Norman Rodway (1929 - 2001)

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Mr Norman Rodway (Male)

Nationality: English

Born: 7 February 1929

Died: 13 March 2001

Actor. Growing up in Dublin, Rodway joined the newly-formed Globe Theatre Company based at The Gas Company Theatre in Dunlaoghaire. He become the company's business manager in 1954 alongside Jack McGowran and Godfrey Quigley until they ceased operations in 1959. Rodway then appeared in a Royal Court Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Cock-A-Doodle Dandy and, in 1963, settled in London permanently. Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1966 Rodway would go on to work with company until 1997, appearing in the title role of Richard III in 1970 to great critical acclaim. Throughout his career, Rodway also appeared on other major UK stages including the Nottingham Playhouse, Chichester, the Donmar Warehouse, National Theatre, and Almeida and in many popular television shows including Jeeves And Wooster, Miss Marple, Rumpole Of The Bailey, The Protectors and Inspector Morse. Perhaps his best remembered film appearance was as Hotspur in Orson Well's 1966 Chimes at Midnight. Rodway made more than 300 broadcasts for BBC radio, including Brian Friel's The Faith Healer, for which he won the 1980 Pye Radio Award for Best Actor.

Training and Education

Undergraduate degree

Trinity College Dublin   (Training & Education | Est. Unknown)

University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Appears In

Silence (Aldwych Theatre) (1969)

Bates (Age: mid thirties, Male)

Performer

The Birthday Party (1970)

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Performer

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Sources

Simon Trowbridge's The Company

Simon Trowbridge, The Company: a Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Editions Albert Creed, 2013)

Biography

This source provides a comprehensive index and brief biographies for key actors, directors, designers and writers who have worked regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rodway's entry can be found on pp. 401-402. An entry for Harold Pinter can be found on pp. 375-377.

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/17/guardianobituaries.filmnews

URL

Obituary by Dennis Barker for The Guardian, 17/3/2001