Richard's Career Timeline


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1988 Joins Budapest Circus
1989 Receives Equity card
1989-1995 Various theatre productions including The Long, The Short and the Tall; The Real Thing; Death of a Salesman; and, in the West End, Showboat, Annie Get Your Gun (Thanks to RichardArmitageOnline)
1991 Ensemble, 42nd Street (Theatre, The Dominion)
1992 Man in Pub, Boon (TV series, episode 6 series 7, aired 13th October, 1992, Central Television) (Thanks to C4ever)
1994 Admetus/Macavity, Cats (Theatre, Bradfort) (Thanks to Sandrac)
1994 – 1995 Rum Tum Tugger/Macavity/Gus/Swing, Cats (Theatre, West End) (Thanks to Andromeda)
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1995 Enrols in London Academy for Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
1996 Swing, Cats (Film, Universal) (Thanks to Andromeda)
1997 Wins LAMDA Fight Night for a three-hander performed with his classmates David Oyelowo and Greg Jarvis
1998 Bernardo, Hamlet, (Theatre, Birmingham Repertory)
  Graduates from LAMDA
1999 Young Richie Baker, The Four Alice Bakers (Theatre, Birmingham Repertory)
  Naboo Fighter Pilot Uncredited, Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (Film, Universal)
  Smug Man at Party, This Year's Love (Film, This Year's Love Ltd)
  Epiphanes, Cleopatra (Film)
1999 – 2000 Angus, Macbeth; tours US & Japan (Theatre, RSC)
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1999 – 2001 Various productions, Royal Shakespeare Company
2000 Delio, The Duchess of Malfi (Theatre, Birmingham Repertory)
2001 Dr Tom Steele, The Doctors (TV series, episodes 58 & 59 series 4, BBC)
  Dr Craig Parker, Casualty (TV series, episode 17 series 16, BBC)
  Angus, Macbeth (Telemovie, RSC, Illuminations TV/Channel 4)
2002 Minor role, Annie Lee (Theatre, Operating Theatre/Actors’ Centre) (Thanks to RichardArmitageOnline)
  Armed police officer, Spooks (TV series, episode 4 series 1, Kudos/BBC) (Thanks to RichardArmitageOnline)
  John Standring, Sparkhouse (TV mini-series, 3 episodes, BBC)
  Jez, Use Me As Your Cardigan (Theatre, Jacksons Lane, Outer London
19 February 2002 to 09 March 2002) (Thanks to Sandrac and Jonia)
2003 Lee Preston, Cold Feet, (TV series, episodes 2-6 series 5, Granada/BBC)
  Captain Ian Macalwain, Ultimate Force (TV series, episodes 2-6 series 2, Bentley Productions/ITV)
  Paul Andrews, Between the Sheets (TV mini-series, 6 episodes, Yorkshire Television/ITV)
2004 * John Thornton, North & South (TV mini-series, 4 episodes, BBC)
2005 Steven, Frozen (Film, Liminal Films)
  Philip Turner, Inspector Lynley Mysteries: In Divine Proportion (TV series, episode 1 series 4, BBC)
  Bill Chatford, Malice Aforethought (made for TV film, Mountview Film/ITV)
  * Dr Alec Track, The Golden Hour, (TV series, 4 episodes, Talkback Thames/ITV)
  Peter Macduff, BBC's Shakespeare Retold: Macbeth (made for TV film, Illuminations TV/ BBC 4)
2006 * Young Claude Monet, The Impressionists (made for TV film series, 3 episodes, BBC)
  Narrator, Robin Hood: Will You Tolerate This?; Sheriff Got Your Tongue?; Who Shot the Sheriff?; Parent Hood (Audiobook, Tiger Aspects/BBC)
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  Voiceover, Empire's Children (TV documentary series, 6 episodes, Channel 4)
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  Himself /Storyteller, CBeebies Bedtime Stories: I'm Not Going Out There!, The Lost Acorn, Winnie the Witch, Trouble at the Dinosaur Café, Flat Stanley  (TV series, BBC CBeebies)
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2006 & 2007 Harry Kennedy, The Vicar of Dibley (TV series, episodes 1 & 2 series 5, Tiger Aspects/BBC)
  Harry Kennedy, The Vicar of Dibley – Comic Relief Special (TV special, episode 3 series 5, Tiger Aspects/BBC)
2006-2009 * Sir Guy of Gisborne, Robin Hood (TV series, episodes 1-13 series 1, episodes 1-13 series 2, episodes 1-3 & 5-13 series 3, Tiger Aspects/BBC)
2007 Ricky Deeming, George Gently: Gently Go Man (TV series, episode 1 series 1, Company Pictures, Gently TV Ltd/BBC 1)
