Sidney Livingstone

Sidney Livingstone is an English stage, television and film actor who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after earlier jobs as a chef's apprentice, a salesman and a plumber's merchant, graduating in 1969. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, he began his career on stage and was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company by 1973, appearing in productions directed by Trevor Nunn such as Richard II, Hamlet, Timon of Athens and The Blue Angel. His early screen work included The Ragman's Daughter (1972) and the television film Antony and Cleopatra, in which he played Mardian in 1974. Other television credits include Jeeves and Wooster, Crown Court, Shine on Harvey Moon, Minder and Boon, and he played Roly Lamas Dir in The Crucifer of Blood (1991). He appeared in Oklahoma! (1999) and starred as Brian Reader in Hatton Garden: the Heist in 2016. Stage roles included Arcadia and Acorn Antiques: The Musical!.