Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Judi Meredith obit

Judi Meredith Nelson (1936 - 2014)

Obituary

 

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Nelson, Judi Meredith 77 Oct. 13, 1936 April 30, 2014 Judi Meredith Nelson, 77, of Las Vegas, passed away April 30, 2014. She was born Judith Claire Boutin Oct. 13, 1936, to Herbert Boutin and Janice M. Starr, in Portland. Judi graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Portland. She was happily married for 51 years to Gary Nelson. They lived together in Encino, Calif., until 1998 then resided in both Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla., until finally settling in Las Vegas in 2002.

 At 15, Judi was a professional ice skater in the Ice Follies until 1951 when she suffered a serious skiing accident which ended her skating career. Soon after, George Burns "discovered" her at the Pasadena Play House and asked her to join the cast of the Burns and Allen Show. Judi went on to co-star and star in numerous television shows and films, many of which were memorable such as: Summer Love, Jack the Giant Killer, Night Walker, Queen of Blood, Gunsmoke, Have Gun will Travel, Wagon Train, Bonanza and Hawaii Five-O to name a few. 

Through mid-1957, she appeared in small roles on a number of TV shows (including Burns and Allen) billed under her real name of Judi Boutin. Eventually, she assumed the name Judi Meredith, and was cast by Burns in the supporting role of Bonnie Sue McAfee on the Burns and Allen show, becoming a recurring performer on the show in 1957-58. In 1958-59, she appeared in a recurring role as herself (in the role of the girlfriend of Ronnie Burns) on the follow-up series The George Burns Show. 1958 also saw Meredith's film debut, Wild Heritage.

It was on Hotel de Paree where she met a then young assistant director named Gary Nelson. Not long after, Judi agreed to star on the TV show "Have Gun Will Travel" for free if Gary would be allowed to direct. Once married, her new husband proclaimed that "there would be only one professional in the house" thus slowly supplanting Judi's acting career with his directing career. Judi was an avid photographer and enjoyed yearly trips to a ranch in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming with Gary and their two sons, Garrett and Blue. She also enjoyed a lifelong passion for her rose garden and always supported her husband on film and television locations around the world. When not filming, they spent their time cruising on their yacht throughout the Caribbean. Judi is survived by her husband, Gary; sons, Garrett Nelson of Las Vegas and Blue Nelson of Los Angeles; and sister, Randa DeLorge of La Pine. Donations may be made in Judi's name to St. Joseph Husband of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Las Vegas.

Selected filmography

 

    Wild Heritage (1958)

    Money, Women and Guns (1958)

    Have Gun, Will Travel (1959)

    Summer Love (1958)

    Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

    The Raiders (1963)

    The Night Walker (1964)

    Dark Intruder (1965)

    Queen of Blood (1966)

    Something Big (1971)

Larry Ramos obit

 Larry Ramos of the Association Dies at Age 72

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Larry Ramos, guitarist and vocalist with the Association, has died at age 72. His daughter, broke the news on the Association's Facebook page.

“It is with immense sadness I write this. My Dad, Larry Ramos passed away this evening (April 30). As you all know he had been ill for the past three years following his heart attack in 2011. What you don't know is he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma last year (he wanted that diagnosis to be kept private while he was alive.) While his illnesses were trying at times, his passing was peaceful and he was surrounded by family."

Ramos was born and raised in Kauai, Hawaii, with music always at the center of this life. He learned to play the ukelele before eventually tackling the guitar. He joined the New Christy Minstrels in the early '60s, even winning a Grammy Award with them in 1963.

In 1967, founding Association member Gary Jules Alexander left the band, and Ramos was asked to join. He was with the band through their most successful period, including a spot on the bill at the famous Monterey Pop Festival in June of '67 that proved they were no mere studio creation. He recorded five studio albums and several glorious singles with the band before leaving in 1975 to concentrate on raising his family. He would rejoin the group in 1980 and remain part of their story, off and on, for the next three decades. Ramos gave his final performance with the Association on Feb. 24, 2014.

