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Jeremy Nicholas (writer)
Jeremy Nicholas (born 20 September 1947) is an English actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician.
Born in Wellington, Shropshire, he was raised in Stafford and educated at Flash Ley Primary School, Stafford (1952–57); Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire (1957–65) and Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art (1966–69).
Nicholas's first job between leaving school and going to drama college was as a trainee manager in Beatties department store in Wolverhampton (1965–66) from which he was sacked for rehearsing on the shop floor his lines for an amateur production. During his time at drama college he appeared in pantomime with Jimmy Jewel and Donald Peers, and survived a summer season as a Redcoat at Butlins Skegness.
Nicholas began his career with the Prospect Theatre Company (1969–70) in Richard II and Edward II starring Ian McKellen and Timothy West. He then joined the Citizens Theatre (1970–72) for the first two seasons under the directorship of Giles Havergal, Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. The first role he played there was Gertrude in an all-male production of Hamlet followed by The Player King in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Other parts included Butler in Edward Albee's Tiny Alice ('a lithe carnivorously affable reading by the most promising new actor I have seen this year'); Lord Foppington in The Relapse; Young Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer, Len in Saved and The Emperor in The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria.
He performed his own solo adaptation of Three Men in a Boat at the Edinburgh Festival (1980) and May Fair Theatre (1981–82), which won him a nomination for an Olivier Award as Most Promising Newcomer. He subsequently re-adapted the book for BBC Radio 4 and again for a Channel 4 film, as well as also adapting Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel for Radio 4. Other theatre roles include Narrator in Side by Side by Sondheim (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester); Jack Chesney in Charley's Aunt (York); Richard II in Circle of Glory (national tour); Lord Brocklehurst in The Admirable Crichton (Greenwich Theatre), Greg in Relatively Speaking opposite Dora Bryan and Moray Watson; Lenny in The Homecoming (directed by Timothy West); national tours of Beyond the Fringe as Dudley Moore (for Cameron Mackintosh); Canaries Sometimes Sing (with Diana Weston); An Ideal Husband (with Jeremy Sinden and Stephanie Turner) and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal (Derby and Nottingham).
Nicholas has also performed on television in roles such as Inigo Jollifant in The Good Companions, Nathaniel Winkle in The Pickwick Papers, John Maddingham in Crossroads, Sir Jonathan Sibley in Fay Weldon's Bright Smiler (1985) (with Janet Suzman and Jane Asher), Prospects (opposite David Suchet), The Upper Hand, Lewis Lake in Wish Me Luck, as well as voicing Lionel in all 39 episodes of Budgie the Little Helicopter. Other television appearances include roles in The Duchess of Duke Street, Z-Cars, When the Boat Comes In, the episodes 'Whispers' (1981) as Colin Thomas; 'Past Lives' (1982) as Peter Marshall; 'Work Force' (1984) as Vernon in Juliet Bravo, Rumpole of the Bailey, Heartbeat (1999), Birds of a Feather, The Bill and London's Burning. He played David Dimbleby in The Windsors (2016) opposite Harry Enfield. His film career has included roles in Sex and the Other Woman (1972), On the Game (1974), The Stud (1974), Turtle Diary (1985), Ishtar (1987) and Stanley's Dragon (1994).
He has presented and / or narrated many classical music concerts including Peter and the Wolf (2015), Francis Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, Façade, The Snowman, The Mousehole Cat, Mr Majeika and the Magic Organ, The King of Instruments (set to his own verses) and The Carnival of the Animals (1985), set to his own "eruditely witty and elegant new verses" and also those of Ogden Nash. In 2008 he became the first actor since Robert Donat in 1954 to give a live performance with orchestra of Alan Rawsthorne's Practical Cats (2009) with the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast on Radio 3. Since 2007 he has hosted and compiled the programme for the annual carol concert in Birmingham Town Hall.
From 1983 to 1991 Nicholas was 'the Baron' in a series of German and Austrian commercials for Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Also in 1983 he featured in an award-winning commercial for Hamlet cigars.
