David Parfitt Movies and Career Information

David Parfitt (born 8 July 1958, Sunderland) is a film producer and actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love. He was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999, and retains strong links with his home city and is a supporter of Sunderland AFC. He vociferously endorses the city of Sunderland wherever he goes. He played Peter Harrison in the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequel ...And Mother Makes Five. He played the original Tim Beecham, an old friend of Nigel Pargetter in the BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers. Tim was a 'Hooray Henry' and was known for persistently failing his law exams. Parfitt began his stage career with Sunderland Empire Theatre Society in 1969 but he gave up acting in the late-1980's to concentrate on production, and has been working as an independent film producer for the past 20 years and is, at present, living in Brixton with his wife Liz Parfitt and his three children Bill, Thomas and Max Parfitt. He is Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and has produced (or associate produced) many British films including Henry V, Peter's Friends, Swan Song,