Raymond Sargent
| Raymond Sargent | |
|---|---|
| Born | Poole, Dorset, England |
| Other names | ' |
| 💼 Occupation | Actor, musician and dramatist |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Julia Thomas |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.raymondsargent.com |
Raymond Sargent (2 October 1952 – 9 March 2008)[citation needed] was an English actor, musician and dramatist.
Early life
Along with his sister Jean, he was born in the town of Poole.[citation needed]
Career
Sargent's future wife Julia Banwell introduced him to amateur dramatics. He then studied acting at Mountview Theatre School in London.[1]
Theatre
He toured for two years from 1994 to 1996 in the national tour of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story playing Norman Petty and Jack Daw. He also played parts in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Rhinoceros! and Hard Times.[1]
Television and film
During his early career, he played small parts in television programmes such as Only Fools and Horses, Miss Marple, cult programmes The Two Ronnies, Blake's 7 and Doctor Who.[citation needed] He later played larger parts in Let's Roll: The Story of Flight 93 and Time Tourists.[citation needed] He also appeared in several television advertisements and training videos.[1] Sargent performed in student films throughout his career including several for local filmmaker Jamie Shearing.[citation needed]
Music
He was a self-taught musician playing the saxophone, guitar, recorder, accordion, bagpipes, piano and flute among other instruments.[citation needed] He played in the medieval trio the Wimborne Minstrels, with Charles Spicer and Phil Humphries and in a ceilidh band called No Strings Attached.[2] Sargent wrote original music for his one-man shows and for other projects such as the New Music for the River Stour project, which was performed in Wimborne, Dorset by a local choir.[3]
Dramatisations and dance
Sargent was best known for touring his one-man shows nationally. From 2002 onwards,[1] he performed theatrical adaptations of The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy and The Signalman by Charles Dickens as halves of his production Two Victorian Tales.[4] He also performed an original dramatisation of T. E. Lawrence's last years and his relationship with Thomas Hardy.[5]
Sargent was an experienced folk dance caller and applied this skill in his one-man shows to ceilidh dancing, providing lower cost folk dances by accompanying self-created backing tracks on his saxophone, demonstrating and instructing or "calling" dances by himself. He provided the choreography for LWT's television adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge, in which he was also an extra in along with his wife Julia, and daughter Laura.[1]
Writing
He held educational workshops on adapting written material for the stage, original script writing, theatre skills, public address and poetry writing.[6][7] He also read poetry for BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please[citation needed].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Raymond Sargent. "Biography". Raymond Sargent. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ↑ Raymond Sargent. "The Wimborne Minstrels". Raymondsargent.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ↑ "New Music for the River Stour". Commonground.org.uk. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Raymond Sargent's "Two Victorian Tales"". Raymondsargent.com. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ↑ "The Warrior and The Poet". Raymondsargent.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Raymond Sargent. "Ray's Educational Services and Workshops". Raymondsargent.com. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ↑ "Mere Literary Festival 2004 Programme". Merelitfest.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 March 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Unknown parameter
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- 1952 births
- 2008 deaths
- 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century English male actors
- 20th-century English male musicians
- 20th-century English male writers
- Actors from Poole
- English male dramatists and playwrights
- English male film actors
- English male musical theatre actors
- English male television actors
- Male actors from Dorset
- Musicians from Dorset
- Writers from Dorset
