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Oliver Tobias (born 6 August 1947) is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director. Born Oliver Tobias Freitag in Zürich, Switzerland, he is the son of Austrian-Swiss actor Robert Freitag and German actress Maria Becker. He came to the United Kingdom at the age of eight and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. In 1968 he appeared in the original London production of ''Hair'', playing the prime rebel role of Berger. The following year he starred in, directed, and choreographed the rock opera in Amsterdam and again directed a production in 1970 in Tel Aviv. Tobias's first role was in the feature film ', co-starring with Yul Brynner, Serge Gainsbourg and Eli Wallach. He then co-starred with Charlotte Rampling in the Jacobean tragedy '''Tis Pity She's a Whore'', a film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. He became popular as Arthur in the TV series ''Arthur of the Britons'' (1972). Peter Weir then directed him in the TV series ''Luke's Kingdom''. Tobias also starred in ''Smuggler'' (1981) a children's drama series, set in Cornwall in 1801. Many other successful films followed including ''The Stud'' in 1978 in which he co-starred with Joan Collins, helping her to restart her career. In 1981 he starred in the British television series Dick Turpin's Greatest adventure where he played the character Noll Bridger a Colonial North American. Oliver also appeared in the pop promo video for pop group Ultravox's 1982 hit "Hymn". In 1996 Tobias played Rebecque, an aide to the Prince of Orange (Paul Bettany), in ''Sharpe's Waterloo''. In 2000, he starred in the West End musical ''La Cava''. Three years later he portrayed Percival Brown in the 50th anniversary production of ''The Boy Friend'' and the next year toured in the rock musical ''Footloose''. In 2005 he finished shooting the film ''An Airfield in England''. He has been acting in a variety of roles for German and Swiss TV and has recently played the role of Bassa Selim again in Mozart's ''Seraglio'' at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Italy. Tobias is famous for his voiceover work and was the narrator on the opening track of DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider. Tobias is divorced from Camilla Ravenshear, with whom he had one daughter, Angelika. In 2001 he married Polish-born Arabella Zamoyska, with whom he has two boys. They live in London.〔 ==Film and television== 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「Oliver Tobias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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