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John Carlisle (6 September 1935 – 7 December 2011) was an English television and stage actor.




Early life


Carlisle was born in London and named John Roxburgh Clark. He decided in his early teens that he wanted to become an actor. He started acting in amateur productions until he was called up for National Service. Upon his release he worked odd jobs, determined to finance an acting course at RADA. Eventually he found himself with enough money, only to discover all his hard work had been unnecessary, for he had been entitled to a council grant all along.
On completion of his training at RADA, Carlisle joined Harrogate Repertory and subsequently appeared in repertory all over the country, including at Ipswich, Birmingham and Liverpool.




Television and film


While appearing in repertory at Birmingham, Carlisle was spotted by an ATV casting director and asked to audition for the hospital drama series Emergency Ward 10. Carlisle first assumed the role of the young doctor Lester Large in episode 533, in 1962. His character became a regular in the show, and Carlisle made numerous appearances including in the final episode of the long-running series in 1967.
He starred alongside John Woodvine in the London Weekend Television crime series New Scotland Yard from 1972 to 1973. He played the opinionated and sometimes callous Detective Inspector (later Sergeant) Alan Ward and referred to having played the role "in kind of a Gestapo way, beating up criminals and things like that". The portrayal led to letters of complaint, so that the character was toned down in subsequent series. In 1979, Carlisle appeared in the BBC series The Omega Factor as the morally ambiguous psychiatrist Dr. Roy Martindale. In 2002 he portrayed the important supporting role of James Forsyte, father of Soames Forsyte, in The Forsyte Saga.
He also made one-off appearances in series such as The Avengers, Z-Cars, Strange Report, Dixon of Dock Green, Lovejoy, The Black Adder, Hustle, Holby City, Robin Hood, The Catherine Tate Show, Midsomer Murders, Between the Lines, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Doctors.
On film, Carlisle played the elderly Private Mirus in the 2001 horror film The Bunker. He also had small roles in Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah (2005) and in Forget Me Not (2010).
Carlisle died in London, England, UK on 7 December 2011, aged 76.




Later work in theatre


Carlisle joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1979, rather unusually for an actor who until then had predominantly worked in television. He then performed extensively on stage (see 'Selected stage work'). He appeared on Broadway in the RSC productions Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing (both 1985) and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1986) as well as A Doll's House (1997). As an Associate Artist with the RSC he appeared in a great number of plays, including The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Seagull and Per Gynt. In later years he worked prominently at the National Theatre.




Selected stage work


1970 – The Boys in the Band (as director and actor)
1978 – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1980 – Timon of Athens
1980/1981 – Richard III
1981 – The Maid's Tragedy
1981 – The Fool
1981 – Troilus and Cressida
1982 – The Taming of the Shrew
1982–85 – Much Ado About Nothing
1983 – Molière
1984 – Softcops
1984 – Cyrano de Bergerac
1984 – Love's Labour's Lost
1984–1985 – Henry V
1984–1986 – Richard III
1986 – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1987 – Hyde Park
1987 – The New Inn
1987/1988 – The Jew of Malta
1987/1988 – The Merchant of Venice
1987–1988 – Twelfth Night
1988 – A Question of Geography
1989 – A Midsummer Night's Dream
1989 – Cymbeline
1990 – Two Shakespeare Actors
1990 – The Seagull
1990/1991 – Much Ado About Nothing
1991/1992 – A Woman of No Importance
1993 – Elgar's Rondo
1994 – Ghosts
1994/1995 – Alice's Adventures Underground
1995 – Cain
1996 – The Painter of Dishonour
1997 – A Doll's House
1997/1998 – The Invention of Love
1999 – King Lear
2000 – Semi Monde
2002 – The Coast of Utopia
2003/04 – His Dark Materials
2005 – Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
2005 – As You Desire Me




Audio work


1994 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (abridged, Naxos AudioBooks)
1994 – Fast Coach To Gneixendorf (BBC)
1995 – A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC)
1996 – Framely Parsonage (BBC)
1997 – A House By The Sea (BBC)
1998 – The Birds Fall Down (BBC Radio 4)
1999 – The Invention of Love (BBC Radio 3)
2001 – King Lear (BBC R3)
2002 – His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (BBC R4)
2002 – Wife To Mr. Milton (BBC R4)
2003 – Our Kath (BBC R4)
2003 – Strangers and Brothers (BBC R4)
2004 – Miracle Postponed (BBC R4)
2005 – Fragments (BBC R4)
2006 – Street And Lane (BBC R4)
2007 – Felix Holt, The Radical (BBC)
??? – Byron (ballet by Paul Reid) (BBC)




References






External links


John Carlisle at IMDb
John Carlisle at the Internet Broadway Database

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