There is one film in particular 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!
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 & 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 & 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 began his career in the acting profession after being awarded a scholarship
from Essex County Council, he then went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Next, was the Hornchurch Repertory Theatre in Essex followed by the Theatre Royal
in Lincoln after which Gary went on to Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory
Theatre, now known as the Old Rep.
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