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Ian Brooker is a character actor, with experience of theatre, television and film. However, it is in the medium of radio and audio drama that he is best known. Ian Anthony Brooker is the ninth generation of a theatrical family that first went on stage in the mid eighteenth century. Relatives have included leading theatrical and literary figures such as Dame Madge Kendal (Mrs Kendal in ''The Elephant Man'') (1848–1935), dramatists such as Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871) - author of the play ''Caste'', the screenwriter Philip MacDonald (1900–80) - author of the Boris Karloff film ''The Body Snatcher'', and several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films; Harry Duff (1895-1984) - the boy actor who played both Michael and John Darling in the original production and revival of the play ''Peter Pan''; the French actress, Rachel Berendt who studied with Sarah Bernhardt and who married the film, stage and television actor Pierre Fresnay; and Carol Robertson - producer of the BBC's ''Tales of Beatrix Potter'' and ''Oscar'' (starring Michael Gambon as Oscar Wilde). ==Radio== Productions for BBC Radio 4 have included: ''The Door in the Wall'' based upon three short stories by H.G.Wells, the comedy cricketing series, ''Memoirs of a Twelfth Man'' (with Norman Rodway), E. Nesbit’s ''Five Children and It'' and its sequel, ''The Story of the Amulet'', ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'', Ellis Peters' ''The Flight of a Witch'', Rose Tremain’s ''One Night in Winter'', David Pownall’s ''Façade'' (with David Tennant), ''Watership Down'', ''Mr Foster’s Good Fairy'', and "The Day They Wouldn't Take It Any More". He played Gaius Flavius Hilaris in the adaptation of Lindsey Davis’ first Falco story ''The Silver Pigs''. On Radio 3, he has appeared in Peter Tinniswood’s translation of Eduardo de Philippo’s ''The Monument'', and Lizzie Hopley’s play ''Salome''. Since 1999 he has made occasional appearances as Wayne Foley of Radio Borsetshire in Radio 4’s ''The Archers''. He has also supplied the voices of Elgar and Berlioz for Radio 4’s ''Married to the Music'', and Thomas Hardy in ''Ramblings''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Brooker (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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