 Richard
Pasco
Richard
began his career in 1943 as student-apprentice Stage Manager
at old “Q” Theatre, London. After his War Service and two
years at The Central School of Speech and Drama where he won
the Gold Medal, he joined The Old Vic Company from 1950 –
1952; 1952 – 1955 at Sir Barry Jackson’s Birmingham Rep; Royal
Court 1956-58, where work included Look Back in Anger and
The Entertainer (He made his first Broadway appearance in
the latter in 1958)
West
End includes
Hamlet
(Brook.Schofield – also Moscow 1955), Teresa of Avila, The
Lady from the Sea, Look Homeward Angel, The Private Ear and
the Public Eye, Ivanov, An Inspector Calls (transferred from
The Royal National Theatre), The Italian Girl, Man and Superman.
At Bristol Old Vic and touring Europe, Scandinavia, Israel,
Canada, USA from 1064 –67, with title roles included Henry
V, Hamlet, Peer Gynt Love’s Labour’s Lost and Measure for
Measure.
RSC
1969-74;
The Winter’s Tale, Women Beware Women, Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Henry VIII, Twelfth Night, Richard II (Alternating Richard
& Bollingbroke), Much Ado about Nothing, Duchess of Malfi,
The Lower Depths, Murder in the Cathedral, As You Like It
(Jaques), Major Barbara, The Marrying of Ann Leete
1979 – 82; Timon of Athens, Richard III, The Forest and La
Ronde
2000; The Seagull
National
Theatre includes;
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Fathers and Sons, Racing
Demon, Murmuring Judges, An Inspector Calls (Lyttleton, tour
and Olivier), The Absence of War, Sweet Bird of Youth.
Television
The absence of War, Sorrel and Son, Drummonds, The Man From
The Pru, Hannay, Inspector Morse, Bramwell, Kavanagh QC, Dance
to the Music of Time and most recently Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Film
Room at the Top, Yesterday’s Enemy, Hot Enough for June, The
Gorgon, Rasputin, A Watcher in the Woods, Arch of Triumph,
Wagner, Lady Jane and Mrs Brown with Judi Dench and Billy
Connolly.
Concert
Appearances
Manfred and Egmont (Aldeburgh), The Trojans, Oedipus Rex (Proms),
The Soldier’s Tale, Façade (Barbican), and Noye’s Fludde (Chester/Salisbury
Festivals). Frequent appearances at major arts festivals (often
with his wife Barbara Leigh-Hunt) in anthology programmes;
accompanied the late Princess Grace of Monaco at recitals
in Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and US tour.
Recordings
Including complete sonnets of Shakespeare and a selection
from The Psalms (with Sir John Geilgud) and also with Sir
John (1991) The Pilgrim’s Progress, A Bunyan Sequence. Works
with the Medici Quartet in programmes about Janacek and Elgar,
and he is a regular broadcaster in Radio Drama. Is an Honorary
Associate Artist of the RSC and received the CBE in 1977.
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