Terence Beesley (7 September 1957 – 30 November 2017)
was an English actor.
Early life
Born in
London
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to Irish parents, he studied at the
City Lit in London in 1980, and then trained as an actor at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career
Television
His television work included ''
Cadfael'', ''
The Bill
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The programme focused on ...
'', ''
Where the Heart Is'', ''
Heartbeat
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'', ''
Midsomer Murders
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'', ''
EastEnders'' (as
Derek Branning in 1996), ''
Casualty'', ''
Down to Earth'', ''
Plotlands'',
''
Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''
She's Out'' and ''
What Remains What Remains may refer to:
* ''What Remains'' (book), a 2003 photography book by Sally Mann
* ''What Remains'' (novella), a 1990 novella by Christa Wolf
* ''What Remains'' (TV series), a 2013 British drama series
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''. He starred in
Peter Kosminsky's ''15, The Life and Death of Phillip Knight'', and played General Bennigsen in the
BBC adaptation of ''War and Peace''.
Theatre
His stage work included British theatre performances as the title role in
Shakespeare
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's ''
Richard III
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'' (1995) and as the Vicomte de Valmont in ''
Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' (1994) for multi Barrymore award winner director Mark Clements and his own adaptation (with Colin Wakefield) of
Nikolai Gogol
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's "
Diary of a Madman" (as a one-man play) at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Along with
Jonathan Church and Jules Melvin, he was a founder of the Triptych Theatre Company. Their first production,
Jack Shepherd's ''In Lambeth'' at the Lyric Studio, received much critical acclaim.
Personal life
He met actress
Ashley Jensen in 1999 when they were appearing in a production of ''
King Lear
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It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane a ...
'' at the
Manchester Royal Exchange, and they married in
Big Sur
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,
California
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in 2007. Their son, Francis Jonathan Beesley, was born on 20 October 2009.
Beesley died at the family home in
Camerton,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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on 30 November 2017, aged 60, having been found unconscious in a car in his garage. An inquest in February 2018 ruled that he took his own life by
carbon monoxide poisoning
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.
Filmography
References
External links
*
Terence Beesley(Aveleyman)
1957 births
2017 deaths
2017 suicides
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
English male film actors
English people of Irish descent
English male stage actors
English male television actors
Male actors from London
English male Shakespearean actors
Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning
Suicides in England
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