That’s The Beauty Of Vodka… 2011 – Cabin Pressure with John Finnemore, Stephanie Cole, & Benedict Cumberbatch Trust me, with a voice of that timbre and resonance you can hold your own in any company. During his film work, he’s shared screen time with Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, and Helen Mirren. Meanwhile, our Mr Allam was appearing in a few films V For Vendetta, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Woman in Black, and he took the lead in the comedy The Hippopotamus.
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Still can’t place him? He’s the chap who delivers the line…”A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.” He doesn’t have a lot to do in the TV adaptation but does figure a bit more in the books. He played Magister Illyrio Mopatis and he was the chap who brokered the marriage between Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa). The part Roger Allam plays in Game Of Thrones is small but quite pivotal. Kings Lack The Caution Of Common Men 2011 – Game Of Thrones with Harry Lloyd & Emilia Clarke He was General Arcadius in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire which, I’ll admit, I’ve never seen, but I have seen Game Of Thrones. On his way to entering the political bear pit, Peter also had a couple of sword and sorcery type outings one was Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire and the other was a little known programme called Game Of Thrones. A repeatable Peter Mannion one…”Have you ever Googled your own name? It’s like opening a door to a room where everyone tells you how shit you are.” It is an endless tirade of very clever insults and put-downs. If you have even a passing interest in politics and aren’t worried by seeing a former Doctor Who as the angriest, rudest, sweariest man to ever appear on a TV screen, then I recommend The Thick Of It. Guest appearances on TV kept coming his way until 2007 saw him land the role of Peter Mannion in the political comedy The Thick Of It. Interestingly enough, the Inspector Morse appearance would turn out to be a future echo…more of that later, though! I’m Bored Of This. Throughout the nineties he made guest appearances in virtual every police procedural on British TV at the time: Inspector Morse, The Bill, Heartbeat, and Midsomer Murders all saw him popping up for an episode. However, it was on television that he made more appearances. For the life of me, though, I can’t remember Roger in it. Thirty years is a long time and I can remember seeing the film and being quite disappointed I’d enjoyed both Tom Sharpe’s books and Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones’ TV work but, for some reason unbeknownst to me, neither made a successful transfer to the big screen. He had a part in the 1989 adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s Wilt alongside, what was, one of the biggest comedy double acts of the time, Smith and Jones. The end of the eighties saw Mr Allam’s initial appearances on screen rather than stage.
My Heart Is Stone And Still It Trembles 1985 – Les Misérables with Colm Wilkinson After a year or so Allam sent that larynx back to the classic theatrical catalogue with performances in, amongst others, Measure For Measure, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Seagull, and an opportunity to flex his singing talents again in The Fairy Queen. He opened at the Barbican and moved with the production when it transferred to the Palace Theatre. That show was Les Misérables and Roger Allam’s vocal chords were the source of the original bass-baritone that was Javert. It would have been open continuously were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic which caused it to close from 16 th March 2020 to 25 th September 2021. 1985 saw the premiere of the English language version of a stage show that was set to shatter records. However, it was a different kind of stage work that really got him noticed. It’s Weasily Done 1979 – Sus with Paul Barber & Stuart BarrenĪs with a lot of actors over here, Roger started out on the stage and, before long, he was working with the RSC.