Andrew Havill | |
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Born | Oxford, England | 1 June 1965
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Exeter |
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Years active | 1989–present |
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Website | Official website |
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Andrew Havill (born 1 June 1965) is an English actor. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the late 1980s, Havill has appeared in more than 40 films and 50 plays. After training in Oxford and London, [1] he began his career in repertory theatre in 1989 and made his screen debut in 1993. As a character actor, Havill has appeared extensively in British costume dramas. [2]
Havill attended the University of Exeter, where he read English and Drama. [3]
He spent four years with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, with roles in London theatre productions including Christopher Short's For Those in Peril at the Shaw Theatre, As You Like It at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, and Reynard the Fox on the Drum Theatre Plymouth and south-west tour. At the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Havill was in Henry V, Twelfth Night , and Ed Kemp's A Proper Place. He spent a further four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
Havill is also an alumnus of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, with roles in Oxford theatre productions including Twelfth Night [4] at the Oxford Playhouse, The Recruiting Officer at New College Cloisters, and As You Like It at Lady Margaret Hall Gardens.
Beginning his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Havill was in The Woman in Black at London's Fortune Theatre in 1989 and 1996, played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1989, and Reynaldo in Hamlet the same year.
Throughout the 1990s, Havill performed in a number of plays at London's West End and elsewhere. He portrayed several characters at the Barbican Theatre in an RSC production of A Clockwork Orange and at The Pit London in A Woman of No Importance . In conjunction with the RSC, Havill's focus was Shakespeare; in 1990, he portrayed George Seacoal in Much Ado About Nothing , Peter Arnold in Two Shakespearean Actors and The Merchant in The Comedy of Errors ; from 1991 to 1992, he portrayed Sir William Bagot in an RSC production of Richard II at the Barbican Theatre in London.
In 2003, Havill played Group Captain Windbreak in Justin Butcher's production of The Madness of George Dubya at the Arts Theatre in London. Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian that "Butcher's production... has a surprising jauntiness; ... Andrew Havill as an ineffectual group captain... stand[s] out." [5] The following year, Havill was cast as the Reverend James Morell in George Bernard Shaw's Candida , for which The Guardian's Lyn Gardner wrote "Much of the pleasure of Christopher Luscombe's well-observed period production is in watching Andrew Havill's interesting Morell move from confident self-belief to bewildered self-doubt as he starts to understand that even goodness is a form of selfishness." [6] Havills other stage roles of the 2000s include working with Alan Ayckbourn on his play Virtual Reality, a West End production of Jean Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon , and roles in director Chris Luscombe's productions of The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare's Globe. Of the latter, Gardner wrote "Havill's comic timing is a joy." [7]
Havill also appeared as Frank Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor US tour of 2010. Ben Brantley commented in The New York Times , "As Ford... the excellent Mr. Havill is exactly as serious as he needs to be, reminding us that one of comedy’s main functions is to defuse bombs that in real life often explode and destroy." [8] In 2012 and 2013, he was part of the original cast of James Graham's play This House , at the National Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin. [9] His work has included three roles at Hampstead Theatre in the plays Farewell to the Theatre, Drawing the Line , and Wonderland, [10] and a portrayal of the English physician Sir Gilbert Wedgecroft in a National Theatre production of Waste, with Anne Cox writing "Havill offers excellent support... as always." [11] In 2019, Havill portrayed Warren Lewis at the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Shadowlands, [12] along with actors Hugh Bonneville and Liz White; Havill starred alongside Bonneville in the Downtown Abbey film of the same year.
Havill made his television debut in Lucy Gannon's Soldier Soldier in 1993, followed by a portrayal of English critic John Davenport in The House of Elliot Series 3 the following year. From 1997 to 1998, Havill worked with Lynda La Plante on her drama series Trial & Retribution , playing Clarence Oxley on Trial & Retribution I and Crispin Oxley on Trial & Retribution II. Havill starred in two 1999 television mini series: Aristocrats and Wives and Daughters as Charles Bunbury and Sir Charles Morton respectively.
In the 2000s, his television roles included portraying Manet on The Impressionists , Elizabeth David (in which he featured as the husband of cookery writer Elizabeth David in the docudrama about whom it was named), [13] Daphne and The Tudors . He played the Chief Steward in the Christmas Doctor Who episode "Voyage of the Damned" [14] and was in the BBC drama Spooks Series 8.
