Cyril Shaps

Cyril Shaps Leonard ( born October 13, 1923 in Highbury, London, † 1 January 2003 Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex ) was a British actor.

Life

Shaps was born in the East End of London as the son of a Jewish tailor from Poland. At the age of twelve years occupied Shaps courses at the London Broadcasting School and worked in commercials for food stamps OL Sauce and Quaker Oats on Radio Lyons and Radio Luxembourg in broadcasting with. Although he actually always wanted to be an actor, he worked as office and administrative employee at the London County Council Ambulance Service and has taught acting, music and singing at the Royal Army Education Corps. After retiring from the army in 1947 he received a scholarship to the drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in London. He worked for two years as a producer and announcer for the English-language radio station Radio Holland in the Netherlands, before returning to Britain.

His debut as a stage actor, he was in Guildford in a production of the BBC Radio Repertory Company. From 1952 to 1954 he appeared regularly on BBC Radio Repertory Company. He has participated in numerous radio productions of plays where he often old men and priests played, among other things, as an old servant Firs in The Cherry Orchard, as Justice of the Peace Shallow in Henry IV, as Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, as Polonius in Hamlet and as Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Shaps worked since the 1950s for the film and television. Due to its small body size and his roundish face, he was used almost exclusively as a character actor and concise in supporting roles; a role genre, which he remained faithful for over 50 years. He played 1Charge barman in the officers' club in the epic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), the neighbors Mr. Pinkus in the social drama Challenged (1967) and the scientist Dr. Bechmann in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977 ). In the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, he played in 1977 under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli the father of a demon-possessed boy. In the miniseries Holocaust - The history of the White family in 1978, he played a native of Bremen concentration camp prisoner vineyard. In 1994 he was in the British comedy film King George - A Madness of the role of the grumpy royal court and personal physician Dr. Lucas Pepys ( who " found the stool more eloquently than the pulse" ), which is wholly owned, the causes of investigate discoloration of the royal stool and urine. This role had previously been represented from 1992 to 1994 in the film adaptation of the underlying play What, What or illness of King George III by Alan Bennett at the National Theatre in London Shaps. An intense role Portrait succeeded Shaps last 2002 as concentration camp victims and age- Jew at the rendezvous in the Holocaust film The Pianist.

Shaps also acted in numerous British television series with. In memory particularly its role remains as the Portuguese wine merchant Señor Braganza in the television series The Onedin Line.

Filmography

Weblink

• Cyril Shaps at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cyril Shaps Character actor and voice- over artist in Obituary: The Independent of 24 January 2003.