Leigh Lawson Movies and Career Information

Leigh Lawson (born 21 July 1945 in Atherstone, Warwickshire, England) is a film and stage actor, director, and writer. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Lawson has acted in film and television since the early 1970s, directed plays in the West End and on Broadway, and worked with National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and film directors such as Roman Polanski and Franco Zeffirelli. He was quoted as saying that the only time in his career when he didn't feel he should be somewhere else doing something else was when he was with the RSC. His portrayals in films include Bernardo in Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) and Alec d'Urberville in Tess (1979). He played the leading role as Alan Lomax in the television drama series, Travelling Man (1984–1985), and guest starred in a variety of television series, such as The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), Disraeli (1978), Feuer und Schwert - Die Legende von Tristan und Isolde (1982), The Ray Bradbury Theatre (1988), and Silent Witness (2005–2007). Lawson's talents also lay in writing and directing. In 1999, he co-wrote and directed the musical If Love Were All, which tells of the friendship between Gertrude Lawrence and Noël