Robert Stephens
Acting • Born 1931-07-14 – Died 1995-11-12
Biography
Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes. He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted. Description above partly from the Wikipedia article Robert Stephens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
85 credits
Anyone for Denis
Movie • 1982
Schubert
The Search for Alexander the Great
Movie • 1981
Darius of Persia
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Movie • 1969
Teddy Lloyd
Travels with My Aunt
Movie • 1972
Ercole Visconti
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1970
Sherlock Holmes
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1968
the Prince
A Taste of Honey
Movie • 1961
Peter Smith
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Movie • 1993
Poe's Teacher
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Movie • 1966
Charles Napier
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
Ted the Drunk
The Asphyx
Movie • 1972
Sir Hugo Cunningham
Ada in the Jungle
Movie • 1988
Lord Gordon
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Movie • 1977
Charles Watson
The Duellists
Movie • 1977
Brigadier-General Treillard
Luther
Movie • 1974
Johann von Eck
Henry V
Movie • 1989
Auncient Pistol
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Movie • 1963
Gerry Sullivan
Lunch Hour
Movie • 1962
Man
Pirates of Tortuga
Movie • 1961
Henri Morgan
30 Door Key
Movie • 1991
Prof. Pimco
High Season
Movie • 1987
Konstantinis
Lorna Doone
Movie • 1990
Sir Ensor Doone
The Inspector
Movie • 1962
Dickens
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie • 1981
Le professeur
The Queen's Guards
Movie • 1961
American Roulette
Movie • 1988
One Fine Day
Movie • 1979
Welby
The Secret Rapture
Movie • 1993
Max Lopert
Circle of Deception
Movie • 1960
Capt. Stein
Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Mr. Lockwood
Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1983
Vic Griffiths
Wings of Fame
Movie • 1990
Merrick
Century
Movie • 1993
Mr. Reisner
Adam Bede
Movie • 1992
Reverend Irwine
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1967
Benedick
The Fruit Machine
Movie • 1988
Vincent
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1971
Oberon
Ten Days That Shook the World
Movie • 1967
Lenin
Horizontal Hold
Movie • 1968
James Woodley
Puccini
Movie • 1984
Giacomo Puccini
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1969
Mark Antony
The Children
Movie • 1990
Azariah Dobree
Afraid of the Dark
Movie • 1991
Dan Burns
England, My England
Movie • 1995
John Dryden
The Winter's Tale
Movie • 1981
Polixenes
Cleopatra
Movie • 1963
Germanicus
Ill Fares the Land
Movie • 1983
The Pope Must Die
Movie • 1991
The Camarlengo
Comrades
Movie • 1987
James Frampton
The Shout
Movie • 1978
Chief Medical Officer
The Executioner
Movie • 1980
Beust
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Movie • 1990
Sir Gerald Moore
Hesther for Example
Movie • 1980
Warburton
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Testimony
Movie • 1988
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Sir Wilfred Mulryne
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Max Carrados
The Year of the French
TV • 1982
George Moore
Channing
TV • 1963
Paddy Riordan
Hell's Bells
TV • 1986
Bishop Godfrey Hethercote
Vienna 1900
TV • 1973
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Mark Antony
The Box of Delights
TV • 1984
Abner Brown
Lizzie's Pictures
TV • 1987
Anyone for Denis?
TV • 1982
Dandelion Dead
TV • 1994
Henry Vaughan
QB VII
TV • 1974
Robert Highsmith
Unnatural Causes
TV • 1986
Vince
The Mysteries
TV • 1985
Pontius Pilate / Herod
Minder
TV • 1979
Percy
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Uncle Kurt Dorf
Lady Killers
TV • 1980
Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C.
99-1
TV • 1994
Oakwood
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV • 1991
Hades
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Warburton
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Trigorin
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Oberon
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Grigory Rasputin
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Prince of Wales
Anyone for Denis?
TV • 1982
Schubert
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Bill Castlebar
Tales Out of School
TV • 1983
Vic Griffiths
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Stephen
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Boris Trigorin