Alan Dobie

Alan Dobie is a retired English actor whose work in theater, television and film spanned more than 50 years and included membership in the Royal Shakespeare Company. Born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire, he trained at the London Old Vic Theatre School and made his first stage appearance at the Old Vic in 1952 as the Page to Paris in Romeo and Juliet. In 1963 he took the roles of both God and Jesus in the York Mystery Plays, and his Broadway debut came the same year as Corporal Hill in Chips with Everything. His stage credits include Look Back in Anger and Serjeant Musgrave's Dance at the Royal Court, and Hamlet and Waiting for Godot in the West End; he also directed The Merry Wives of Windsor. On television he appeared in War and Peace (1972), Hard Times (1977), Kessler (1981) and The Plane Makers, and starred as the Victorian detective in Cribb.