Oliver Tobias is a UK-based film, stage, and television actor

Actor

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 and director

Film director

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Born Oliver Tobias Freitag in Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, he is the son of Austrian-Swiss actor Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director.- Life :...

 and German actress Maria Becker. He came to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 at the age of eight and trained at East 15 Acting School

East 15 Acting School

East 15 is a British drama school in Debden, Loughton, Essex. At the main campus, Loughton, it occupies an 18th century mansion, Hatfields, and has its own theatre, the Corbett, which is adjacent. The Corbett Theatre is an adaptation of a 15th-century barn...

, London

London

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. In 1968 he appeared in the original London production of Hair

Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...

, playing the prime rebel role of Berger. The following year he starred in, directed, and choreographed the rock opera in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 and again directed a production in 1970 in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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.

Tobias's first role was in the feature film Romance of a Horsethief, co-starring with Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner was a Russian-born actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film version; he also played the role more than 4,500 times on...

, Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

 and Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

. He then co-starred with Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

 in the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins...

, a film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there...

. He became popular as King Arthur in the TV series Arthur of the Britons

Arthur of the Britons

Arthur of the Britons is a British television show about the historical King Arthur. Produced by the HTV regional franchise, it consisted of two series, released between 1972 and 1973...

(1972). Peter Weir

Peter Weir

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 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

Joan Collins

Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE , is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she made her stage debut in A Doll's House and after attending school, she was classically trained as an actress...

, helping her to re-start her career. Oliver also appeared in the pop promo video for pop group Ultravox

Ultravox

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's 1982 hit "Hymn".

In 2000, Tobias starred in the West End musical La Cava

La Cava

La Cava is a musical with a book by Dana Broccoli, lyrics by John Claflin and Laurence O'Keefe, additional lyrics by Shaun McKenna and music by O'Keefe and Stephen Keeling....

. Three years later he portrayed Percival Brown in the 50th anniversary production of The Boyfriend and the next year toured in the rock musical Footloose

Footloose (musical)

Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow , the lyrics by Dean Pitchford , and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.-Act 1:...

. 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 divorced from Camilla Ravenshear, with whom he has two daughters, Angelika and Celeste. In 2001 he married Polish-born Arabella Zamoyska, with whom he has a child. They live in London. Arabella suffered a complete nervous breakdown and spent a considerable amount of time recovering in a private psychiatric facility.

Filmography

1970

• Feature film: Romance of a Horsethief
• Directed by: Abraham Polonsky
  Abraham Polonsky
  Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.-Early life:...
  
  
• Produced by: Gene Gutowski
  Gene Gutowski
  Gene Gutowski born as Witold Bardach Son of Julius Bardach and Anna Bardach ....
  
  
• Co-starring with Yul Brynner
  Yul Brynner
  Yul Brynner was a Russian-born actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film version; he also played the role more than 4,500 times on...
  
  , Eli Wallach
  Eli Wallach
  Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
  
  , Jane Birkin
  Jane Birkin
  Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...
  
  , Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...
  
  , Lainie Kazan
  Lainie Kazan
  Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer.-Personal life:Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Turkish Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and...
  
  

1971

• Feature film: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
  'Tis Pity She's a Whore
  'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins...
  
  
• Directed by: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
  Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
  Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there...
  
  
• Lighting by: Victorio Storaro
• Co-starring with Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
  
  .

1973

• Feature film: The God King
  The God King
  The God King is a 1974 British-Sri Lankan historical film directed by Lester James Peries. The film is based on the historical clash between brothers Kasyapa and Moggalana on Sigiriya Rock....
  
  
• Set in Ceylon (Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
  )
• Directed by: Lester James Peries
  Lester James Peries
  Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1949, Peries has been involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
  
• Produced by: Dimitri de Grunwald
• Role of General Migara.

1977–78

• Feature film: The Stud
• Directed by: Quentin Masters
• Produced by: Brent Walker
• Co-starring with Joan Collins
  Joan Collins
  Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE , is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she made her stage debut in A Doll's House and after attending school, she was classically trained as an actress...
  
  

1979

• Feature film: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
  A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (film)
  A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is a 1979 British heist film directed by Ralph Thomas, written by Guy Elmes and starring Richard Jordan, Oliver Tobias, and David Niven...
  
  
• Directed by: Ralph Thomas
  Ralph Thomas
  Ralph Thomas was an English film director, born in Hull. He is perhaps best known for directing the Doctor series of films....
  
  
• Produced by: Benjamin Fisz
• Co-starring with Richard Jordan
  Richard Jordan
  Richard Jordan was an American stage, screen and film actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays...
  
  , David Niven
  David Niven
  James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
  
  

1979

• Feature film: Arabian Adventure
  Arabian Adventure
  Arabian Adventure is a 1979 fantasy adventure film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Christopher Lee and Oliver Tobias. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, U.K.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• Directed by: Kevin Connor
• Produced by: EMI
• Co-starring with Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
  
  , Peter Cushing
  Peter Cushing
  Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...
  
  , Milo O'Shea
  Milo O'Shea
  -Early life:He was born and raised in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers at Synge Street, along with his friend Donal Donnelly.He was discovered in the 1950s by Harry Dillon, who ran the "37 Theatre Club" on the top floor of his shop The Swiss Gem Company, 51 Lower O'Connell Street...
  
  , Emma Samms
  Emma Samms
  Emma Samms is a British television actress best known for her role as Holly Sutton on the American daytime soap opera General Hospital and for replacing Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon Carrington Colby on the primetime soap opera Dynasty.-Early life:Samms was born in Willesden, London, England, the...
  
