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Richard Albrecht | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actor, director, |
Richard Albrecht (born 1950) is an English actor, director, His work include all facets of British theatrical life: commercials, corporates, film, narration, television, theatre and voice-over.
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Trained at the E15 Acting School (1967–70), he then went into repertory theatre at Oldham, Lincoln, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newcastle, Leicester, Greenwich, Colchester, Salisbury and Cheltenham; touring theatre with Pentabus, Bristol Express, Monstrous Regiment, Shared Experience; Fringe Theatre with the Combination, Soho Poly, Traverse, Young Vic, Stratford East, and a one-man show, RIP Maria Callas at the Edinburgh Festival. In the West End, he appeared in Happy as a Sandbag. Albrecht appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in Ashes and Sand and My Child .
His TV appearances include Coronation Street , EastEnders , Casualty , The Bill , King Lear , Threads , Doctors , Agatha Christie's Poirot , Heartbeat , Where The Heart is and Holby City .
Albrecht's films include Jude , The Man Who Cried and The Glasshouse. His voice work includes narrating Wainwright-the Man Who Loved the Lakes, 17 episodes of Extraordinary Animals and the kids cartoon/film of Badly Drawn Roy. Latest theatre appearance[ when? ] was in Independent Means at the Library Theatre, Manchester.
Albrecht was also one of the three actors who started the second actors co-operative Agency, after Actorum, (in 1976) which as A C Managment ran for 15 years.
