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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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Filmography
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| 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 |
| 18% | 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 |
| 41% | 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 |
| 74% | 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% | 44% | Sudden Manhattan | Murphy (Character) | $2.7K | 1996 |
| 60% | 33% | 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 |
| 65% | 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/ |
- | 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
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 65% | The Cleveland Show | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 84% | 73% | 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% | 96% | 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% | 92% | My So-Called Life | Vic Racine (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| 87% | 94% | Cheers | Robin Colcord (Guest Star) | 1989-1991 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | James Howgill (Character) | 1984 |