Background
PASCO, Richard was born on July 18, 1926 in Barnes. Son of Cecil George and Phyllis (n£e Widdison) Pasco.
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Richard Edward Pasco
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Colet Court and King's College School, Wimbledon, Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career
The Entertainer (New York) 1958, Moscow Youth Festival in Look Back in Anger 1959, Teresa of Avila (Dublin Theatre Festival and Vaudeville) 1961, Henry V, Love's Labour’s Lost (Bristol Old Vic, Old Vic and tour to Europe) 1964; Hamlet, Bristol Old Vic, 1965, Measure for Measure, Peer Gynt, Man and Superman, Hamlet 1966; toured United States of America and Europe 1967; joined R.S.C. 1969; roles include: Polixenes in The Winter's Tale, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Buckingham in Henry VIII 1969, Major Barbara, Richard II, Duchess of Malfi 1971, Becket in Murder in the Catherdral, Medraut in the Island of the Mighty 1972, Richard and Bolingbroke in Richard II 1973-1974; The Marrying of Ann Leete 1975, Jack Tanner in Man and Superman 1977, Trigorin in The Seagull 1978, Timon in Timon of Athens 1980, Clarence in Richard III 1980, in The Forest 1981, La Ronde 1982, joined National Theatre 1987: roles: Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author 1987, Pavel in Fathers and Sons 1987; tours with R.S.C. to Japan, Australia 1970, Japan 1972; Association Artist of R.S.C. since 1972, has made broadcastings and recordings of plays and verse, including complete sonnets of Shakespeare. TV appearances include: Henry Irving, The Three Musketeers, Savages, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, British in Love, Trouble with Gregory, Philby, The House Boy, Number 10—Disraeli, The Plot to Murder Lloyd George, Let’s Run Away to Africa, Sorrell and Son, Drummonds, etc. Films include: Room at the Top, Yesterday’s Enemy, The Gorgon, Rasputin, Watcher in the Woods, Wagner, Arch of Triumph, etc. Served in H.M. forces 1944-1948. Old Vic Company 1950-1952. Birmingham Repertory Company 1952-1955.
Association Artist, Royal Shakespeare Company. Played Fortinbras in Hamlet (Moscow and London) 1955. English Stage Company 1957, played in The Member of the Wedding, Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Man from Bellac and The Chairs.
Joined R.S.C. 1969; joined National Theatre 1987: roles: Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author 1987, Pavel in Fathers and Sons 1987. Tours with R.S.C. to Japan, Australia 1970, Japan 1972. Association Artist of R.S.C. since 1972, has made broadcastings and.
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Married 1st Greta Watson in 1956 (dissolved in 1964). Married 2nd Barbara Leigh-Hunt in 1967.
