#Roger allam series#

They’ve even given him a nice classic Citroen DS to cruise around in, like Morse’s Jaguar.

#Roger allam series#

The series is set in gorgeous Aix-en-Provence, and the judge is not unlike a French Inspector Morse. He’s a sophisticated soul from a rich family of grain merchants with an eye for fine art and spotting the flaw in a wrong ’un’s alibi. The role of Judge Antoine Verlaque in these adaptions of the ML Longworth could almost have been created for Allam. As in 2022, Roger Allams age is 68 years. Born on October 26, 1953, Roger Allam hails from England, United Kingdom.

He played Douglas Richardson in Cabin Pressure. With his grumpy but civilised and ineffably upper-middle-class manner, Allam infuses any role fortunate to have found him like a blend of Chris Patten and those much missed late actors Geoffrey Palmer and Robert Stephens. Actor who is perhaps best known for his stage work in Les Miserables, Privates on Parade, and Henry IV.

He’s in demand at the moment, which is a good thing, but you rather wonder whether producers are just “reaching for the Allam” in the way that inadequate cooks reach for the Schwartz jar of mixed herbs and throw a handful into whatever doomed concoction is disintegrating before their very senses on the hob. If the show is mediocre he will make it more palatable, as with Endeavour and Game of Thrones, and if the rest of it is great he will help render it sublime, as with latter series of The Thick of It, and the radio show he does with Joanna Lumley, Conversations from a Long Marriage. Below we countdown to Roger Allam upcoming birthday.One useful guide as to whether any given contemporary British television drama is worth watching is to see if Roger Allam is in it. Roger Allam will celebrate 69th birthday on a Wednesday 26th of October 2022. 🎂 Upcoming BirthdayĬurrently, Roger Allam is 68 years, 10 months and 17 days old. Roger married Rebecca Saire and he has a son named William Allam. This is part of what a theatre culture means and it is something few New York actors would have the sense of security even to dream of doing.' Family Life Nor did he consider his decision a particularly courageous one. In the closing chapter of his Timebends autobiography (1987) Arthur Miller writes of Allam: 'To play Adrian.in the 1986 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Archbishop's Ceiling, Roger Allam gave up the leading role as Javert in the monster hit Les Misérables because he had done it over sixty times and thought my play more challenging for him at that moment of his career. He plays the crime novelist Nicholas Hardiment, who is bewitched by London journalist Tamara Drewe, played by Gemma Arterton. Allam has also reteamed with Stephen Frears in Tamara Drewe, the film version of Posy Simmond's popular comic strip. Music will consist of an one-off performance by cellist Friederike Fechner and pianist Mathias Husmann. Allam presented Michael Frayn at the 2013 Olivier Awards with a Special Lifetime Award which was aired by ITV1. Mariah Gale and Roger Allam will perform readings at the special memorial concert to mark the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London. Scorpio is Roger Allam’s zodiac sign, according to astrologers. Douglas Richardson was his character in Cabin Pressure. The actor is most remembered for his stage performances in Henry IV, Privates on Parade, and Les Misérables. In 2013 he played the role of Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London alongside Colin Morgan as Ariel. Famous actor Roger Allam was born in the United Kingdom on October 26, 1953. In April 2012 he also starred as Uncle Vanya in the play by Anton Chekhov at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In March 2019, the show's sixth season had concluded on ITV, was scheduled for broadcast in the summer in the United States, and had been recommissioned for a seventh season to be set in 1970.

By 2018 Allam had portrayed his central character in five additional well received series, which are also aired in America as part of the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series. In January 2012, he starred in the first series of Endeavour, the prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse, playing the gruff but kind-hearted Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, young Endeavour Morse's mentor in a 1960s Oxford.