Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film, television and radio.
He has most famously played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables, Douglas Richardson in the award-winning radio series Cabin Pressure, and DI Fred Thursday in the TV series Endeavour.
He has been nominated four times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning twice. He has been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Best of Peter Mannion MP - Roger Allam in The Thick of It
Roger Allam appears in Armando Iannucci's sweary Shakespearean political hellscape as Peter Mannion MP, a man who is desperate to control the only thing he has left - his clothes.
If you haven't seen this yet I don't know what you're playing at. It's on Netflix in the UK and Britbox in the US. Probably other places too. It's very sweary, don't show it to your kids.
published: 29 Nov 2020
Allam in Les Mis 25th anniversary
published: 21 Dec 2014
'I'm a serious actor!' Roger Allam and Ian McKellen joke about their karaoke talents, dancing and dr
(27 Sep 2023)
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Allam and Ian McKellen, actors - on Allam's karaoke skills, as his character Frank does karaoke in "Frank and Percy":
Allam: "Well as you've seen, incredibly vastly proficient. Moving."
(Reporter: "Very good drunk acting.")
McKellen: "Enthusiastic."
Allam: "Yeah, well I've researched that. You know, I'm a serious actor."
(Reporter: "I loved your dancing scene as well - absolutely brought the house down.")
Allam: "I researched dancing badly as well. You know, that's what we do."
(Reporter: "Ian, what's your karaoke song of choice?")
McKellen: "Oh, my own personal one? (sings) 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye... here I go on my way.' Because, yes, I've never done karaoke because I like ...
published: 02 Oct 2023
you bought a bank
series 4 episode 3
published: 23 Sep 2012
Learn the Alphabet with Roger Allam
Devastatingly I have not been able to fully devote myself to my true life's purpose but I am pleased to return with this completely original video format. I am assured that no one else has done it yet.
Featuring fine performances by Roger Allam in the following roles:
Peter Mannion in The Thick Of It
Christopher in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Dennis Cornford in Inspector Morse
General Campion in Parade's End
Thomas Blunt in Stranded
Ted Wallace in The Hippopotamus
Nicholas Hardiment in Tamara Drewe
Bill Huxley in Say Your Prayers
John Mallory in The Jury
Adrian Stone in The Missing
Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2
Mungo Fentenman in The Robinsons
Royalton in Speed Racer
Benjamin Gold in Waking The Dead
Serebrayakov in Uncle Vanya
Fred Thursday in Endeavour
Charlie Baxter in The C...
published: 25 Apr 2021
Peter Mannion just wants to be in control of his own clothes - Roger Allam in The Thick of It
Poor Peter isn't allowed to smoke or dress himself. If the show had gone on they'd have given him a healthy eating initiative and he wouldn't even have been allowed to have his twix.
Peter is beset by bastards as follows:
Vincent Franklin as Stewart "Political Correctness Gone Boring" Pearson
Olivia Poulet as Emma "The Wrong Mitford Sister" Messinger
Will Smith as Phil "Closeted Regency Homosexual" Smith
I had to cut some clips down a little bit more than I wanted to for this video. Context is available via GDPR request and lengthy legal battle. Or you could watch the episodes.
published: 10 Aug 2021
Roger Allam's Best Laughs (Compilation)
A compilation of some of Roger's very fine laughs, taken from various TV and films.
Included are clips from:
The Angels' Share (2012)
Speed Racer (2008)
Ashes to Ashes (2009)
The Robinsons (2005)
Foyle's War (2002)
The Thick of It (this episode 2009 I think)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (2003)
The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
The Creatives (1998)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Manchild (2003)
I have been re-watching Endeavour in the hopes of a chuckle from Fred, but not a whole lot of mirth in that show.
published: 08 Oct 2020
Roger Allam as King Lear: ‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks’ | Shakespeare Solos
Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm. The ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.
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published: 03 Feb 2016
MASTERPEICE Endeavour Season 5 Roger Allam and Anton Lesser On Set Antics
published: 26 May 2021
A few of my favourite bits of Roger Allam as General Campion in Parade's End (2012)
Delivery and a fine moustache. This show would have been better if they had realised the main character was General Campion and not Bethesda Cumbernauld's cheekbones.
