Nicholas Le Prevost

Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor.

Early life

Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964. At school, he studied Ecclesiastical Architecture, and has said that, had he not become an actor, he would have liked to be an architect. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1][2]

Acting career

His TV and radio credits include Coronation Street, The Imitation Game, It Takes a Worried Man, The Jewel in the Crown, HR, Brideshead Revisited, The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, Babblewick Hall, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Up the Garden Path, The War of the Worlds, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Vicar of Dibley and A Man for All Seasons.[3][4]

At the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards, he was nominated for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical or Entertainment, for his performance in a 2001 West End production of My Fair Lady.[5] Also in 2002, he appeared as Benedick in Gregory Doran's production of Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, opposite Harriet Walter.[6][7]

Since 2003, Le Prevost has been portraying Georges Simenon's fictional detective Jules Maigret for BBC Radio, replacing the late Maurice Denham in the role.[8] In 2005, he appeared as W. Somerset Maugham in a BBC Radio adaption of the author's novel The Razor's Edge.[9]

His film work includes Clockwise, The Girl in a Swing, and Shakespeare in Love.[3] In 2009 he appeared on television in Margaret.[10]

In July 2010, he appeared in a double bill of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.[11]

In 2010, he appeared in ITV drama Wild at Heart as Gene.[12]

From February 2015, he appeared in Man and Superman at the National Theatre, London.[13]

Le Prevost is a director of The Wrestling School, a London theatre company specialising in the work of Howard Barker.[12]

In 2015, he appeared as Count Fiskon in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode "The Lair of the Libertines".[14] In 2016, he had a cameo role as an investment banker for a fictitious London-based firm called Waterston and Price in the Danish thriller Follow the Money, which was shown on BBC 4 in spring of that year.

Partial filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1975 The Nearly Man Phillip Episode: "Millie - May 1945"
1976-8 The Ghosts of Motley Hall Sir Francis 'Fanny' Uproar/

St John Desmond

 20 episodes
1977 Don't Forget to Write! Dusty 2 episodes
1978 Crown Court Tony Hodgson Episode: "The Song Not the Singer"
1979 Bless Me, Father Dr Spinks Episode: "Father Neil's First Miracle"
BBC2 Playhouse Peter Molyneux An Affinity With Dr Still
1979-81 Shelley Inspector/ Nayland 2 episodes
1980 Play For Today Turner The Imitation Game
1981 Brideshead Revisited Doctor Episode: "The Unseen Hook"
The Borgias Baglioni 5 episodes
Strangers Silas Wagstaff Episode: "The Flowers of Edinburgh"
1981-3 It Takes a Worried Man Simon 12 episodes
1982 Crystal Gazing Examiner No.1 Film
The Agatha Christie Hour Derek Wainwright In a Glass Darkly
1982-4 Crown Court John Fletcher-Reed 3 episodes
1983 The Bounder Softly Simpson Episode: "A Genuine Simpson"
Jemima Shore Investigates Nick Beckleigh Episode: "A Promising Death"
1984 The Jewel in the Crown Nigel Rowan 6 episodes
Dr. Fischer of Geneva Albert TV movie
1985 Time and the Conways Gerald Thornton TV movie
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes Roy Donahue Episode: "One Way"
Clockwise Headmaster No.3 Film
Screen Two Alistair Hard Travelling
1988 The Girl in a Swing Vicar Film
South of the Border Bridger 1 episode
1989 The Ginger Tree Sir Claude MacDonald 2 episodes
1990 Stolen Tom 4 episodes
1990-3 Up the Garden Path Michael 17 episodes
1991 The Lost Language of Cranes Nick Film
Van Der Valk Van Hoorn Episode: "A Sudden Silence"
1992 The Camomile Lawn Hamish/ Hector 5 episodes
1993 Lovejoy Bill Parker Episode: "Ducking and Diving"
Harnessing Peacocks Mungo Duff TV movie
1994 The Vicar of Dibley Daniel Frobisher Episode: "The Window and the Weather"
1995 Inspector Morse Dr. Alan Hardinge Episode: "The Way Through the Woods"
1996 Letters from the East Alan Film
1998 Midsomer Murders Esslyn Carmichael Episode: "Death of a Hollow Man"
The Land Girls Agricultural Officer Film
Shakespeare in Love Sir Robert De Lesseps Film
2000 Being Considered Houston Jones Film
2001 Kavanagh QC Lord Cranston Episode: "The End of Law"
2003 Bright Young Things Lord Maitland Film
Fortysomething Peter Mailer 1 episode
Foyle's War Arthur Lewes Episode: "Fifty Ships"
2003-4 My Dad's The Prime Minister Headmaster 2 episodes
2004 Gladiatress Crassus Film
2005 The Murder Room Marcus Dupayne 2 episodes
Absolute Power Lord Henry Cox-Wycliffe Episode: "The Nation's Favourite"
2006 Poirot Major James Porter Episode: "Taken at the Flood"
Silent Witness Professor Lionel Clune 2 episodes
2008 Miss Conception Dr. Dupompe Film
Broken Lines Alistair Film
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Ken TV movie
2009 Midsomer Murders Jerry Drinkwater Episode: "The Dogleg Murders"
Cranford Mr. Peter Jenkins 2 episodes
Doc Martin Robert 2 episodes
Psychoville Graham 2 episodes
2010 Made in Romania Cedric Winters Film
Wild at Heart Gene 1 episode
2012 Run for Your Wife D. S. Porterhouse Film
2014 Testament of Youth Mr. Leighton Film
2015 Father Brown Count Fiskon Episode: "The Lair of the Libertines"
2019 Here Comes Hell Ichabod Quinn Film
The War of the Worlds Chamberlain 2 episodes
2022 The Larkins Sir George Bluff-Gore 3 episodes

References
  1. "Brief Encounter With … Nicholas Le Prevost - WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com.
  2. Fabrique. "Nicholas Le Prevost — RADA". www.rada.ac.uk.
  3. "Nicholas Le Prevost". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  4. "Nicholas Le Prevost". www.aveleyman.com.
  5. Staff; agencies (17 January 2002). "Broadway musicals lead Olivier nominations". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  6. "Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford-Upon-Avon". the Guardian. 10 May 2002. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  7. "Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford-Upon-Avon". the Guardian. 10 May 2002.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - George Simenon - Maigret, Series 1, My Friend Maigret". BBC.
  9. "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge, episode 1". BBC.
  10. "Margaret (2009)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017.
  11. Spencer, Charles (12 July 2010). "The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, review" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  12. "Orange Tree TheatreWinter Solstice - Whats On - Orange Tree Theatre". www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk.
  13. Billington, Michael (26 February 2015). "Man and Superman review – Ralph Fiennes masters Shaw's contrary male". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  14. "BBC One - Father Brown, Series 3, The Lair of the Libertines". BBC.
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