When it comes to the great harmony groups of the '60s, the Association rank among the finest. Their lush harmonies, rich production style, and almost fragile song arrangements were not only at home on pop radio, but were influential to the likes of Steely Dan to Fleetwood Mac over the years. Between 1966 and 1968, they had seven Top 40 hits, including 'Along Comes Mary,' 'Everything That Touches You,' and two chart toppers, 'Cherish' and 'Windy.' It was, however, their No. 2 single from the summer of 1967 that has been the Association's signature song. That song, of course, was 'Never My Love' -- which just missed the top spot on the chart, but over the years has become a beloved rock and roll standard.

Ramos was of Filipino descent with a blend of Chinese and Spanish. He was born to father Larry Ramos Sr., who operated pool halls in Honolulu, Kakaako and Kalaheo, and mother Pat Ramos. He was raised in Waimea, Kauai County, Hawaii.

Ramos' father taught him how to play the ukulele, beginning with "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" at the age of four.

Paul Goddard obit

Atlanta Rhythm Section Bassist Paul Goddard Dies at 68

The founding member of the Southern rock band played on such hits as “So in to You,” “Are You Ready” and “Spooky.”

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Paul Goddard, the bass player and a founding member of the stylish Southern rock band the Atlanta Rhythm Section, died Tuesday of cancer in Atlanta, the group’s manager, Len Fico, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 68.

Goddard performed on such ARS hits as “So Into You,” “Imaginary Lover,” “I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight,” “Do It or Die” and the remake of the Classics IV’s “Spooky.”

Rolling Stone magazine voted Goddard’s work on “Another Man’s Woman,” from the 1979 live album Are You Ready!, as one of the top five bass solos of all time.

The bespectacled Goddard, who favored Rickenbacker 4001 and Fender P bass guitars, had retired from touring in the mid-1980s but returned to the band in 2011 with singer Rodney Justo, another founding member.

“I knew Paul when he was a guitarist, and maybe that’s why his bass playing was so musical,” said Justo, who exited the band in 1972 to be replaced by the late singer Ronnie Hammond.  “And to go with that musicality was a unique sound that made him so identifiable to fans and other musicians as well. Yes, at one time he was ‘that big fat guy that played bass,’ but once he started playing, he wasn’t fat. He was a giant.”

Guitarist Barry Bailey, keyboardist Dean Daughtry and drummer Robert Nix were the other original members of ARS, which came out of the small town of Doraville, Ga.

Buddy Buie, a songwriter and guitarist for Classics IV, put the band together and produced, managed and wrote songs for ARS.

ARS’ first big hit was the top 10 single “So Into You,” from their 1976 Polydor release A Rock and Roll Alternative, which went gold.

The band loved to tour, and they once played for President Jimmy Carter (and fellow Georgia native) at the White House.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Al Feldstein obit

Al Feldstein, Helmsman At 'Mad' Magazine, Dies At 88

 

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NEW YORK (AP) — Before “The Daily Show,” ’'The Simpsons” or even “Saturday Night Live,” Al Feldstein helped show America how to laugh at authority and giggle at popular culture.

Millions of young baby boomers looked forward to that day when the new issue of Mad magazine, which Feldstein ran for 28 years, arrived in the mail or on newsstands. Alone in their room, or huddled with friends, they looked for the latest of send-up of the president or of a television commercial. They savored the mystery of the fold-in, where a topical cartoon appeared with a question on top that was answered by collapsing the page and creating a new, and often, hilarious image.

Thanks in part to Feldstein, who died Tuesday at his home in Montana at age 88, comics were more than escapes into alternate worlds of superheroes and clean-cut children. They were a funhouse tour of current events and the latest crazes. Mad was breakthrough satire for the post-World War II era — the kind of magazine Holden Caulfield of “The Catcher In the Rye” might have read, or better, might have founded.

