Leigh Lawson
Allan Leigh Lawson is a British film and stage actor, director and writer.
Lawson was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire. His mother was Jewish but was not practicing. He initially studied at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts before training further at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Lawson has acted in film and television since the early 1970s, and has directed plays in the West End and on Broadway. He has worked with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and with film directors such as Roman Polanski and Franco Zeffirelli. He has been quoted as saying that the only time in his career when he didnt feel he should be somewhere else doing something else was when he was with the RSC. Lawsons portrayals in films include Bernardo in Brother Sun, Sister Moon and Alec dUrberville in Tess . He played the leading role as Alan Lomax in the television drama series Travelling Man , and guest starred in television series such as The Duchess of Duke Street , Disraeli , Feuer und Schwert Die Legende von Tristan und Isolde , The Ray Bradbury Theatre and Sile
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