Background
David was born on March 15, 1945, in Bedford, England in the family of Ivor Firth and Beatrice (Jenkins) Coleman.
David was born on March 15, 1945, in Bedford, England in the family of Ivor Firth and Beatrice (Jenkins) Coleman.
David was educated at Bedford Modern School, the University of Sussex and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
During David's stage career, Firth was in the cast of King Lear (Old Vic, 1988), The Hunting of the Snark (1991), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Barbican Theatre, 1992), Jubilee (Barbican Theatre, 1992), Assassins (Donmar 1992), Knickerbocker Holiday (Barbican, 1993), Follies (Brighton, 1993), Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1994), Love Life (Barbican Theatre, 1995), Passion (Queens, 1996), The Fix (Donmar 1997), Die Fledermaus (Arts, 1998), On A Clear Day (Barbican Theatre, 1998), Good Grief (Yvonne Arnaud, 1998), HMS Pinafore (Royal Festival Hall, 1999), 'Susanna's Secret (Drill Hall, 1999), Jubilee (Her Majesty's and BBC Radio 3, 1999), Der Kuhandel (Barbican and BBC Radio 3, 2000), Journey's End (Drill Hall, 2000), Cenerentola (Music Theatre London, 2001), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric, 2001), Relatively Speaking (Secombe Theatre Sutton, 2002), Our Song (tour, 2003), Coward and Others (2004), The Man Who... (Orange Tree Richmond, 2005), The Shell Seekers (tour, 2006), Yellow Lines (Oval House, 2007), Park Avenue (Lilian Bayliss Theatre, 2008), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre, 2008), and Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall, 2011).
Firth has also performed in a number of films and television series, and is credited as a writer on The Return of Shelley, Home James! and Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself.
David married Julia Elizabeth Gould.