  Narrator, Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell (Audiobook, BBC Audiobooks/Go Audio)
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  * Percy Courtenay, Miss Marie Lloyd (TV mini series, Hat Trick Productions/BBC 4)
  Phillip Durrant, Marple: Ordeal by Innocence (Telemovie, Granada/ITV)
 

Reader, Various poems, A War Less Ordinary (Radio, BBC 2)
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  Sir Guy of Gisborne, Children in Need (Television special, BBC)
  Reader, The Ted Hughes Letters (Radio, BBC Radio 4)
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2008 Himself/Guest interview, The Story of the Costume Drama: Affairs of the Heart (Television series, episode 3, ITV 3)
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2008-2010 * Lucas North, Spooks (Television series, episodes 1-8 series 7-9, Kudos/BBC)
2009 * John Mulligan, Moving On: Drowning Not Waving (TV mini series, episode 3 series 1, BBC)
  Narrator, Robin Hood: Witchfinders, The Siege (Audiobook, Big Finish)
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  Narrator, Sylvester by Georgette Heyer (Audiobook, Naxos)
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  Narrator, The Great Sperm Race (TV documentary, Blink Films/Channel 4)
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  Narrator, New Homes From Hell, Series 1 (TV documentary, ITV, March 2009)
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2010 * Robert Lovelace, Clarissa: A History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (Radio play, Catherine Bailey Productions/BBC 4)
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  Narrator, Venetia by Georgette Heyer (Audiobook, Naxos)
Venetia was nominated for an Audie for Best Audio Adaptation in March 2011. The winners were announced at a Gala ceremony in New York on May 24th, 2011. Unfortunately, the audiobook did not win.
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  Narrator, The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
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  Reader, Various poems, Words & Music: Symphony of the City (Radio, BBC 3)
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  Narrator, Too Poor for Posh School (TV documentary, Channel 4)
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Narrator, Forest Elephants: Rumbles in the Jungle (TV documentary, BBC 2)
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  Narrator, Surgery School (TV documentary series, Tiger Aspect/ITV)
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Narrator, Lost Land of the Tiger ("Expedition Tiger", Australia), (TV documentary, 3 episodes, BBC 1) (Thanks to Sapphire)
This series was nominated, altough unsuccessfully, in the Science and Natural History category of the Royal Television Society Awards in March 2011. The ceremony was held on March 15th, 2011.
The series aired in Australia during February, 2012 on ABC1 as, "Expedition Tiger".
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  Voiceover, various television/radio advertisements including the British parliament election debates (Sky), Britain's Olympic advertisement (BBC), Audi, Santander
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  Narrator, New Homes From Hell, Series 2 (Television documentary, ITV)
Series 2 also aired on Gem in Australia during March, 2011)
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  Himself/Dennis, Three Wishes, 24-Hour Plays Celebrity Gala (Theatre, Old Vic)
2010 – 2011 * John Porter, Strike Back (TV series, episodes 1-3 series 1, (series 2 is in production) (Leftbank Productions/Sky)
2011 Hans Kruger, Captain America (Film, Marvel Productions), released July 2011.
  Narrator, Fraud Squad (Television Documentary, ITV, episode 1 aired 26th August, 2011 9.00 pm; episode 2 aired 2nd September, 2011, 9 pm)
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2012 * Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit, Part 1 (Film, Warner Bros/MGM)
2013 * Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit, Part 2 (Film, Warner Bros/MGM)