“Basically everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read Mad, and that’s where your sense of humor came from,” producer Bill Oakley of “The Simpsons” later explained.

Feldstein’s reign at Mad, which began in 1956, was historic and unplanned. Publisher William M. Gaines had started Mad as a comic book four years earlier and converted it to a magazine to avoid the restrictions of the then-Comics Code and to persuade founding editor Harvey Kurtzman to stay on. But Kurtzman soon departed anyway and Gaines picked Feldstein as his replacement. Some Kurtzman admirers insisted that he had the sharper edge, but Feldstein guided Mad to mass success. He was a writer-illustrator of the Meet Corliss Archer comic book.

One of Feldstein’s smartest moves was to build on a character used by Kurtzman. Feldstein turned the freckle-faced Alfred E. Neuman into an underground hero — a dimwitted everyman with a gap-toothed smile and the recurring stock phrase “What, Me Worry?” Neuman’s character was used to skewer any and all, from Santa Claus to Darth Vader, and more recently in editorial cartoonists’ parodies of President George W. Bush, notably a cover image The Nation that ran soon after Bush’s election in 2000 and was captioned “Worry.”

“The skeptical generation of kids it shaped in the 1950s is the same generation that, in the 1960s, opposed a war and didn’t feel bad when the United States lost for the first time and in the 1970s helped turn out an Administration and didn’t feel bad about that either,” Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis wrote of Mad in The New York Times in 1977.

“It was magical, objective proof to kids that they weren’t alone, that ... there were people who knew that there was something wrong, phony and funny about a world of bomb shelters, brinkmanship and toothpaste smiles. Mad’s consciousness of itself, as trash, as comic book, as enemy of parents and teachers, even as money-making enterprise, thrilled kids. In 1955, such consciousness was possibly nowhere else to be found.”

Feldstein and Gaines assembled a team of artists and writers, including Dave Berg, Don Martin and Frank Jacobs, who turned out such enduring features as “Spy vs. Spy” and “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” Fans of the magazine ranged from the poet-musician Patti Smith and activist Tom Hayden to movie critic Roger Ebert, who said Mad helped inspire him to write about film.

“Mad’s parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe,” Ebert once explained.

“The Portable Mad,” a compilation of magazine highlights edited by Feldstein in 1964, is a typical Mad sampling. Among its offerings: “Some Mad Devices for Safer Smoking” (including a “nasal exhaust fan” and “disposable lung-liner tips”); “The Mad Academy Awards for Parents” (one nominee does her “And THIS is the thanks I get!” routine); “The Lighter Side of Summer Romances;" and “Mad’s Teenage Idol Promoter of the Year” (which mocks Elvis Presley and the Beatles.)

Under Gaines and Feldstein, Mad’s sales flourished, topping 2 million in the early 1970s and not even bothering with paid advertisements until well after Feldstein had left. The magazine branched out into books, movies (the flop “Up the Academy”) and a board game, a parody of Monopoly.

But not everyone was amused.

During the Vietnam War, Mad once held a spoof contest inviting readers to submit their names to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for an “Official Draft Dodger Card.” Feldstein said two bureau agents soon showed up at the magazine’s offices to demand an apology for “sullying” Hoover’s reputation. The magazine also attracted critics in Congress who questioned its morality, and a $25 million lawsuit in the early 1960s from music publishers who objected to the magazine’s parodies of Irving Berlin’s “Always” and other songs, a long legal process that was resolved in Mad’s favor.

“We doubt that even so eminent a composer as plaintiff Irving Berlin should be permitted to claim a property interest in iambic pentameter,” Judge Irving Kaufman wrote at the time.

By Feldstein’s retirement, in 1984, Mad had succeeded so well in influencing the culture that it no longer shocked or surprised: Circulation had dropped to less than a third of its peak, although the magazine continues to be published in local editions around the world.

