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Gerald Harper
- A profile of the actor Gerald Harper
Gerald Harper began his career in the acting
profession
with a season of one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw at the Arts
Theatre in
London. He spent a year in repertory at the Liverpool Playhouse,
after
which he returned to the Arts Theatre for productions including The
Father, by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Gerald's
next
production was in Charley's Aunt with Frankie
Howerd at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London.
Gerald Harper's other West
End work includes, Ross, by Terence Rattigan, at the Haymarket,
Suddenly At Home, at the Fortune, Baggage, at
the Vaudeville and The Little Hut at the Duke Of York's.
Gerald
appeared in Jean Louis Barrault's production of Rabelais, in the role Barrault played in
Paris. The 1980s saw Gerald as Sherlock Holmes
at the Haymarket Theatre, a long run at the Globe in House Guest
and A Personal Affair at the Savoy.
Gerald Harper has appeared in
four musical productions: Free As Air, Bless The Bride,
Me & My Girl and The Corsican Affair.
He has
also starred in Murder By Misadventure at the Vaudeville, The
Royal Baccarat Scandal at the Haymarket, and Mrs Warren's
Profession at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Also in
Manchester,
Gerald appeared in Dion Boucicault's London Assurance and at the
Criterion Theatre in The Countess.
Gerald
Harper's classical work includes two years at the Old Vic Company, this
involved touring the United States from coast-to-coast, in productions Hamlet,
Twelfth Night and Henry V. This was
followed by Lago
at the Bristol Old Vic, and by Benedick at the Chichester
Festival Theatre. He later returned to Broadway to star in
Boeing, Boeing with Ian Carmichael. As well as
acting, Gerald
has also directed many plays in his career, these include Blithe Spirit in Hebrew at the
Israeli National Theatre in Tel Aviv.
Gerald's many film appearances
include: The Admiral Crichton
(1950), The Dambusters
(1954), The League of Gentlemen
(1959), Tunes of Glory
(1960), Shoes of The Fisherman (1968)
and The Lady Vanishes (1979).
Gerald is probably best
known for his television work, most notably as Adam
Adamant in Adam Adamant Lives! (BBC, 1966 -
1967). In Adam Adamant,
Gerald plays an Edwardian crime-fighting
adventurer, who has been in a state of suspended-animation for sixty
four years, after being injected with a drug which paralysed him and
then frozen in a block of ice by his arch-nemesis, The Face. In
1966, demolition workers discover Adam
in his frozen state in the building where he has languished for over
half a century, he is subsequently revived. Adam later discovers that The
Face (Peter Ducrow) has also made the transition into the middle
of the twentieth century.
The Yorkshire Television
series Gazette stars Gerald Harper in the role of James
Hadleigh, a Yorkshire newspaper proprietor (the newspaper is
actually owned by Hadleigh's father). Gazette was
originally screened in 1968 and was created by Robert Barr.
Gerald
Harper reprised the Hadleigh character in the 1969 - 1976
Yorkshire Television series Hadleigh, also created by Robert
Barr. James Hadleigh is by now a wealthy Yorkshire
landowner after he
inherited his father's estate, including the Westdale
Gazette.
Hadleigh ran for 52 x 60 minute episodes over its seven seasons.
Gerald Harper's
other television work includes guest-starring roles in series such as
The Avengers, The Champions, Public Eye, The
Protectors, Gideon's Way and Hancock. In 1980
Gerald
was the subject of This is Your Life.
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