Roger Allam appears in Armando Iannucci's sweary Shakespearean political hellscape as Peter Mannion MP, a man who is desperate to control the only thing he has ...
Roger Allam appears in Armando Iannucci's sweary Shakespearean political hellscape as Peter Mannion MP, a man who is desperate to control the only thing he has left - his clothes.
If you haven't seen this yet I don't know what you're playing at. It's on Netflix in the UK and Britbox in the US. Probably other places too. It's very sweary, don't show it to your kids.
Roger Allam appears in Armando Iannucci's sweary Shakespearean political hellscape as Peter Mannion MP, a man who is desperate to control the only thing he has left - his clothes.
If you haven't seen this yet I don't know what you're playing at. It's on Netflix in the UK and Britbox in the US. Probably other places too. It's very sweary, don't show it to your kids.
(27 Sep 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 27 September 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Allam and Ian McKellen, actors - on Allam's karaoke skills, as his cha...
(27 Sep 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 27 September 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Allam and Ian McKellen, actors - on Allam's karaoke skills, as his character Frank does karaoke in "Frank and Percy":
Allam: "Well as you've seen, incredibly vastly proficient. Moving."
(Reporter: "Very good drunk acting.")
McKellen: "Enthusiastic."
Allam: "Yeah, well I've researched that. You know, I'm a serious actor."
(Reporter: "I loved your dancing scene as well - absolutely brought the house down.")
Allam: "I researched dancing badly as well. You know, that's what we do."
(Reporter: "Ian, what's your karaoke song of choice?")
McKellen: "Oh, my own personal one? (sings) 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye... here I go on my way.' Because, yes, I've never done karaoke because I like to rehearse and get it right and then do it. And I dare say there are karaoke enthusiasts who do just that, but on the whole it's people getting up when they're a bit drunk thinking, 'Oh, I'll have a go.' No, I'd rather sit back and watch them do it."
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(27 Sep 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 27 September 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Allam and Ian McKellen, actors - on Allam's karaoke skills, as his character Frank does karaoke in "Frank and Percy":
Allam: "Well as you've seen, incredibly vastly proficient. Moving."
(Reporter: "Very good drunk acting.")
McKellen: "Enthusiastic."
Allam: "Yeah, well I've researched that. You know, I'm a serious actor."
(Reporter: "I loved your dancing scene as well - absolutely brought the house down.")
Allam: "I researched dancing badly as well. You know, that's what we do."
(Reporter: "Ian, what's your karaoke song of choice?")
McKellen: "Oh, my own personal one? (sings) 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye... here I go on my way.' Because, yes, I've never done karaoke because I like to rehearse and get it right and then do it. And I dare say there are karaoke enthusiasts who do just that, but on the whole it's people getting up when they're a bit drunk thinking, 'Oh, I'll have a go.' No, I'd rather sit back and watch them do it."
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Devastatingly I have not been able to fully devote myself to my true life's purpose but I am pleased to return with this completely original video format. I am ...
Devastatingly I have not been able to fully devote myself to my true life's purpose but I am pleased to return with this completely original video format. I am assured that no one else has done it yet.
Featuring fine performances by Roger Allam in the following roles:
Peter Mannion in The Thick Of It
Christopher in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Dennis Cornford in Inspector Morse
General Campion in Parade's End
Thomas Blunt in Stranded
Ted Wallace in The Hippopotamus
Nicholas Hardiment in Tamara Drewe
Bill Huxley in Say Your Prayers
John Mallory in The Jury
Adrian Stone in The Missing
Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2
Mungo Fentenman in The Robinsons
Royalton in Speed Racer
Benjamin Gold in Waking The Dead
Serebrayakov in Uncle Vanya
Fred Thursday in Endeavour
Charlie Baxter in The Creatives
Devastatingly I have not been able to fully devote myself to my true life's purpose but I am pleased to return with this completely original video format. I am assured that no one else has done it yet.
