Roger Davenport
Trained at LAMDA 1964–67, moved away from acting from 1979–2005, during which time he had careers as advertising executive and theatre manager before becoming a writer.
Past productions
- Martin, Brimstone and Treacle, Haymarket Theatre Company
- Captain Hawtree, Caste, Haymarket Theatre Company
- Ernest Beevers, Time and the Conways, Bristol Old Vic
- Nick, Bedroom Farce, Nottingham Playhouse Company
- Mark, Kennedy’s Children
- Eleven parts, The Golden Pathway Annual
- Don John, Much Ado About Nothing
- Scrivener/Sir Walter Herbert, Richard III
- Paris, Romeo and Juliet, St George’s Theatre Company
- Sebastian, Twelfth Night
- John Danby, Dry Rot, Bristol Old Vic Trust
- Tom Gradgrind, Hard Times
- Lancelot Gobbo, The Merchant of Venice
- Toby, The Last Romantic, Actors’ Company
- Arnold, Clever Soldiers
- Cyprian Phipps, Bloomsbury
- Captain Bluntschli, Arms and the Man, Derby Playhouse Company
- Wishee Washee, Aladdin
- Sandy Tyyrell, Hay Fever, Derby Playhouse Company
- Doctor Livesey, Treasure Island
- Joseph Keyston, Butley, Derby Playhouse Company
- Dr Carrasco, Man of La Mancha
- Bob Phillips, How the Other Half Loves, Derby Playhouse Company
- Oliver, As You Like It, Derby Playhouse
- Mr Savegar, No, No, Not Yet!, Palace Theatre Trust (Southend and Westcliff) Ltd
- Jan Warwick, The Unexpected Guest
- Givola, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Sergeant of the Guard / Smiler, Jack and the Beanstalk
- Laflotte, Danton’s Death
- The Sing-Song Sergeant, Within Two Shadows
- Salerio, The Merchant of Venice
- Lord Darlington, Lady Windermere’s Fan
- Bob Acres, The Rivals
- Constant, Lock Up Your Daughters, Worcester Repertory Company
- The Enemy Leader, The Unknown Soldier and his Wife, Worcester Repertory Company
- Feste, Twelfth Night
- Parliamentarian (Cromwell), The Trial and Execution of Charles I, Candida Plays Ltd
- Siro, Mandrake
- Puss, Puss in Boots, Candida Plays Ltd
- Seaford (Wilfe) 247, Chips With Everything, Cambridge Theatre Company
- Smith, The Recruiting Officer, Cambridge Theatre Company
- Sir Benjamin Backbite, The School for Scandal, Candida Plays Ltd
- King Goosegog / Landlord Popplewick, Mother Goose, The Marlowe Company
- Siro, Mandrake
- Marat, The Promise, Candida Plays Ltd
- Nicholas Holroyd, Bell, Book and Candle, Candida Plays Ltd
- Nicholas, The Sleeping Prince, Martin Tickner (for Firmont Plays Ltd.) in association with George Baker Plays Ltd.
- The Archbishop of Canterbury/Editor of the Times, Portrait of a Queen, The Marlowe Company
- Michel, The Creeper
- Dennis Hanks / General Robert E. Lee / John Wilkes Booth / Stephen Douglas / William Herndon / William Stanton, The President
- The Survivors
- Luke, The Royal Pardon, Beaford Festival and Dartington Hall Trust