Biography
Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Rees, licensed under ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...

The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind The Myth
2016
as William Bradford (Adult)
The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to define the founding moment of America, celebrated each year at Thanksgiving. A lavish new drama docume...

The Pilgrims
2015
as William Bradford
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th cent...

Survivor
2015
as Dr. Emil Balan
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri...

Affluenza
2014
as Mr. Carson
An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summe...

The Voysey Inheritance
2014
as Hugh Voysey
Young Edward discovers that the family business he is due to inherit has been defrauding clients for decades.

Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performance. The Russian Broadway community responds.

Almost Perfect
2011
as Kai Lee
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.

Happy Tears
2009
as Antiques Dealer
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.

The Narrows
2008
as Professor Reyerson
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how...

The Invasion
2007
as Yorish
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running r...

The Prestige
2006
as Owens
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy wit...

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006
as Mr. Hobbs
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by...

Falling for Grace
2006
as Andrew Barrington Sr
Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York's high society. At a socialite event, she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress and meets...

Game 6
2006
as Jack Haskins
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening...

The Pink Panther
2006
as Raymmond Laroque
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the di...

A Life in Suitcases
2005
as Tulse Luper
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.

Crazy Like a Fox
2004
as Nat Banks
This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of la...

Going Under
2004
as Peter
Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an S&a...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2004
as Tulse Luper
The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World W...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004
The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artist...

Frida
2002
as Guillermo Kahlo
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

The Scorpion King
2002
as King Pheron
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's...

Return to Never Land
2002
as Edward (voice)
In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Pete...

3 A.M.
2001
as Priest
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory,...

Blackmale
2000
as Bill Fontaine
Two desperate con men attempt to blackmail a psychotic doctor who may just be a serial killer.

The Crossing
2000
as Gen. Hugh Mercer
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
2000
as Dr. Croft
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Peter Quince
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...

Double Platinum
1999
as Marc Reckler
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

Next Stop Wonderland
1998
as Ray Thornback
Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad in the "personals" section of a...

Trouble on the Corner
1997
as Mr. McMurtry
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in...

Sudden Manhattan
1996
as Murphy
Twenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself upside down, and she is suddenly faced with one absurdity ...

The Substance of Fire
1996
as Max
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr...

The Possession of Michael D.
1995
as Robin Banks (Hypnotist)
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a d...

The Tower
1993
as Mr. Littlehill
A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993
as Sheriff of Rotingham
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules Englan...

'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
1993
as Self
Hosted by Cary Elwes. It's a promotional piece that was intended to get the word out about the film while it was in production, but some of the behind...

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992
as Parnell
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she bu...

P.J. Sparkles
1992
as Betty (voice)
PJ is an orphan with no last name and she has a special wish, she wants someone to love. One night while out riding her grey horse Blaze, PJ gets her ...

Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After
1992
as Prince Charles
Biography - First telecast in 1982, this drama picks up the story of Prince Charles (Roger Rees) and Lady Diana (Catherine Oxenberg) as their marriage...

If Looks Could Kill
1991
as Augustus Steranko
Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. ...

Next
1990
as Peter (voice)
William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.

Mountains of the Moon
1990
as Papworth
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...

The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
as Jason Cross
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's...

God's Outlaw
1986
as William Tyndale
A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds...

A Christmas Carol
1984
as Fred Holywell / Narrator
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Ebony Tower
1984
as David Williams
A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ...

Saigon: Year Of The Cat
1983
as Donald Henderson
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Ches...

Star 80
1983
as Aram Nicholas
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the...

Imaginary Friends
1982
as Douglas Pitblado
Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him he...
The Three Sisters
1981
as Tusenbach
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga att...

Macbeth
1979
as Malcolm
Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Tele...

The Comedy of Errors
1978
as Antipholus of Syracuse
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together ...