Featuring fine performances by Roger Allam in the following roles:
Peter Mannion in The Thick Of It
Christopher in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Dennis Cornford in Inspector Morse
General Campion in Parade's End
Thomas Blunt in Stranded
Ted Wallace in The Hippopotamus
Nicholas Hardiment in Tamara Drewe
Bill Huxley in Say Your Prayers
John Mallory in The Jury
Adrian Stone in The Missing
Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2
Mungo Fentenman in The Robinsons
Royalton in Speed Racer
Benjamin Gold in Waking The Dead
Serebrayakov in Uncle Vanya
Fred Thursday in Endeavour
Charlie Baxter in The Creatives
Poor Peter isn't allowed to smoke or dress himself. If the show had gone on they'd have given him a healthy eating initiative and he wouldn't even have been all...
Poor Peter isn't allowed to smoke or dress himself. If the show had gone on they'd have given him a healthy eating initiative and he wouldn't even have been allowed to have his twix.
Peter is beset by bastards as follows:
Vincent Franklin as Stewart "Political Correctness Gone Boring" Pearson
Olivia Poulet as Emma "The Wrong Mitford Sister" Messinger
Will Smith as Phil "Closeted Regency Homosexual" Smith
I had to cut some clips down a little bit more than I wanted to for this video. Context is available via GDPR request and lengthy legal battle. Or you could watch the episodes.
Poor Peter isn't allowed to smoke or dress himself. If the show had gone on they'd have given him a healthy eating initiative and he wouldn't even have been allowed to have his twix.
Peter is beset by bastards as follows:
Vincent Franklin as Stewart "Political Correctness Gone Boring" Pearson
Olivia Poulet as Emma "The Wrong Mitford Sister" Messinger
Will Smith as Phil "Closeted Regency Homosexual" Smith
I had to cut some clips down a little bit more than I wanted to for this video. Context is available via GDPR request and lengthy legal battle. Or you could watch the episodes.
A compilation of some of Roger's very fine laughs, taken from various TV and films.
Included are clips from:
The Angels' Share (2012)
Speed Racer (2008)
Ashe...
A compilation of some of Roger's very fine laughs, taken from various TV and films.
Included are clips from:
The Angels' Share (2012)
Speed Racer (2008)
Ashes to Ashes (2009)
The Robinsons (2005)
Foyle's War (2002)
The Thick of It (this episode 2009 I think)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (2003)
The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
The Creatives (1998)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Manchild (2003)
I have been re-watching Endeavour in the hopes of a chuckle from Fred, but not a whole lot of mirth in that show.
A compilation of some of Roger's very fine laughs, taken from various TV and films.
Included are clips from:
The Angels' Share (2012)
Speed Racer (2008)
Ashes to Ashes (2009)
The Robinsons (2005)
Foyle's War (2002)
The Thick of It (this episode 2009 I think)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (2003)
The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
The Creatives (1998)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Manchild (2003)
I have been re-watching Endeavour in the hopes of a chuckle from Fred, but not a whole lot of mirth in that show.
Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm. The ageing king curses the weather and his daughte...
Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm. The ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.
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Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm. The ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.
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Delivery and a fine moustache. This show would have been better if they had realised the main character was General Campion and not Bethesda Cumbernauld's cheek...
Delivery and a fine moustache. This show would have been better if they had realised the main character was General Campion and not Bethesda Cumbernauld's cheekbones.
Delivery and a fine moustache. This show would have been better if they had realised the main character was General Campion and not Bethesda Cumbernauld's cheekbones.
Roger Allam appears in Armando Iannucci's sweary Shakespearean political hellscape as Peter Mannion MP, a man who is desperate to control the only thing he has left - his clothes.
If you haven't seen this yet I don't know what you're playing at. It's on Netflix in the UK and Britbox in the US. Probably other places too. It's very sweary, don't show it to your kids.
(27 Sep 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 27 September 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Allam and Ian McKellen, actors - on Allam's karaoke skills, as his character Frank does karaoke in "Frank and Percy":
Allam: "Well as you've seen, incredibly vastly proficient. Moving."
(Reporter: "Very good drunk acting.")
McKellen: "Enthusiastic."
Allam: "Yeah, well I've researched that. You know, I'm a serious actor."
(Reporter: "I loved your dancing scene as well - absolutely brought the house down.")
