Geoffrey Kirkness
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active1973–present

Geoffrey Kirkness is a British stage and screen actor. He has appeared on television and in radio play roles.[1]

Life and career

He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. [2]

Kirkness has appeared in the London West End, where he played the leading role Dick Dewy, in Under the Greenwood Tree 1978-79, directed by Patrick Garland at the Vaudeville Theatre.[3] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company subsequently,[4] for The Irish Play by Ron Hutchinson, appearing as Dwyer.[5]

Kirkness was the TV presenter in Ali G Indahouse, with Sacha Baron Cohen, 2002. He played Vice Admiral Phillips in the drama series Dunkirk, for the BBC, 2004 and General Alanbrooke in Into the Storm 2009, with Brendan Gleeson, for HBO television. He played Colin opposite Toyah Willcox in the film The Power of Three, 2011. In 2012 he appeared in the second series of The Hour, as Lord Reeves. In The Crimson Field he played Captain Osberton.[6]

In Amundsen (2019), Kirkness played (name in role Charles Bennet) Charles Peto Bennett (1856–1940), timber merchant and collector, whose Norwegian wife Kristine had an adulterous affair with Roald Amundsen.[7][8][9] In BBC Radio 4 play aired on 25 March 2023, The Song of the Cossacks based on the repatriation of Cossacks after World War II, and adapted by Stephen Wyatt from a stage play by Jean Binnie, Kirkness played General Skiro.[10]

References

  1. ↑ IMDB page
  2. ↑ "High Profile Alumni". The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
  3. ↑ Ian Herbert, Christine Baxter, Robert E. Finley (editors) Who's Who in the Theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage (1981) Volume 2, p. 70.
  4. ↑ Royal Shakespeare Company: A Complete Record of the Year's Work (1981), p. 102.
  5. ↑ "Production of The Irish Play, Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  6. ↑ "The Crimson Field Series 1 - Episode 4 Radio Times". Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Amundsen (2020) Cast". www.cinema.com.
  8. ↑ "Death of a North Borneo timber pioneer, Daily Express Online - Sabah's Leading News Portal". www.dailyexpress.com.my. 2 March 1940.
  9. ↑ Huntford, Roland (13 September 2012). Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 549. ISBN 978-1-4055-2031-7.
  10. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Song of the Cossacks". BBC.
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