Robert Aldous (born 1934 in
Mansfield
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Nottinghamshire
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England
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) is an English stage and television actor.
Robert (Bob) trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1953–55. In a long and varied career, his main priority was the stage and he has acted with most of the major regional theatre companies and toured extensively in the UK and overseas. He was for two years associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and appeared in The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and in An Enemy of the People and Peter Pan at the National Theatre. For thirty years he was the “baddie” in big provincial pantomimes! On television he can claim appearances in Dad's Army, Dr Who, “Allo,”Allo! and The First Churchills, the first ever colour television serial. He also specialised in productions requiring the Nottingham dialect, with which he helped many performers. Robert has served on the Equity Council, the Arts Council’s Drama Advisory Panel and on the Actors’ Church Union Council of Management and on St Paul's Cathedral Friends’ Council. He retired at the age of 79 after a fifty-six years career.
Filmography
Film
Also appeared in two documentaries for the National Coal Board.
Television
Theatre
West End
Tours and Seasons
Regional and Repertory Theatre
He was a leading player in seasons at Bristol Old Vic, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Leeds Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Victoria Theatre Stoke, Plymouth Theatre, Cardiff Sherman Theatre, Leicester Haymarket, Farnham Playhouse, Lincoln Theatre Royal and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Pantomime
His background as a straight actor meant that for nearly thirty years he was the used to play the “baddie” in big VARIETY productions, starring such performers as Arthur Askey, Danny La Rue (seven times), Terry Scott, Leslie Crowther, Jimmy Edwards Richard Murdoch and many others.
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1934 births
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Living people
English male stage actors
English male television actors
Male actors from Nottinghamshire
Actors from Mansfield