Feldstein moved west from the magazine’s New York headquarters, first to Wyoming and later Montana. From a horse and llama ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, he ran a guest house and pursued his “first love” — painting wildlife, nature scenes and fantasy art and entering local art contests. In 2003, he was elected into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, named for the celebrated cartoonist.

Born in 1925, Feldstein grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He was a gifted cartoonist who was winning prizes in grade school and, as a teenager, at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. He got his first job in comics around the same time, working at a shop run by Eisner and Jerry Iger. One of his earliest projects was drawing background foliage for “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle,” which starred a female version of Tarzan.

Feldstein served in the military at the end of World War II, painting murals and drawing cartoons for Army newspapers. After his discharge, he freelanced for various comics before landing at Entertainment Comics, whose titles included Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science and Mad. Much of Entertainment Comics was shut down in the 1950s in part because of government pressure, but Mad soon caught on as a stand-alone magazine, willing to take on both sides of the generation gap.

“We even used to rake the hippies over the coals,” Feldstein would recall. “They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat.”

Bob Hoskins obit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71

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 Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles.
Short and bald, with a face he once compared to "a squashed cabbage," Hoskins was a remarkably versatile performer. As a London gangster in "The Long Good Friday," he moved from bravura bluster to tragic understatement. In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," he cavorted with a cast of animated characters, making technological trickery seem seamless and natural.

A family statement released Wednesday said Hoskins had died in a hospital the night before after a bout of pneumonia. He was 71 and had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2012. Helen Mirren, who starred alongside Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday," called him "a great actor and an even greater man. Funny, loyal, instinctive, hard-working, with that inimitable energy that seemed like a spectacular firework rocket just as it takes off."


"I personally will miss him very much, London will miss one of her best and most loving sons, and Britain will miss a man to be proud of," Mirren said. The 5'6" (1.68 meters tall) Hoskins, who was built like a bullet, specialized in tough guys with a soft center, including the ex-con who chaperones Cathy Tyson's escort in Neil Jordan's 1986 film "Mona Lisa." Hoskins was nominated for a best-actor Academy Award for the role.

"Neil Jordan's 'Mona Lisa' and Bob Zemeckis' 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' were just two of the films that showed Bob Hoskins' tremendous range," said Steven Spielberg, who produced "Roger Rabbit" and later directed Hoskins in his Peter Pan tale "Hook." "He was an actor who loved to work and the work loved him. And so did every audience," Spielberg said.

Hoskins' breakout Hollywood role was as a detective investigating cartoon crime in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," a tribute to hard-boiled 1940s entertainment that was one of the first major movies to meld animation and live action. The 1988 Robert Zemeckis film was a huge global success that won three Oscars and helped revive animated filmmaking. "For all the special effects and technical wizardry, it was Bob's honesty and the truth of his performance that made the animated characters believable — and that was a testament to his real talent," said Zemeckis.

Born in 1942 in eastern England, where his mother had moved to escape wartime bombing, Hoskins was raised in a working-class part of north London. He left school at 15, worked at odd jobs including circus fire-eater and claimed he got his break as an actor by accident — while watching a friend audition, he was handed a script and asked to read.

"I got the lead in the play," Hoskins told the BBC in 1988. "I've never been out of work since." Hoskins initially worked in theater, but began getting television and film roles in the 1970s. He came to attention in Britain as star of "Pennies from Heaven," Dennis Potter's 1978 TV miniseries about a Depression-era salesman whose imagination sprouts elaborate musical numbers. It was later turned into a movie starring Steve Martin.

His movie breakthrough came in 1980 thriller "The Long Good Friday," playing an East End gangster hoping to profit from redevelopment of London's docks. It contained one of Hoskins' most memorable speeches, a Cockney-accented dismissal of American culture: "What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?" The film, which also featured a young Pierce Brosnan, is ranked 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century.

