1. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay was an English actor.
22 Facts About Nicholas Clay
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The family settled in Kent, where Nicholas Clay became interested in acting, performing at the Medway Little Theatre Club.
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Nicholas Clay had roles on TV in episodes of Ask Mr Pastry, ITV Television Playhouse, The Pocket Lancer, and Tales of Mystery.
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Nicholas Clay studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Nicholas Clay returned to films with The Night Digger, a horror film with Patricia Neal and was in episodes of Take Three Girls, Armchair Theatre, and Love Story.
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Nicholas Clay had the starring role of Charles Darwin in The Darwin Adventure and was in William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare.
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Nicholas Clay was cast in several of Laurence Olivier's Old Vic productions and during the 1970s came to be regarded as one of British theatre's most promising actors.
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Blakemore directed him in the part of Young Inna in Arturo Ui at Nottingham Playhouse, where Nicholas Clay acted several roles in Jonathan Miller's production of King Lear.
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Nicholas Clay played Hastings in Clifford Williams's world tour of She Stoops to Conquer.
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Nicholas Clay appeared in In This House of Brede with Diana Rigg and played Alan in the 1976 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, alongside Peter Firth.
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Nicholas Clay was in Terror of Frankenstein then did Saturday Sunday Monday with Laurence Olivier.
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Nicholas Clay had a small role in Zulu Dawn and was in Lovespell, filmed in 1979 but not released until 1981.
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Nicholas Clay played Orestes in The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time.
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Nicholas Clay followed it playing the title role in The Search for Alexander the Great.
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For TV Nicholas Clay was in The Agatha Christie Hour, in an adaptation of "In a Glass Darkly" then Russian Night.
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Nicholas Clay continued working regularly on stage and appeared in a number of made-for-television films and miniseries.
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Nicholas Clay did Das Martyrium des heiligen Sebastian in Germany and The Corsican Brothers for TV.
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Nicholas Clay was Doctor Percy Trevelyan in an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes entitled "The Resident Patient".
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Nicholas Clay had support parts in Sleeping Beauty, Lionheart and Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story.
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Nicholas Clay died in London on 25 May 2000, at age 53 from liver cancer.
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Nicholas Clay was interred in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Sibton, Suffolk.
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In 1980, Nicholas Clay married actress Lorna Heilbron, who, with their two daughters, survives him.