In 2011, Havill portrayed the Reverend Conrad Walker on ITV's Midsomer Murders (The Night of the Stag). In 2012, he played the Royal Equerry, Harry, in Sherlock ( A Scandal in Belgravia ), drawing the attention of WhatCulture's Christian Bone, who said he was "known for playing well-spoken upper-class types." [15] His work of the 2010s includes playing Victor McKinley on the BBC's Father Brown , Edward Sidwell on The Coroner Series 1, episode 8 (Napoleon's Violin), and Gareth Anderson on Vera (Natural Selection) in 2017.
Havill played factory owner, Douglas Broome in the 2021 series, The Nevers , [16] and Professor Lucius Stamfield in Endeavour of the same year. In the fifth and sixth seasons of The Crown , he played Robert Fellowes, the Queen's private secretary and brother-in-law of Princess Diana. He and twelve other cast members were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for The Crown (2023). [17]
Havill made his film debut in 1995, portraying Galant on Michael Hoffman's Restoration . Following this, he played Algernon in Brian Gilbert's 1997 film Wilde and Piers in Clare Kilner's 1999 film Janice Beard .
In the 2000s, Havill's film work included roles in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's 2002 period drama The Heart of Me as Charles (the fiancé of Helena Bonham Carter's Dinah), [13] Douglas McGrath's 2002 period comedy-drama Nicholas Nickleby , Christine Jeffs' 2003 biographical drama Sylvia , and Sean Ellis' 2008 horror film The Broken as Doctor Myers.
Beginning with The King's Speech in 2010, in which he portrayed the royal sound engineer Robert Wood, Havill has starred in a number of historical dramas in Britain and elsewhere. In 2011, he played the cabinet secretary to Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady ; in 2012, he played Cameron, welcoming Olivia Colman's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Samuel West's King George VI to the United States in Hyde Park on Hudson ; in 2014, he played Turing's professor in The Imitation Game ; he portrayed the Archbishop of Canterbury in David Michôd's 2019 film The King and the 6th Earl of Harewood, Henry Lascelles, in the 2019 Downtown Abbey film. [18] In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker of the same year, Havill played a First Order Officer warning Richard E. Grant's Allegiant General Pryde "they’re targeting the navigation tower, so the fleet can’t deploy". His work of the 2010s includes roles in The Awakening as George Vandermeer, Cloud Atlas as Mr. Hotchkiss, Dad's Army as Captain Meeks, My Cousin Rachel as Parson Pascoe, Gold as Sir James Benson, and Lyrebird as Maarten Wooning.
Havill portrayed Sir Philip Hendy in Roger Michell's 2020 film The Duke , along with actors Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. In 2021, he played Enid Baines' father George in Censor , delivering "sterling work" as a "button-down" parent. [19] He played General Reginald Dyer in Bollywood's Sardar Udham of the same year.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1995 | Restoration | Galant | Film debut | [20] |
1997 | Wilde | Algernon | [21] | |
1998 | Titanic Town | Officer | [22] | |
1999 | Janice Beard | Piers | [23] | |
2002 | The Heart of Me | Charles (Dinah's fiancé) | [24] | |
Nicholas Nickleby | Mr. Nickleby | [25] | ||
2003 | Sylvia | David Wevill | [26] | |
2004 | The Rocket Post | [27] | ||
2008 | The Broken | Dr. Myers | [13] | |
Dummy | Doctor | [28] | ||
Pop Art | Mr. Milton | Short | [29] | |
2010 | Mr. Nice | Prosecution Barrister | [28] | |
The King's Speech | Robert Wood | [30] | ||
London Boulevard | Unlikely Vagrant | [31] | ||
2011 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Master Ford | [32] | |
The Awakening | George Vandermeer | [13] | ||
The Iron Lady | Cabinet Minister | [13] | ||
2012 | Hyde Park on Hudson | Cameron | [27] | |
Cloud Atlas | Mr. Hotchkiss | [33] | ||
Les Misérables | Cochepaille | [34] | ||
2013 | Closed Circuit | News Reporter 1 | [35] | |
