Stephan Chase


Stephan Chase was a British actor of Cornish and Scots descent. He was educated in Ireland and England. Before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, he won a scholarship and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art later becoming an Associate of RADA.
He played Hamlet in 1975 in a British Council / Regent's Park Open Air Theatre touring production in India and Ceylon. He appeared as a leading man in feature films, TV plays and series and the West End theatre, such as Rules of the Game, directed by Anthony Quayle, until he founded and ran the Rhubarb Agency 1988-2005. During this time, Chase also worked as an audio producer and director. He subsequently worked as a teacher and coach in London, but in 2011 he began working as an actor again.
He died on 27 June 2019 in London at the age of 74.

Filmography

Film

  • Cry of the Banshee - Sean Whitman
  • Macbeth - Malcolm
  • The Incredible Sarah
  • The Golden Lady - Max Rowlands
  • Nijinsky - Adolph Bolm
  • Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Army Captain
  • White Mischief - Carberry
  • The Child
  • Trained - Robert
  • Maleficent - General
  • The Hooligan Factory - The Governor
  • The Earth Belongs To No-One - Farmer Joseph
  • Francis - Pope Innocent III
  • The Wager - Harry
  • Finding Saint Francis - Pietro Bernadone, Mayor of Assisi
  • The Carer - Neville

    Television

  • UFO - Film Director
  • Wives and Daughters - Osborne Hamley
  • Arthur of the Britons - Horgren
  • The Edwardians - Kearey
  • Orson Welles Great Mysteries - Paul Zachary
  • The Zoo Gang - Raoul
  • The Professionals - Dapper
  • Famous Five - Perton
  • Secret Army - Captain Stephen Durnford / Stephen Durnford
  • The Talisman - Richard I of England
  • Take Three Women - Joe
  • Black Arrow - Black Arrow
  • Florence Nightingale - Dr. Sutherland
  • Dempsey and Makepeace - Edwards
  • A Ghost in Monte Carlo - Deal
  • The Governor - Architect Richard Greenleaves

    Theatre

  • The musical, Katie Mulholland
  • The Teddy Bears' Picnic
  • Liberty Oregon
  • ''Suddenly Last Summer''