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Roger Rees

Highest Rated: 81% Star 80 (1983)

Lowest Rated: 8% Survivor (2015)

Birthday: May 5, 1944

Birthplace: Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

This acclaimed classical stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company possessed soulful deep-set eyes and sharp features that made him ideal for the title role in the RSC adaptation of Dickens's "Nicholas Nickleby" on the London and Broadway stages and television. His performance earned a Tony and an Olivier Award and an Emmy nomination. Rees won acclaim for his portrayal of an art critic whose visit to an elderly painter (played by Laurence Olivier) causes problems in the PBS adaptation of John Fowles' "The Ebony Tower" (1987) He joined the hit TV comedy "Cheers" for the 1989-90 season as Kirstie Alley's suitor, the single-minded international financier and corporate raider Robin Colcord and co-starred in the short-lived sci-fi series "M.A.N.T.I.S" (Fox, 1994-97). This led on to an ongoing career as a character actor on film, TV and stage, cut short too soon when he died of cancer on July 10, 2015, at the age of 71.

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Highest rated movies

81% 70% Star 80
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76% 85% Frida
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73% 74% Next Stop Wonderland
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68% 33% The Treatment
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67% 60% William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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67% 50% Sudden Manhattan
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67% Almost Perfect
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67% 77% Mountains of the Moon
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62% 37% Game 6
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60% 36% The Substance of Fire
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
8% 32% Survivor Dr. Emil Balan (Character) - 2015
67% No Score Yet Almost Perfect Kai Lee (Character) - 2011
29% 22% Happy Tears Antiques Dealer (Character) $22.4K 2009
25% 46% The Narrows Prof. Reyerson (Character) - 2008
20% 40% The Invasion Yorish (Character) $15.1M 2007
No Score Yet 49% Falling for Grace Andrew Barrington Sr. (Character) - 2006
17% 50% Going Under Unknown (Character) - 2006
68% 33% The Treatment Leighton Proctor (Character) $82.7K 2006
12% 43% Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties Mr. Hobbs (Character) $28.4M 2006
21% 51% The Pink Panther Larocque (Character) $82.2M 2006
62% 37% Game 6 Jack Haskins (Character) $128.1K 2005
20% 55% Crazy Like a Fox Nat Banks (Character) $4.7K 2004
No Score Yet 68% The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 3: From Sark to Finish Unknown (Character) - 2003
76% 85% Frida Guillermo Kahlo (Character) $25.8M 2002
50% 67% The Emperor's Club Mr. Castle (Character) $14.1M 2002
40% 37% The Scorpion King King Pheron (Character) $90.3M 2002
45% 39% Return to Never Land Edward (Voice) $48.4M 2002
No Score Yet 69% Blackmale Bill Fontaine (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 60% The Crossing Gen. Hugh Mercer (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom Narrator - 1999
No Score Yet 82% Double Platinum Marc Reckler (Character) - 1999
67% 60% William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Peter Quince (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 60% The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Unknown (Character) - 1999
73% 74% Next Stop Wonderland Ray Thornback (Character) $3.4M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trouble on the Corner Mr. McMurtry (Character) - 1997
67% 50% Sudden Manhattan Murphy (Character) $2.7K 1996
60% 36% The Substance of Fire Max (Character) $81.6K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Possession of Michael D. Robin Banks (Character) - 1995
42% 81% Robin Hood: Men in Tights Sheriff of Rottingham (Character) $35.3M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tower Mr. Littlehill (Character) - 1993
14% 21% Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot Parnell (Character) $26.6M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charles & Diana: Unhappily Ever After Prince Charles (Character) - 1992
29% 50% If Looks Could Kill Augustus Steranko (Character) $6.3M 1991
67% 77% Mountains of the Moon Edgar Papworth (Character) $1.4M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Return of Sam McCloud Jason Cross (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ebony Tower David Williams (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 100% God's Outlaw William Tyndale (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 75% A Christmas Carol Fred Holywell/Narrator (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Saigon: Year of the Cat Donald Henderson (Character) - 1983
81% 70% Star 80 Aram Nicholas (Character) - 1983

TV

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57% 92% Forever Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
95% 89% Elementary Alistair Moore (Guest Star) 2012 2014
No Score Yet 88% The Middle Mr. Glover (Guest Star) 2013
93% 90% The Good Wife Dr. Todd Grossman (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 64% The Cleveland Show Unknown (Guest Voice) 2010
No Score Yet 76% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Unknown (Guest Star) 2007
81% 95% The West Wing Lord John Marbury (Guest Star) 2000-2002 2005
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
79% No Score Yet The Education of Max Bickford Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
19% No Score Yet Three Sisters Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
93% 95% Oz Jack Aldridge (Guest Star) 2001
33% No Score Yet Boston Common Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
1997
45% No Score Yet M.A.N.T.I.S. Unknown (Character) 1994
94% 91% My So-Called Life Vic Racine (Guest Star) 1994
87% 95% Cheers Robin Colcord (Guest Star) 1989-1991 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected James Howgill (Character) 1984