Daniel Massey
DANIEL MASSEY Since starting in repertory at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, Daniel Massey has pursued a varied international career. London credits include Charlie in Joan Littlewood's musical Make Me An Offer, Charles Surface in The School For Scandal (1961), Jack Absolute in The Rivals for H.M. Tennent at the Haymarket (1966), Ibsen's Rosmersholm (1977), Lytton Strachey in Peter Luke's Bloomsbury at the Phoenix (1974). At the National Theatre (1978-81), Von Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back From the War, the original production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, Shaw's The Philanderer, Jack Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman (for which he won the SWET Award for Actor of the Year in 1981), the Captain in Calderon's The Mayor of Zalamea. At the Royal Shakespeare Company (1983-84), Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, the Duke in Measure For Measure, Joe in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, Nikolai in Stephen Poliakoff's Breaking the Silence and Trebell in John Barton's production of Granville-Barker's Waste. He starred as Ben Stone in Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre (1987), Torvald in Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Haymarket Theatre, Leichester (1989). Recent theatre work includes Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost (RSC 1993), General Burgoyne in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (NT 1994), and Furtwängler in Taking Sides at Chichester and the Criterion Theatre, London for which he was made stage actor of the year by The Variety Club and Joint Actor of the year by The London's Critic's Circle, (1995). On Broadway he created the role of Georg Nowak in Harold Prince's production of the Bock-Harnick musical She Loves Me with Barbara Cook (1963). Extensive television work includes The Golden Bowl by Henry James, Sartre's Roads to Freedom, Intimate Contact, Alan Bleasdale's GBH for Channel 4. His many film credits include Noel Coward in Robert Wise's Star with Julie Andrews for 20th Century Fox, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bio as of February, 2008. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Performance - September, 1996 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)