Richard Hope
Biography
Richard Hope is a British actor who got his first professional television part in 1978 from Laurence Olivier, and became known for playing the doltish junior officer Hooper in Brideshead Revisited. He is best known as Harris Pascoe in the drama Poldark. On stage he played Ford Prefect in the first production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, made his West End debut in 1001 Nights in 1980, and spent years with the National Theatre, where his roles included Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace and Levin in Anna Karenina. His film work includes the 1987 thriller Bellman and True. Later stage roles included Hector in The History Boys in 2015 and Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black in the West End from 2018 to 2019. Television work includes Poirot, The Bill and Doctor Who, and he has recorded Doctor Who audios for Big Finish, one of which won a BBC Audio Drama Award in 2017.
73years old
Turns 74 on October 11in 333 days
- Born Kettering
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 38 years1987 to 2025
Every film, newest first
- 2025CleanerIMDb rating 5.2
- 2017Finding Your FeetIMDb rating 6.8
- 2013Last LoveIMDb rating 6.7
- 2001My Brother TomIMDb rating 6.8
- 1987Bellman and TrueIMDb rating 6.7
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First role
Richard Hope's first professional TV part came in 1978 when Laurence Olivier cast him in an episode of Laurence Olivier Presents titled Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
A first
In the first stage production of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hope took the part of Ford Prefect with Ken Campbell's The Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool.
Getting ready for a role
In 2000, Hope learned to wrestle under coach Geoff Thompson for Jim Cartwright's Hard Fruit at the Royal Court Theatre.
A first
In 2010, Hope took on Max Kellerman in Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre, his first musical part, and remained in it for eighteen months.
Behind the camera
Hope was associate director of the Shared Experience production of Anna Karenina, which toured internationally to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Lyric Theatre.
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Worked with
Richard Hope made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Michael Caine's page
Timothy Spall's page
Clive Owen's page
Celia Imrie's page
Imelda Staunton's page
David Hayman's page
Richard LoncraineDirector, 2 films, 1987 to 2017
All films by Richard Loncraine
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