Nicholas Brimble was born on 22 July 1944 and is an English actor whose long career has spanned theatre, television, film, and voice work.
13 Facts About Nick Brimble
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Nick Brimble's father was a schoolteacher who was a keen amateur actor, an activity in which Nick was involved on occasions as a child.
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Nick Brimble's parents gave him a season ticket to the Bristol Old Vic, where he saw every play from the age of 11 until he went to university at 18.
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Nick Brimble studied Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Sussex from 1962 to 1966.
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Nick Brimble left with an MA and went on to teach English and Drama at the University of Baghdad.
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Nick Brimble's stay in Iraq only lasted one year, owing to the political unrest there; he left at the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967, driving back to the UK overland in a battered Mini car purchased from British tourists he had met in Baghdad.
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In 1968 Nick Brimble became Youth Theatre Organiser at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.
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Nick Brimble administered the TIE company, which toured plays to schools in Kent.
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Nick Brimble acted in the plays as well as driving the van and doing whatever else was necessary.
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Nick Brimble then went on to work at Hull Arts Centre in Richard III with Bob Hoskins, the London Theatre Group in Macbeth with Steven Berkoff, the Palace Theatre, Watford, as well as playing a small part as a villager in the 1971 Hammer film Lust for a Vampire.
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From 1971 to 1973 Nick Brimble worked at the Northcott Theatre repertory company in Exeter.
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Nick Brimble appeared in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Loot, Guys and Dolls, and many other plays.
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Nick Brimble had a semi-regular part in The Sweeney as well as appearing in guest roles in many television productions such as Softly Softly, Z-Cars, The Professionals, Space: 1999, Blake's 7, Danger UXB, and Dempsey and Makepeace.