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Jeremy Nicholas (writer)
Jeremy Nicholas (born 20 September 1947) is an English actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician.
Born in Wellington, Shropshire, he was raised in Stafford and educated at Flash Ley Primary School, Stafford (1952–57); Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire (1957–65) and Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art (1966–69).
Nicholas's first job between leaving school and going to drama college was as a trainee manager in Beatties department store in Wolverhampton (1965–66) from which he was sacked for rehearsing on the shop floor his lines for an amateur production. During his time at drama college he appeared in pantomime with Jimmy Jewel and Donald Peers, and survived a summer season as a Redcoat at Butlins Skegness.
Nicholas began his career with the Prospect Theatre Company (1969–70) in Richard II and Edward II starring Ian McKellen and Timothy West. He then joined the Citizens Theatre (1970–72) for the first two seasons under the directorship of Giles Havergal, Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. The first role he played there was Gertrude in an all-male production of Hamlet followed by The Player King in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Other parts included Butler in Edward Albee's Tiny Alice ('a lithe carnivorously affable reading by the most promising new actor I have seen this year'); Lord Foppington in The Relapse; Young Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer, Len in Saved and The Emperor in The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria.
He performed his own solo adaptation of Three Men in a Boat at the Edinburgh Festival (1980) and May Fair Theatre (1981–82), which won him a nomination for an Olivier Award as Most Promising Newcomer. He subsequently re-adapted the book for BBC Radio 4 and again for a Channel 4 film, as well as also adapting Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel for Radio 4. Other theatre roles include Narrator in Side by Side by Sondheim (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester); Jack Chesney in Charley's Aunt (York); Richard II in Circle of Glory (national tour); Lord Brocklehurst in The Admirable Crichton (Greenwich Theatre), Greg in Relatively Speaking opposite Dora Bryan and Moray Watson; Lenny in The Homecoming (directed by Timothy West); national tours of Beyond the Fringe as Dudley Moore (for Cameron Mackintosh); Canaries Sometimes Sing (with Diana Weston); An Ideal Husband (with Jeremy Sinden and Stephanie Turner) and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal (Derby and Nottingham).
Nicholas has also performed on television in roles such as Inigo Jollifant in The Good Companions, Nathaniel Winkle in The Pickwick Papers, John Maddingham in Crossroads, Sir Jonathan Sibley in Fay Weldon's Bright Smiler (1985) (with Janet Suzman and Jane Asher), Prospects (opposite David Suchet), The Upper Hand, Lewis Lake in Wish Me Luck, as well as voicing Lionel in all 39 episodes of Budgie the Little Helicopter. Other television appearances include roles in The Duchess of Duke Street, Z-Cars, When the Boat Comes In, the episodes 'Whispers' (1981) as Colin Thomas; 'Past Lives' (1982) as Peter Marshall; 'Work Force' (1984) as Vernon in Juliet Bravo, Rumpole of the Bailey, Heartbeat (1999), Birds of a Feather, The Bill and London's Burning. He played David Dimbleby in The Windsors (2016) opposite Harry Enfield. His film career has included roles in Sex and the Other Woman (1972), On the Game (1974), The Stud (1974), Turtle Diary (1985), Ishtar (1987) and Stanley's Dragon (1994).
He has presented and / or narrated many classical music concerts including Peter and the Wolf (2015), Francis Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, Façade, The Snowman, The Mousehole Cat, Mr Majeika and the Magic Organ, The King of Instruments (set to his own verses) and The Carnival of the Animals (1985), set to his own "eruditely witty and elegant new verses" and also those of Ogden Nash. In 2008 he became the first actor since Robert Donat in 1954 to give a live performance with orchestra of Alan Rawsthorne's Practical Cats (2009) with the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast on Radio 3. Since 2007 he has hosted and compiled the programme for the annual carol concert in Birmingham Town Hall.
From 1983 to 1991 Nicholas was 'the Baron' in a series of German and Austrian commercials for Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Also in 1983 he featured in an award-winning commercial for Hamlet cigars.
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