movies, commercials and television series in the United States and Europe. His first film appearance was in ''

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novel; Swartz played a senior at an American military academy. In 1994, he played Cutter, the lead role in the video game '' Burn:Cycle''. He appeared in 25 episodes of the documentary series ''

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'' (2010–2012) and has directed two films that were sold to the

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. He has starred in the film ''Young Hunters: The Beast of Bevendean'' (2015). Swartz also teaches Theatre arts at several English schools of drama.

Academia

Swartz trained at

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. He currently teaches Acting for Camera at the Drama Centre and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, and at the Academy for Creative Training, in

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. He is also a lecturer in Performing Arts at Bexhill College.

Acting and directing

Film

Swartz has appeared in more than 20 films, including ''The Lords of Discipline'' (1983), ''Claudia'' (1985), ''The Fourth Protocol (film), The Fourth Protocol'' (1987), ''Wild Things'' (1988), ''List of science-fiction films of the 1990s#1991, Murder by Moonlight'' (1991), ''Entrapment (film), Entrapment'' (1999), ''Do Not Disturb (1999 film), Do Not Disturb'' (1999) and ''The 51st State'' (2001). He has starred in two shorts (''Blanche Maguire'', 2005, and ''Mowing the Lawn'', 2008) and in the adventure film ''Young Hunters: The Beast of Bevendean'' (Artefact, 2015). His film directing credits include ''When Will I Be Famous?'' and ''The World's Greatest Fan'', both sold to the BBC. Swartz also directed a group of actors playing victims and witnesses in a staged terror attack on London, for a "pioneering" project by Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma intended to train journalists in trauma awareness.

Theatre

Swartz has appeared in plays at Royal National Theatre, The Royal National Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, and other venues in the UK. His theatre directing credits include ''Mrs. Mesaroz'', ''Hetty Bakes a Cake'', ''What Now?'', ''What Became of the Witch'', ''Once a Catholic'', ''The Arab-Israeli Cookbook'' and ''The Grandfathers''.

Television

In 1984, Swartz played Herbert Jamison in an episode of ''The First Olympics: Athens 1896'', a miniseries that won a Writers Guild of America Award. In 1986, he appeared in ''The Last Days of Patton'', an American made-for-TV movie; in 1996, he appeared in ''Over Here'', a British made-for-TV movie. He also appeared in 25 episodes of the documentary series ''

'' (2010–2012), as the character Dan Mazur.

Video games

Swartz played the lead role of Cutter in the cyberpunk, full motion video, full-motion video game ''Burn:Cycle'' (1994). According to ''Computer Gaming World'', "the acting (with Aaron Swartz as Cutter) is better than the 'Dinner Theater 101' level that's usually the rule in computer games."

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swartz, Aaron Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English male television actors English male film actors 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male video game actors Male actors from London Academics of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama English male stage actors Alumni of the Drama Centre London Academics of the Drama Centre London