1. Roy Marsden's preference was for the alternative experimental theatres of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Birmingham over London's commercial theatre.
12 Facts About Roy Marsden
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Roy Marsden's appearances include Crispen in The Friends, 1970; Casca and Lucilius in Julius Caesar, 1972; Paul Schippel in Schippel, 1974; Heinrich Krey in The Plumber's Progress, 1975.
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Roy Marsden played Long John Silver in Treasure Island at London's Mermaid Theatre around Christmas for two years and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre.
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In 2008, Marsden appeared in two productions, Murder on Air and Happy Jack at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.
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Roy Marsden has appeared in guest roles in episodes of The New Avengers, Space: 1999, Only Fools and Horses, and Tales of the Unexpected.
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Roy Marsden played Neil Burnside, the dour and fiercely protective director of operations for the Secret Intelligence Service, whose character spent as much time infighting with his superiors in Whitehall and his own department as he did battling the KGB.
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In 1993, Roy Marsden appeared in The Last Vampyre, a feature-length episode of Sherlock Holmes.
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Roy Marsden appeared in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Smith and Jones" as Mr Stoker, a medical consultant.
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Roy Marsden reprised his Only Fools and Horses role in 2009 as one of the Driscoll brothers in the spin-off series, The Green Green Grass.
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Roy Marsden appeared in the television film Margaret as Norman Tebbit.
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In 2010 Roy Marsden appeared in an episode of New Tricks, and in 2011 in an episode of Silent Witness.
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Roy Marsden was just this subject's stage name, until April 2005 when it became his legal name.