John Reginald Neville, CM OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) [1] was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years. He was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre to fantasy and science fiction.. Neville was one of the young leading lights of the British theatre in the early 1950s, with he and …

John Neville. Actor: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. When John Neville was in his early sixties, Terry Gilliam cast him in the title role of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Although the film was a financial failure, Neville's starring role in this major production, as well as his fine performance, led to an explosion in his career.

Nov 22, 2011 · John Reginald Neville was born in London on May 2, 1925, attended local schools and served in the Royal Navy in World War II, after which he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Nov 19, 2011 · John Neville, OBE, CM was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada with his family in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". He was appointed to the Order of Canada, that nation's highest civilian honor, in 2006. According to publicists at …

Nov 22, 2011 · Shakespearean actor John Neville, who also starred in The X Files and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, has died from Alzheimer's at the age of 86. The British-born actor died at Toronto's ...

Nov 26, 2011 · John Reginald Neville, actor and director: born London 2 May 1925; OBE 1965, CM 2006; married 1949 Caroline Hooper (three sons, three daughters); died Toronto 19 November 2011.

John Neville was the great lost classical leader of the British stage: in the 1950s, heading the Old Vic company alongside Richard Burton, he achieved the kind of romantic superstardom in Shakespeare unfamiliar since the prewar times of Olivier and (in America) John Barrymore. A few years later, however, he accepted an invitation to direct a ...

John Neville, the respected British-born actor and director who was artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival 1985-89, died in Toronto on Nov. 19, surrounded by family, the ...

Aug 13, 2015 · John Neville was a star of the London stage during the 1950s, excelling both in Shakespearean roles and in productions of contemporary plays. Though known primarily as a classical actor with impeccable diction, Neville surprised critics and audiences with his pitch-perfect portrayal of the title character in Alfie, the play about a Cockney ...

John Neville. Actor: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. When John Neville was in his early sixties, Terry Gilliam cast him in the title role of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Although the film was a financial failure, Neville's starring role in this major production, as well as his fine performance, led to an explosion in his career.