The List | Vickery | [36] | ||
2014 | The Imitation Game | Teacher | [37] | |
Remainder | Peter Younger | [38] | ||
2015 | The Carer | Dr. Satterthwaite | [35] | |
The Danish Girl | Danish Embassy Official | [39] | ||
Letters from Baghdad | Sir Percy Cox | [40] | ||
2016 | Dad's Army | Captain Meeks | [41] | |
Hot Property | Alan Day | [38] | ||
2017 | My Cousin Rachel | Parson Pascoe | [42] | |
The Children Act | George | [42] | ||
2018 | Gold | Sir James Benson | [43] | |
2019 | The King | Archbishop of Canterbury | [44] | |
Downton Abbey | Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood | [30] | ||
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | First Order Officer #7 | [37] | ||
The Last Vermeer | Maarten Wooning | [45] | ||
2020 | The Duke | Sir Philip Hendy | [44] | |
2021 | Censor | George | [46] | |
Sardar Udham | General Reginald Dyer | [47] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1993 | Soldier Soldier | Liaison Officer | Television debut | [38] |
1994 | The House of Eliott | John Davenport | [48] | |
1997 | The Peter Principle | Craig Hunter | U.S. title: The Boss | [49] |
Harry Enfield & Chums | Jeremy | [50] | ||
A Dance to the Music of Time | Sunny Farebrother | [39] | ||
1998 | Heat of the Sun | Reverend Peter Michaeljohn | [51] | |
Kavanagh QC | Nicholas Gee | [38] | ||
Trial & Retribution | Crispin Oxley Clarence Oxley | [38] | ||
1999 | Aristocrats | Charles Bunbury | [52] | |
Wives and Daughters | Sir Charles Morton | [53] | ||
2000 | The Ghost Hunter | Professor Darcy | [54] | |
2001 | Office Gossip | Lonely Heart | [50] | |
2002 | ER | Daniel Newman | ||
Casualty | Maurice Goodwin | |||
2002–11 | Doctors | Ian Rickman John Wilton Mr. Ballard | [51] | |
2003 | Judge John Deed | Alexander Petros QC | ||
The Bill | Doctor Waring | |||
2004 | D-Day 6.6.1944 | Jake Masterman | Television film | [51] |
Island at War | Oberleutnant Flach | [55] | ||
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Inspector Ardery | |||
2005 | Casanova | English Chancellor | [51] | |
Hustle | Dr. Mansfield | |||
Waking the Dead | Noel Simmons | [51] | ||
Broken News | Nicholas Michaelmass (ESN Network Reporter) | |||
The English Harem | Lawrence of Arabia | Television film | [4] | |
2006 | Surviving Disaster | Kenneth Rayment | [56] | |
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes | Tony David | Television film | [13] | |
Silent Witness | Alan Garnett | [4] | ||
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Bassianus | [4] | ||
2006–07 | The Impressionists | Manet | [13] | |
2007 | Nuclear Secrets | Harry Shergold | [4] | |
The Brussels | Affluent Suit | |||
Daphne | Tommy Browning | Television film | [13] | |
Doctor Who | Chief Steward | Episode: "Voyage of the Damned" | [51] | |
2008 | Holby City | Shaun Brennan | ||
The Tudors | ||||
A Touch of Frost | Howard Gellman | [51] | ||
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall | Deputy Ambassador | Television film | [4] | |
2009 | Jonathan Creek | Narrator | [51] | |
Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant | Chapuys | [57] | ||
Into the Storm | King's Private Secretary | Television film | [58] | |
Small Island | Mr. Ryder | [4] | ||
Criminal Justice | John Race | [4] | ||
Agatha Christie's Poirot | Sven Hjerson | [51] | ||
Spooks | Roger Maynard | [42] | ||
2010 | Law & Order | Cathal Morris | [51] | |
2011 | Midsomer Murders | Rev Conrad Walker | [4] | |
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Colin de Glanville QC | [51] | ||
2012 | Sherlock | The Equerry | Episode: "A Scandal in Belgravia" | [42] |
2013 | Lightfields | Doctor | [4] | |
2014 | Father Brown | Victor McKinley | [4] | |
Trying Again | Seb | [50] | ||
Messiah at the Foundling Hospital | Charles Jennens | |||
2015 | Spotless | Andrew St. John-Payne | [4] | |
Partners in Crime | James Peel KC | [4] | ||
Life in Squares | Clive Bell | [4] | ||
The Coroner | Edward Sidwell | [27] | ||
Virtuoso | Baron Von Faust | [4] | ||
