Gary
Hope has worked on countless television shows over the years, appearing
in many of the top 1960s and 1970s series and serials. Gary's work
includes classics such as Armchair Theatre (The Rose Affair),
Play of the Month (Dance of Death), The Count of Monte
Cristo, Top Secret, Danger Man, No Hiding Place,
The Saint, The Avengers, Public Eye, Clegg,
The Onedin Line, Barlow at Large, Lillie, and
Just William.
In
the 1980s Gary's Guest-Starring roles include: Ashwell in Max
Headroom, and Crossroads, where his character
saves the life of the motel's head-waiter, Paul Ross (Sandor
Eles) after he is viciously attacked. Gary has appeared in numerous
films in the course of his career, including: Just for Fun
(1963), Licenced to Kill (1965), Night, After Night,
After Night (1969), Big Zapper (1973) Licenced to Love
and Kill (1979), and Number One Gun (1990).
There
is one film in particular of which Gary is most proud to have worked on
and that is Live On Arrival (1999), written and directed by
Paul Spurrier. The film also stars the late Ronald Lacey (in his last
film) as Gordon Wheaton and his daughter Rebecca
Lacey plays Nurse O'Connell. The premise of the film is that a
man arrives at the casualty department of a hospital and is pronounced
dead; he does however still have the ability to walk and talk!
See Gary Hope
in Live On Arrival (Click full-screen toggle).
Gary
has also worked extensively on radio, including the BBC World Service.
He also starred in the BBC Radio 3 play The Trout Sextet, Or
The One That Got Away, by Rufus Stone and produced by Piers
Burton-Page. In the play which was first broadcast on January 1 2002
and repeated on July 14 2002, Gary plays the Austrian baritone and
composer, Herr Johann Michael Vogl. The play is about a trip to
Upper-Austria, which Herr Vogl made with his friend and colleague Franz
Schubert in 1819.
More
recently, Gary Guest-Starred as a Civil Registrar in Doctors,
the BBC1 TV daytime medical drama series. The episode entitled Words
and Music was broadcast on April 13 2006. Doctors is set in
the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge and the storylines
revolve around the lives of the staff and patients at The Mill Health
Centre, a busy family medical practice.
Gary
Hope was born in Essex and began his career in the acting profession
after being awarded a scholarship from Essex County Council. Gary
attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama followed by the
Hornchurch Repertory Theatre in Essex, then to the Theatre Royal in
Lincoln after which Gary went on to Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham
Repertory Theatre, now known as the Old Rep.
Gary
Hope's first television appearance was in the ABC Television
drama-anthology series Armchair Theatre. The play entitled The
Rose Affair (see image at top of page) is a multi-award
winning production. The Rose Affair also stars Natasha Parry,
Dudley Foster, Anthony Quayle, Joseph O'Connor and Naunton Wayne. Gary Hope's
character in The Rose Affair is Mr.Face Jr. "The Play
is a witty and imaginative reworking of The Beauty and the
Beast fairytale..." (Screenonline). The Rose Affair was
first broadcast on October 8 1961, Alun Owen wrote the script; his
fifth for the series, Charles Jarrott directed and the producer is
Sydney Newman, (black & white 58 minutes). See the full synopsis at
BFI
Screenonline website.
