Brian Deacon

Brian's teaching specialises in liberating the imagination, honouring the text, Shakespeare to Pinter, rhythm and rhyme, cold readings and audition preparation, the language and technology of film, and perhaps most importantly, how to search out and release the emotional memory.

Films include: Gunner Barton, opposite Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed in, The Triple Echo. Il Bacio da una Morta. The title role in, Jesus. His life and Times (Warner Brothers). Oswald in Peter Greenaway's, A Zed and two Noughts, co-starring his brother Eric.

Television credits include Lewisham in, Love and Mr Lewisham. Oswald in Ghosts (TV ). The Emigrants ( BBC ). Separates Tables ( Cable Films ). Bleak House (BBC). Inappropriate Behaviour ( BBC ). Me and my Girl. Bugs (BBC). Neil Kincaid in Emmerdale ( YTV ).

Stage appearances include: Dealer;s Choice ( Stoke). Rochester in Jane Eyre. Iago in Othello. Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tours). Arms and the Man, Zoo Story ( Open Air Theatre, Regents Park). Curse of the Starving Class (Royal Court ). Octavius Caesar in "Anthony and Cleopatra" ( Young Vic). Madame Bovary ( Palace, Watford ).

In the West End he starred in: Exclusive Yarns. The Woman in Black (Fortune). Dial M for Murder (Apollo). Brief Encounter ( Lyric)

Brian has voiced numerous TV and radio commercials and recently a number of characters for Lucas Films Stars Wars games "Knights of the Empire".