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Norman Rodway Biography (1929-2001)

Born February 7, 1929, in Dublin, Ireland; son of Frank and Lilian Sybil (Moyles) Rodway; married Pauline Delany (divorced); married Mary Selway (divorced); married Sarah Fitzgerald Callaby (a schoolteacher, university lecturer, and cost accountant). Career: Actor. Royal Shakespeare Company, member of the company, 1966--. Member: Gerry's Club. Addresses: Contact: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6BB, England.

Nationality

Irish

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor

Birth Details

February 7, 1929

Dublin, Ireland

Death Details

March 13, 2001

Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Mannion, The Seventh Step, Opera House, Cork, Ireland, 1953
• Giovanni, The Burnt Flower-Bed, Globe Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 1958
• The messenger, Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, 1959
• Brick, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eblana Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1960
• Title role, Stephen D, Dublin Festival, Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1962then St. Martin's Theatre, London, England, 1963
• Billy Beavis, The Poker Session, Dublin Festival, Dublin, Ireland,1963then Globe Theatre, 1964
• Lopakhin, The Cherry Orchard, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, England, 1965
• Henry Hotspur, Henry IV, Part I, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1966
• Pistol, Henry IV, Part II, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
• Feste, Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
• Spurio, The Revenger's Tragedy, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
• Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967
• Edmund, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968
• Thersites, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968
• Don Pedro, Much Ado about Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968
• Thersites, Troilus and Cressida, Aldwych Theatre, London, England,1969
• Bates, Silence [double-bill with Landscape ], Aldwych Theatre, 1969
• Tom Quar'lous, Bartholomew Fair, Aldwych Theatre, 1969
• Spurio, The Revenger's Tragedy, Aldwych Theatre, 1969
• Title role, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970
• Philip the Bastard, King John, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970
• Snout, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970
• Trinculo, The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970
• James Usheen, The Patrick Pearse Motel, Dublin Festival, Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, then Queen's Theatre, London, England, both 1971
• George, Stag Party, Dublin Festival, Olympia Theatre, 1972
• Dazzle, London Assurance, Albery Theatre, London, England, 1972
• Andrey, The Three Sisters, Greenwich Theatre, London, England, 1973
• Ben Butley (title role), Butley, Palace Theatre, Watford, England,1973
• Bassov, Summerfolk, Aldwych Theatre, 1974
• Holofernes, Love's Labour's Lost, Aldwych Theatre, 1975
• Muratov, The Zykovs, Aldwych Theatre, 1976
• Harry Hope, The Iceman Cometh, Aldwych Theatre, 1976
• Lebedev, Ivanov, Aldwych Theatre, 1976
• Sir George Thunder, Wild Oats, Aldwych Theatre, 1976then Piccadilly Theatre, London, England, 1977later Aldwych Theatre, 1979
• Protasson, Children of the Sun, Aldwych Theatre, 1979
• Seamus Shields, The Shadow of a Gunman, Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1979
• Translations, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, England, 1993
• Appeared in The Seagull, Olivier Theatre, London, England. Appeared as Clive Root, The Complaisant Lover, as Parke Ballantyne, Critic's Choice, as George, Epitaph for George Dillon, as Christopher, I Am a Camera, and as Jerry Ryan, Two for the Seesaw, all Dublin, Ireland.
• Major Tours
• Don Pedro, Much Ado about Nothing, U.S. cities, 1969
• Bassov, Summerfolk, U.S. cities, 1973
• Film Appearances
• Conor Heaphy, This Other Eden, Regal, 1959
• Frank Brigstock, A Question of Suspense, Columbia, 1961
• Lavery, The Quare Fellow, Astor/Ajay, 1962
• Donald Saunders, The Webster Boy (also known as The Middle of Nowhere), Regal, 1962
• Michael Lucas, Murder in Eden, Colorama/Schoenfeld, 1962
• Kegs, Ambush in Leopard Street, Luckwell, 1962
• Father Healey, Johnny Nobody, Medallion, 1965
• Husband, Four in the Morning, West One, 1965
• Henry "Hotspur" Percy, Chimes at Midnight (also known as Falstaff and Campanadas a medianoche), Peppercorn-Wormser, 1967
• Dick, The Penthouse, Paramount, 1967
• Nicholas, I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name, Regional, 1967
• Ryan, The Final Option (also known as Who Dares Win), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1982
• Aristotle Quance, Tai-Pan, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
• Adolf Hitler, The Empty Mirror, Lions Gate Films, 1996
• Werner Noth, Mother Night, Fine Line Features, 1996
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Tycoon, BBC, 1968
• Cummings, Reilly: Ace of Spies, Thames Television and Euston Films, 1983then PBS, 1984
• Marquis of Queensbury, Oscar, BBC, 1986
• Miniseries
• Joab, The Story of David, 1976
• Bryce, Out, Euston Films and Thames Television, 1978
• Himself, Playing Shakespeare, London Weekend Television, 1984
• Charles Brett, "The Bretts," Central Independent Television, broadcast onMasterpiece Theatre, PBS, both 1987
• Charles Brett, "The Bretts II," Central Independent Television, broadcaston Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, both 1989
• Coroner, The Lakes, BBC, 1997
• Movies
• Cage, The Girl Who Loved Robots, BBC, 1965
• Danton, Danton's Death, BBC, 1977
• Apemantus, Timon of Athens (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: Timon of Athens), BBC-2, 1981
• Psychiatrist, Sakharov, Incorporated Television Corporation, 1984
• Cleon of Tarsus, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre), BBC-2, 1984
• William Hopkin, Coming Through, Central Independent Television, 1985
• Ernest, "Not as Bad as They Seem," Nobody Here but Us Chickens, Channel 4, 1989
• Captain "Blueskin" Blake, King of the Wind, Harlech Television, 1990
• Spartan general, The War That Never Ends, BBC, 1991
• Dr. Gilchrist, The Mirror Crack'd (also known as The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side), BBC, Arts and Entertainment, and Network 7, 1992
• Hagarty, Vicious Circle (also known as Cast a Cold Eye), BBC, 1998
• Specials
• Peter Ingram, Appointment with a Killer (also known as A Midsummer Nightmare), ABC, 1975
• Corinthian messenger, Oedipus the King, BBC, 1984broadcast on The Theban Plays, PBS, 1988
• Major Plank, "Totleigh Towers," Jeeves and Wooster, Granada Television, later broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, both 1993
• Also appeared in St. Joan.
• Episodic
• Edmunds, "Lady Luck," The Sweeney, Thames Television and Euston Films, 1976
• "Cheap Day," Oxbridge Blues, BBC-2, 1984later broadcast on Arts and Entertainment, 1986
• Roland Marshall, "Deceived by Flight," Inspector Morse, Series IV(also known as Inspector Morse), Central Television, 1987broadcast asan episode of Mystery!, PBS, 1991
• Morry Machin, "Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation," Rumpole of the Bailey, Series V (also known as Rumpole of the Bailey), Thames Television, c. 1988broadcast as an episode of Mystery!, PBS, 1989