Hoskins worked in films big and small, mainstream and independent. Some were acclaimed, including factory worker story "Made in Dagenham" or "Last Orders," a bittersweet portrait of aging that reunited him with Mirren. Others were panned, such as limp Spice Girls vehicle "Spice World" and video game-based dud "Super Mario Bros," which Hoskins described as his worst film experience.

He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's musical "The Cotton Club," starred alongside Cher in "Mermaids," played pirate Smee in Spielberg's "Hook" and was FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in "Nixon." In the World War II thriller "Enemy at the Gates," starring Jude Law, he played Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. Law, whose friendship with Hoskins predated the film, recalled him as "a brilliant actor and a very sweet man. Great spirit. And he will be much missed." Hoskins never lost his down-to-earth quality, once saying that he would never accept a knighthood.

He told The Guardian in 2010 that acting allowed him "to act out all the feelings and emotions that you shouldn't have. If I didn't get rid of it all, I'd be in a terrible state." Yet he was famously funny and self-deprecating. Hoskins once recalled how he was put on standby to play Al Capone in Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables," until Robert De Niro agreed to take the role. The director sent Hoskins a check for 20,000 pounds to thank him for his time.

"I phoned him up and I said 'Brian, if you've ever got any other films you don't want me in, son, you just give me a call,'" Hoskins said. In 2012 Hoskins announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was retiring from acting. His last role was as one of the seven dwarves in "Snow White & The Huntsman," starring Kristen Stewart. He is survived by his wife Linda and children Alex, Sarah, Rosa and Jack. They said in a statement: "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Bob."

Filmography 
Film 
Year , Title , Role , Notes  
1972, Up the Front, Recruiting sergeant,  
1973, The National Health, Foster,  
1975, Royal Flash, Police Constable,  
Inserts, Big Mac,  
1979, Zulu Dawn, CSM Williams,  
1980, The Long Good Friday, Harold Shand, Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role  
1982, Pink Floyd The Wall, Band manager,  
1983, The Honorary Consul, Colonel Perez, Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role  
1984, Lassiter, Inspector John Becker,  
The Cotton Club, Owney Madden,  
1985, The Woman Who Married Clark Gable, George,  
The Dunera Boys, Morrie Mendellsohn,  
Brazil, Spoor,  
1986, Sweet Liberty, Stanley Gould,  
Mona Lisa, George, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor (tied with Michel Blanc in Ménage) Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year (tied with William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor  
1987, A Prayer for the Dying, Father Michael Da Costa,  
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, James Madden, Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor  
1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actor  
The Raggedy Rawney, Darky, Also director  
1990, Heart Condition, Jack Moony,  
Mermaids, Lou Landsky,  
1991, The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, Louis Aubinard,  
Shattered, Gus Klein,  
Hook, Smee,  
The Inner Circle, Lavrentiy Beria,  
1992, Passed Away, Johnny Scanlan,  
Blue Ice, Sam Garcia,  
1993, Super Mario Bros., Mario Mario,  
The Big Freeze, Sidney,  
1995, Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture  
Balto, Boris Goosinoff, Voice  
1996, Rainbow, Frank Bailey, Also director  
The Secret Agent, Verloc,  
Michael, Vartan Malt,  
1997, Twenty Four Seven, Alan Darcy, European Film Award for Best Actor  
Spice World, Ginger Spice's disguise, Cameo  
1998, Cousin Bette, Cesar Crevel,  
1999, Parting Shots, Gerd Layton,  
Captain Jack, Jack Armistead,  
Felicia's Journey, Hilditch, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role  
A Room for Romeo Brass, Steven Laws,  
The White River Kid, Brother Edgar,  
2000, American Virgin, Joey,  
2001, Enemy at the Gates, Nikita Khrushchev,  
Last Orders, Ray "Raysie" Johnson, National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actor (shared with ensemble cast)  
2002, Where Eskimos Live, Sharkey,  
Maid in Manhattan, Lionel Bloch,  
2003, The Sleeping Dictionary, Henry, DVD Exclusive Award for Best Supporting Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie  
Den of Lions, Darius Paskevic,  
2004, Vanity Fair, Sir Pitt Crawley,  
Beyond the Sea, Charlie Maffia,  
2005, Unleashed, Bart,  
Son of the Mask, Odin, Nominated – Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor[42]  
Mrs Henderson Presents, Vivian Van Damm, National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor  
Stay, Dr. Leon Patterson,  
2006, Paris, je t'aime, Bob Leander, Segment: "Pigalle"  
The Wind in the Willows, Badger,  
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Winston, Voice  
Hollywoodland, Eddie Mannix,  
2007, Sparkle, Vince,  
Outlaw, Walter Lewis,  
Ruby Blue, Jack, Oxford International Film Festival - Best Actor  
Go Go Tales, The Baron,  
2008, Doomsday, Bill Nelson,  
2009, A Christmas Carol, Mr. Fezziwig / Old Joe, Motion capture; voice  
2010, Made in Dagenham, Albert, Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor  
2011, Will, Davey,  
2012, Outside Bet, Percy "Smudge" Smith,  
2012, Snow White and the Huntsman, Muir,  

