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Dateline: 30th July, 2007
John Normington (1937 - 2007) Actor John Normington has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70. Born in Cheshire, he made his first professional stage appearance at Oldham Rep in a production of The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton. His last performance was as Billy Rice in The Entertainer at the Old Vic in March of this year, but was forced to withdraw from the production in April because of ill health. He joined the RSC under Peter Hall in 1962 and stayed until 1966. At the RSC he appeared in The Wars of the Roses and in the world premiere production of Pinter's The Homecoming (1965) both in Stratford and on Broadway. He returned to the RSC under the directorship of Adrian Noble and then Michael Boyd, with his most recent performance being as the Fool in King Lear in Bill Alexander's 2004 production, with Corin Redgrave as Lear. His work with the National Theatre also falls into two periods. He joined Peter Hall there in the 1970s, playing in the premiere of Amadeus (directed by Hall in 1979) and Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, directed by Michael Bogdanov in 1980. He returned to the National in recent years, beginning with Nicholas Hytner's 2001 production of The Winter's Tale and ending with Peter Gill's 2006 revival of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker. His other work includes performances at the Royal Court, the Almeida, the Bush, the Hampstead Theatre and the Sheffield Crucible. He also made numerous TV and film appearances, among them Yes Prime Minister and Inspector Morse on TV and, on film, in Stardust, The Thirty-Nine Steps and A Private Function.
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