  

1981

• TV Series Smuggler
• Children's Drama
• Starring role
• International Co-Production
• Produced by: Paul Knight & Sidney Cole
  Sidney Cole
  Sidney Henry Cole was a British film and television producer and editor.Cole was educated at the LSE, and entered the film industry as a scenario reader for Stoll Picture Productions, a company founded by Sir Oswald Stoll...
  
  

1981

• Feature film: The Wicked Lady
  The Wicked Lady (1983 film)
  The Wicked Lady is a 1983 British drama film directed by Michael Winner. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name, which was one of the popular series of Gainsborough melodramas....
  
  
• Directed by: Michael Winner
  Michael Winner
  Michael Robert Winner is a British film director and producer, active in both Europe and the United States, also known as a food critic for the Sunday Times.-Early life and early career :...
  
  
• Co-starring with: Denholm Elliot, John Gielgud
  John Gielgud
  Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...
  
  , Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...
  
  
• Role of Kit Locksby.

1984

• Feature film: Mata Hari
  Mata Hari (1985 film)
  Mata Hari is a 1985 film produced by Golan-Globus featuring Sylvia Kristel in the title role of exotic dancer Mata Hari, executed for espionage during World War I...
  
  
• Directed by: Curtis Harrington
  Curtis Harrington
  Curtis Harrington was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic television.-Biography:...
  
  
• Co-starring with Christopher Cazenove
  Christopher Cazenove
  Christopher Cazenove was an English cinema, television and stage actor.-Early life and career:He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, the son of Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset...
  
   and Sylvia Kristel
  Sylvia Kristel
  Sylvia Kristel is a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle.- Early life :...
  
  

1985

• Feature film: Cobra Mission (aka Operation 'Nam)
• Directed by: Fabrizio de Angelis
• Produced by: Larry Ludlum
• Role of Vietnam veteran.

1985

• TV Series: Robin of Sherwood
  Robin of Sherwood
  Robin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...
  
  
• Episode: "Lord of the Trees"
• Role of Bertrand de Nivelles
• Produced by: Paul Knight

1986

• TV Series: "Sherlock Holmes"
• Episode: "The Abbey Grange"
• Role of Captain Crocker
• Feature film: Johann Strauss
• Directed by: Franz Antel
  Franz Antel
  Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale...
  
  
• Produced by: Johann Strauss Productions, Vienna
• Title role.

1993

• Feature film: Nexus
• Produced by: Golden Pictures Production
• Role of galactic megalomaniac.

1994

• Feature film: Vendetta
• Directed by: Mikael Halfstrom
• Role of Colonel da Piemonte
• Feature film: Savage Hearts
• Directed by: Mark Ezra
• Produced by: Mark Ezra Productions
• Role of country gent

1995

• Feature film: The Brylcreem Boys
  The Brylcreem Boys
  The Brylcreem Boys is a 1998 film directed and co-written by Terence Ryan about the extraordinary neutrality arrangements pertaining to Ireland during World War II, by the Éamon de Valera government...
  
  
• Directed by: Terence Ryan
  Terence Ryan
  Terence Ryan is a British film director, writer, and producer.He has written, directed and produced eight feature films and he as also produced and directed an enormous variety of television programs and television series ranging from serious drama and comedy to sport, music and...
  
  
• Produced by: Paul Madigan
• Role of U-boat captain Wolf.

1997

• Feature film: Breeders
• Directed by: Paul Mathews
• Produced by: Peakviewing Transatlantic
• Role of police Lt Moore
• Feature film: Darkness Falls
  Darkness Falls (1999 film)
  Darkness Falls is a 1999 drama film by John Howlett and directed by Gerry Lively.The film was shot in late 1997 on the Isle of Man.-Plot:...
  
  
• Directed by: Gerry Lively
  Gerry Lively
  Gerry Lively is a cinematographer and film director, known for directing Darkness Falls , Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God and Body Armour .-External links:...
  
  
• Co-starring with Ray Winstone
  Ray Winstone
  Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone is an English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood. He has also become well known as a voice over...
  
  , Tim Dutton
  Tim Dutton
  Tim Dutton is a British actor. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.Dutton has appeared on stage, in film, and in television series. Among the films are Darkness Falls , The Bourne Identity , and The Detonator...
  
  

1998

• Feature Film: Mozart in Turkey
• Performance of Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Die Entführung aus dem Serail is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie...
  
  
• Directed by: Elijah Moshinsky
• Produced by: Antelope Film Productions for BBC2
  BBC Two
  BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
  
  
• Role of Bassa Selim

1999

• Feature film: Grizzly Falls
  Grizzly Falls
  Grizzly Falls is a film from 1999 about a boy and a bear, set in British Columbia in the early 20th century.-Plot:The film starts with an old man, Harry Banks telling his grandson and granddaughter about his life as a young boy in the early 20th century.The tale begins: Harry as a boy is in his...
  
  
• Directed by: Stewart Raffill
  Stewart Raffill
  Stewart Raffill is an American director and writer of many films.Raffill's The Philadelphia Experiment, won the "Best Film" award of the 1985 Fantafestival. While You Were Waiting, won the Silver Award in the Short Dramatic category of the 2002 Atlantic City Film Festival. In 2009, he directed...
  
  
• Produced by: Behaviour Worldwide / Norstar Filmed Entertainment
• Role of Genet

2003

• Short Film: Half Empty
• Directed by: Charles Masters
• Lead Role
• Feature Film: Method
  Method (film)
  Method is a 2004 thriller film directed by Duncan Roy. The international co-production is a film within a film about a cast and crew who are in Romania to make a film about serial killer, Belle Gunness.-Plot:...
  
  
• Director Duncan Roy
  Duncan Roy
  Duncan Roy , is an English film director and producer, script writer, art director and television personality.-Early life:...
  
  
• With Liz Hurley
  Elizabeth Hurley
  Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los...
  
  
• Role Film director

External links

• Official site