Actors & Writers London: David Hampshire

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David Hampshire was born in Kingston, Surrey and trained at the Italia Conti Stage School. He started his career aged 12, in 1966, when he landed the title role in the BBC TV series Jennings. Since then has played everything from Ugly Sister in Panto to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre, London.

David has also shot over 50 UK and foreign commercials.

Height: 6ft

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Fair

Playing age: 45-55

Music & Dance: Modern Dance, Jazz, Tenor (to top B flat - Ian Adam Trained)

Bestheatre
Ulica 15 Aprila 7,
1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Email: Bestheatre

In December 2003, David formed the British English-Speaking Theatre, (BEST) Slovenia. He is staging Murder Mysteries in English and Slovene and has recently concluded their 2007 Look Back in Anger Theatre in Education tour. They are presenting Graham Swannell's witty and penetrating drama/comedy A State of Affairs in Ljubljana. This play will also be staged by our Spanish subsidiary, BestSpain, on the Costa Blanca, Spain in Autumn 2007. For further information please visit www.bestheatre.com

Production	Role	Director	Company / Venue

Footballers' Wives	Vince Palmer	Robert Bangura	Shed Productions/ITV 1
Winners and Losers	David Schulten	Paul Boorman	Maverick/Channel 4
New Tricks	Alan Wearing	Paul Seed	Wall to Wall / BBC
Midsomer Murders	Cabbie	Sarah Hellings	Bentley Productions/ ITV 1
Trevor's World of Sport	Ted Greaves	Andy Hamilton	Hat Trick / BBC
Doctors	Alex Rose	Charlotte Conquest	BBC TV
Family Affairs	Dr Connell	Robert Gabriel	Thames TV
The Bill	D.S.E. Eddie Scott	Jeremy Silberston	Thames TV
Dodgem	Roger Sorrell	Christine Secombe	BBC1
The Age Thing	Tim	Chris Gernon	BBC TV
Wogans Guide to being an Old Geezer	Commentator	Ben Kellet	BBC TV
Noel's House Party	Gotcha Team (2 Series)	Ben Kellet & Guy Freeman	BBC TV
Lenny Goes To Town	Colonel Bashing	Guy Freeman	BBC TV
Our Tune	Father		BBC TV
Love for Lydia	George Holland	Tony Dow	LWT
Tom Brown's Schooldays	Diggs	Gareth Davies	BBC TV
Jennings	Jennings	Johnny Downes	BBC TV

Maternity	Dr. Hourtin		Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
A State of Affairs	Terence/Jack/Allan/Ellis		Hen & Chickens, London
Jean Valjean/Courfeyrac/Brujon	Les Miserables		Palace Theatre, London
Pirates of Penzance	Police Sergeant		Drury Lane, London
Move over Mrs. Markham	Henry Lodge		Palace, Westcliff
Blood Brothers	Narrator		Palace, Westcliff
Bob Merrick	Treasure Island		Theatre Royal, Norwich
Godspell	John the Baptist		Palace, Westcliff
West Side Story	Diesel		Haymarket, Leicester
South Pacific	Stewpot		Connaught, Worthing
Other appearances include: Stop the World - I want to get off! (National Tour) Billy (Drury Lane, London) Chicago (Library, Manchester) Evita (Prince Edward, London) The Muppet Show (ITV) The Morecambe and Wise Show (2) (BBC TV/Thames TV) The Royal Variety Performance Pantomime appearances include: Silly Billy in Mother Goose (Civic, Darlington) Chop in Aladdin (Arts, Cambridge) Billy Goose in Aladdin (London Palladium) Ugly Sister in Cinderella (Library, Manchester) Out of Water (Ignu Films) The Pirates of Penzance (Universal) Oliver (Columbia) Fiddler on the Roof (MGM) Goodbye Mr. Chips (MGM) A variety of roles for BBC Radio Repertory Department including The Wheel on the School and title role in Sikalume and the Assagai. Guest co-hosted Nightline: late night phone-in show on LBC London Radio. Work as actor/presenter/facilitator includes: English Team-building workshops for Mobitel, KRKA, and Chamber of Commerce. (Slovenia) 2005. RADA in Business, 'Scrutiny' Training, Forum Theatre 2004 HSBC Training Video 2004 MFI Training Video 2003 The Empress Building Launch 2003 Mobil Oil British Gas Midland Bank Nationwide Building Society Friends Provident Society Safeway Stores Shell Initiative 2000 (Series of Inter-Active Drama - workshop presentations in Holland) 3-Com, (NEC Birmingham, Computer Show Presentation) Vauxhall Vectra Car Launch 95, New model presentation Vectra Drive 96, Nationwide safety presentation Walls 'Taste-Sensation' Inter-Active Exhibition launch.(Earls Court & Nationwide tour) Principal performer - Fiat Cinquecento launch - Royal Albert Hall MacIntyre Hudson Lawyers, NGJ Solicitors, 2001 Annual Conference. World Cluedo Championship Convention, Sherlock Holmes Hotel. Various Murder-Mystery events.

David Hampshire's first original short play An eye for an eye was awarded 1st prize in the awl Spring competition 2002, and his second entry, Briefcase Encounter, (in which he played the role of Alec Harvey and which he also directed) came first in the Autumn competition 2003. His short play Up Or Down? won the Summer 2004 competition. His sketch, ...Kin-Nel! was featured in the Spring 2005 competition. His recent sketch The Waitrose Wing won awl's "Another Fine Mess" competition in July 2007.

Four of his short plays have been runners-up in various awl competitions:

Cross Words (Christmas 2007)
25 reasons On a Quiet Day (Christmas 2006)
The Actor and the Extra (Christmas 2005)
Where There's a Will (Spring 2004)

David's one-act play Christmas Presence received a rehearsed reading at awl in Feburary 2005. An earlier, shorter version of the play was read by the group in January 2003.

He has directed awl readings of:

Knickers by Max India
Chutney Mary by Max India
Joe Orton's Last Laugh by Robert Eddison and Robert J Francis
A Night to Remember by Jacqui Dickson
In the Post by John Petherbridge, as part of awl's first public showcase at Bullion Room Theatre, Hackney Empire, in November 2003.

His most recent acting credits include:

Bekko Bingham in Y-Fronts by Max India
Dr Mulcahy in England's Hall by Michael Johnson
Gareth in Church Outing by Howard Hale
Alec Telford in Don't Look Too Deep by Gareth Pilkington
Grant Wilson in For the Love of Art by Carolyn Pertwee (which he also directed)
Peter Willis in Lifestyles by Lesley North
Dennis in We Are Family by David Lane
Frank Harris in Turn of the Century by James Sherriffs (which he also directed)
Chris Cavendish in Public Hero by Harry Saks
various parts in Ruth by Sue Whitmore

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