Television 
Year , Title , Role , Notes  
1972, Villains, Charles Grindley, 3 episode  
Play for Today, Taxi driver, Episode: "The Bankrupt"  
1973, Crown Court, Freddie Dean, 3 episodes  
New Scotland Yard, Eddie Wharton, Episode: "Weight of Evidence"  
Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Parker, Episode: "Outrage"  
Play for Today, Woodbine, Episode: "Her Majesty's Pleasure"  
1974, Shoulder to Shoulder, Jack Dunn, Episode: "Outrage"  
Thick as Thieves, Dobbs, 8 episodes  
Play for Today, Blake, Episode: "Schmoedipus"  
1975, On the Move, Alf, 2 years, 100 episodes  
1976, Thriller, Sammy Draper, Episode: "Cry Terror"  
The Crezz, Detective Sergeant Marble, Episode: "A Flash of Inspiration"  
1977, Van der Valk, Johnny Palmer, Episode: "Dead on Arrival"  
Rock Follies of '77, Johnny Britten, Episode: "The Real Life"  
1978, Pennies from Heaven, Arthur Parker, 6 episodes Nominated – BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor  
1979, Of Mycenae and Men, Mr. Taramasalatopoulos, Television short  
1980, Flickers, Arnie Cole, 6 episodes  
1981, Othello, Iago, Television film - BBC  
1983, The Beggar's Opera, Beggar, Television film - BBC  
1985, Mussolini and I, Benito Mussolini, 4 episodes  
1985, The Dunera Boys, Morrie Mendellsohn, 2 episodes  
1994, The Changeling, De Flores, Television film  
World War II: When Lions Roared, Winston Churchill, Television film - NBC  
1995–1999, The Forgotten Toys, Teddy, Voice 26 episodes  
1996, Tales from the Crypt, Redmond, Episode: "Fatal Caper"  
1999, David Copperfield, Wilkins Micawber, 2 episodes  
2000, Noriega: God's Favorite, Manuel Noriega, Television film Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film  
Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Television film - Hallmark  
2001, The Lost World, Professor George Challenger, Television film - BBC  
2003, Frasier, Coach Fuller, Episode: "Trophy Girlfriend"  
The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli/Pope John XXIII, Television film  
2008, The Englishman's Boy, Damon Ira Chance, 2 episodes  
Pinocchio, Geppetto, Television film  
The Last Word Monologues, unnamed hitman, Episode: "A Bit of Private Business"  
2009, The Street, Paddy Gargan, 2 episodes International Emmy Award for Best Actor  
2011, Neverland, Smee, 2 episodes