Allam: "I researched dancing badly as well. You know, that's what we do."
(Reporter: "Ian, what's your karaoke song of choice?")
McKellen: "Oh, my own personal one? (sings) 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye... here I go on my way.' Because, yes, I've never done karaoke because I like to rehearse and get it right and then do it. And I dare say there are karaoke enthusiasts who do just that, but on the whole it's people getting up when they're a bit drunk thinking, 'Oh, I'll have a go.' No, I'd rather sit back and watch them do it."
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Devastatingly I have not been able to fully devote myself to my true life's purpose but I am pleased to return with this completely original video format. I am assured that no one else has done it yet.
Featuring fine performances by Roger Allam in the following roles:
Peter Mannion in The Thick Of It
Christopher in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Dennis Cornford in Inspector Morse
General Campion in Parade's End
Thomas Blunt in Stranded
Ted Wallace in The Hippopotamus
Nicholas Hardiment in Tamara Drewe
Bill Huxley in Say Your Prayers
John Mallory in The Jury
Adrian Stone in The Missing
Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2
Mungo Fentenman in The Robinsons
Royalton in Speed Racer
Benjamin Gold in Waking The Dead
Serebrayakov in Uncle Vanya
Fred Thursday in Endeavour
Charlie Baxter in The Creatives
Poor Peter isn't allowed to smoke or dress himself. If the show had gone on they'd have given him a healthy eating initiative and he wouldn't even have been allowed to have his twix.
Peter is beset by bastards as follows:
Vincent Franklin as Stewart "Political Correctness Gone Boring" Pearson
Olivia Poulet as Emma "The Wrong Mitford Sister" Messinger
Will Smith as Phil "Closeted Regency Homosexual" Smith
I had to cut some clips down a little bit more than I wanted to for this video. Context is available via GDPR request and lengthy legal battle. Or you could watch the episodes.
A compilation of some of Roger's very fine laughs, taken from various TV and films.
Included are clips from:
The Angels' Share (2012)
Speed Racer (2008)
Ashes to Ashes (2009)
The Robinsons (2005)
Foyle's War (2002)
The Thick of It (this episode 2009 I think)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (2003)
The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
The Creatives (1998)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Manchild (2003)
I have been re-watching Endeavour in the hopes of a chuckle from Fred, but not a whole lot of mirth in that show.
Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm. The ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.
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Delivery and a fine moustache. This show would have been better if they had realised the main character was General Campion and not Bethesda Cumbernauld's cheekbones.
Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film, television and radio.
He has most famously played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables, Douglas Richardson in the award-winning radio series Cabin Pressure, and DI Fred Thursday in the TV series Endeavour.
He has been nominated four times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning twice. He has been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor.
A biopic about Henk Rogers, the man who licensed (he ...Instead, I was won over by Roger Allam's villainous portrayal of Robert Maxwell, a sort of business boogeyman determined to get Tetris for himself.
The Holdovers ...Memoria ... AP ... These include Roger Allam’s self-satisfied crime author, his long-suffering wife (Tamsin Greig) and a Thomas Hardy scholar (BillCamp) visiting their writers’ retreat, as sexual politics and romantic drama collide juicily ... .
Taskmaster is back for a new run of fun and games, Ballymanus tells the story of one of the worst tragedies in modern Irish history, while GreatIrishInteriors and Amazing Hotels. LifeBeyond the Lobby also return . ... Narrated by Roger Allam (above) ... .
Audience members told MailOnline the 85-year-old tumbled off the front of the stage in a 'belly flop fashion' and yelled 'help me... Audience left 'in tears' ... Ian McKellen (Percy) and Roger Allam (Frank) in the play Frank and Percy in 2023 ... .
Sir Ian McKellen lost his balance and went 'head first' into an audience before letting out a 'blood-curdling scream' during a West End performance last night ... EXCLUSIVE ... Ian McKellen (Percy) and Roger Allam (Frank) in the play Frank and Percy in 2023.
It is a reminder that our greatest theatrical knight has just turned 85 ... What better way is there to spend one’s dotage? ... No ... He hopes that Frank and Percy, the play that he and his friend Roger Allam took to the West End last year, will become a film ... .