2016 | Call the Midwife | Denis Dawley | [42] | |
Witness for the Prosecution | Clifford Starling | [38] | ||
Taboo | Quaker | |||
2016–17 | The Frankenstein Chronicles | Reverend Ambrose | [51] | |
2017 | 1066: A Year to Conquer England | Archbishop Stigand | [59] | |
Vera | Gareth Anderson | [42] | ||
Man in an Orange Shirt | Major Fanshawe | [27] | ||
Victoria | Dr. Pritchard | [42] | ||
The Last Post | Dr. Russell | [38] | ||
2018 | Trust | Patrick de Laszlo | [42] | |
2019 | Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes | Brigadier | [50] | |
2021 | Endeavour | Professor Lucius Stamfield | [37] | |
2021–22 | The Nevers | Douglas Broome | [51] | |
2022–2023 | The Crown | Robert Fellowes | Season 5 and season 6 | [30] |
2022 | The Walk-In | Mr. Atkinson | [60] | |
Year | Title | Role | Company | Venue | Ref(s) |
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1989 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Shakespeare Theatre | [4] |
Cymbeline | Briton Captain 2 Courtier Guest | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Shakespeare Theatre | [61] | |
The Woman in Black | The Actor | Fortune Theatre | [61] | ||
Hamlet | Reynaldo | Royal Shakespeare Company | Barbican Theatre | [37] | |
1990 | A Clockwork Orange | Geoffrey Policeman 3 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Barbican Theatre | [61] |
Much Ado About Nothing | George Seacoal | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Shakespeare Theatre | [4] | |
The Comedy of Errors | Merchant | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Shakespeare Theatre | [4] | |
Two Shakespearean Actors | Peter Arnold | Royal Shakespeare Company | Swan Theatre | [4] | |
1991 | A Woman of No Importance | Gerald Arbuthnot | Royal Shakespeare Company | The Pit London | [4] |
1991–92 | Richard II | Sir William Bagot | Royal Shakespeare Company | Barbican Theatre | [4] |
1992 | A Woman of No Importance | Gerald Arbuthnot | Royal Shakespeare Company | The Pit London | [4] |
1996 | The Prince's Play | Lord Tourland | National Theatre | National Theatre | [4] |
2000 | Virtual Reality | Alex Huby | Stephen Joseph Theatre | [4] | |
2002 | Time and Time Again | Professor Darcy | Salisbury Playhouse | [4] | |
2003 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Jack | Oxford Stage Company | Theatre Royal Bath | [4] |
The Madness of George Dubya | Group Captain Windbreak | Arts Theatre | [5] | ||
2004 | Candida | Rev. James Morell | Oxford Stage Company | [6] | |
2005 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Mortimer | Theatre Royal | [62] | |
2006 | The Comedy of Errors | Antipholus of Syracuse | Shakespeare's Globe | [61] | |
2007 | Belmont | Bassanio | Private Drama | Two Temple Place | [61] |
2008 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | Shakespeare's Globe | [61] | |
Ring Round the Moon | Patrice Bombelles | Act Productions Karl Sydow | The Playhouse Theatre | [61] | |
2010 | Noises Off | Garry Lejeune | Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company | Birmingham Repertory Theatre | [61] |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | Frank Ford | Shakespeare’s Globe | Shakespeare's Globe | [61] | |
2012 | Farewell to the Theatre | George | Hampstead Theatre | [63] | |
2012–13 | This House | Alan Clark MP | National Theatre | [37] | |
2013 | Drawing the Line | Lord Louis Mountbatten | Hampstead Theatre | [61] | |
2014 | Wonderland | Walker | Hampstead Theatre | [61] | |
2015–16 | Waste | Sir Gilbert Wedgecroft | National Theatre | [4] | |
2019 | Shadowlands | Warren Hamilton "Warnie" Lewis | Chichester Festival Theatre | [64] |
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Andrew Havill's performance as Master Ford
Andrew Havill offers excellent support, as always, as doctor to the wealthy, Sir Gilbert Wedgecroft
Known for playing well-spoken upper-class types
The supporting cast also deliver sterling work, from her button-down parents George (Andrew Havill, "My Cousin Rachel")