Anton Rodgers

About Anton Rodgers

Who is it?: Actor, Writer, Soundtrack
Birth Day: January 10, 1933
Birth Place:  Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Died On: 1 December 2007(2007-12-01) (aged 74)\nReading, Berkshire, England
Birth Sign: Aquarius
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1948-2007
Spouse(s): Morna Eugenie Watson Elizabeth Garvie (1983–2007)
Children: 5

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Anton Rodgers was born on January 10, 1933 in  Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, is Actor, Writer, Soundtrack. Anton Rodgers was born on January 10, 1933 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England as Anthony Rodgers. He was an actor and writer, known for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Merchant of Venice (2004) and The Prisoner (1967). He was married to Elizabeth Garvie and Morna Watson. He died on December 1, 2007 in Reading, Berkshire, England.
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Biography/Timeline

1947

Rodgers made his first West End appearance in 1947, aged 14, in Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He followed this in 1948 with a tour of an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations playing Pip, and the title role in a revival of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy which toured the UK in 1949. After repertory experience at Birmingham, Northampton and Hornchurch, he trained at LAMDA.

1957

Returning to London in November 1957 he joined the cast of The Boy Friend at Wyndham's Theatre. Thereafter his credits include:

1980

Rodgers was born in London, the son of Leonore (née Wood) and william Robert Rodgers. His early education was at Westminster School. Later he was educated at the Italia Conti Academy and LAMDA. He appeared on stage from the age of 14. He was well known for his television performances, specifically his long-running roles in the television sitcoms Fresh Fields in the 1980s and May to December from 1989 to 1994.

1982

Rodgers' second wife was the Actress Elizabeth Garvie, whom he met while filming the 1982 drama series, Something in Disguise. They often appeared on stage together, and toured giving readings from the works of Jane Austen and Robert Browning, among others.

1987

He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde and Peter Nichols. He appeared in films such as The Fourth Protocol (1987), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Scrooge (1970) (in which he performed the Academy Award-nominated Best Original Song "Thank You Very Much"). He also narrated the children's animated TV series Old Bear Stories and appeared as Andre, the comically corrupt French policeman who aided Michael Caine in his romantic/financial schemes in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.