Martin Turner (born September 1950) is an English stage and television actor.

Early life

Turner was born in Hong Kong. In the 1970s he was a member of the Inter-Action Community Arts Trust founded by E. D. Berman, before deciding to train as an actor at the

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, under

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and Christopher Fettes.

Career

Theatre

His stage career has been distinguished by playing lead roles for Cheek by Jowl (including Oberon/Theseus in their world tour of ''

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''), the Royal Shakespeare Company, Liverpool Everyman Theatre,

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, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park,

Shakespeare's Globe Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. Founded by Barry Jackson, it is the longest-established of Britain's building-based theatre ...

, Sheffield Crucible,

Chichester Festival Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre is a theatre and Grade II* listed building situated in Oaklands Park in the city of Chichester, West Sussex, England. Designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, it was opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin ...

and other companies. On the West End stage he has played Evelyn Oakleigh opposite Elaine Paige in ''Anything Goes'', and Pierre Guerre in ''Martin Guerre'' (both at the Prince Edward Theatre); Ronald Reagan in ''Gaddafi'' at the English National Opera; Father in ''Rabbit'' at Trafalgar Studios; Banquo, at the Gielgud Theatre, in the highly acclaimed ''Macbeth'' directed by Rupert Goold and starring Patrick Stewart, which transferred to New York's BAM Harvey Theatre and Broadway; and as Juror 11 in '' Twelve Angry Men'' at the

Garrick Theatre The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick. It opened in 1889 with ''The Profligate'', a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and another Pinero play, ...

Television

His featured roles on television include John Harrison in ''

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'')''; Neil Spicer in ''

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''; Charles in ''Prince William'', Cimon in '' Son ''(ABC/Fox); Wing-Commander Turner in '' Foyle's War'' ''(Series 2 & 3)'';

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in '' Charles II: The Power and The Passion''; William Wilberforce in ''Breaking the Chains'';

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in ''

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''; Frogton in '' Killer Net''; Tim Pye in ''The Money Men''; as well as guest roles in ''Holby City'', ''Casualty'', ''The Bill'', ''The Knock'', ''Pie in the Sky'', ''Trainer'', ''Dangerfield'', ''Bergerac'', and ''Rumpole of the Bailey''.

References

External links

* Living people English male stage actors 1950 births English male television actors {{England-actor-stub