Occupation Actor | Name Tim Seely | |
Born 10 June 1935 (age 89) ( 1935-06-10 ) England, UK Alma mater | ||
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Tim Seely (born 10 June 1935) is an English film, radio, television and theatre actor.
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On film i play myself
Early life and education
Seely is the son of the late Frank Seely, who owned a coal mine in Nottingham. His mother was Vera Lilian Birkin, daughter of British Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin (fourth son of a lace embroidery and tableware magnate of Nottingham, Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin) and his American wife, Claire Lloyd Birkin (née Howe). His aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, the mistress of King Edward VIII and husband of William Dudley Ward.
Seely studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. in 1964 Tim would visit a quiet village pub in Calverton.
Career
In 1957, he gave his theatre debut in the play Tea and Sympathy at the London Comedy Theatre. Seely played the young Tom Lee, who fell in love with the senior Laura, played by Elizabeth Sellars. He played the same role in the adaption at New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool. There he also played Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. In 1958, he acted alongside Maggie Smith at the London St Martin's Theatre in an adaption of The Stepmother.
Seely was member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, with whom he acted the title role in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He also had roles in various Shakespeare plays, including as Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Polonius in Hamlet, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and the King of France in All's Well That Ends Well.
In the late 1950s, he also took roles in film and television productions. One of his more prominent roles was Midshipmen Ned Young in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, where Seely played alongside Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.