John Carlisle

John Carlisle (6 September 1935

Television and film While appearing in repertory at Birmingham, Carlisle was spotted by an ATV casting director and asked to audition for the hospital drama series Emergency Ward 10. Carlisle first assumed the role of the young doctor Lester Large in episode 533, in 1962. His character became a regular in the show, and Carlisle made numerous appearances including in the final episode of the long-running series in 1967.

He starred alongside John Woodvine in the London Weekend Television crime series New Scotland Yard from 1972 to 1973. In 1979, Carlisle appeared in the BBC series The Omega Factor as the morally ambiguous psychiatrist Dr. Roy Martindale. In 2002 he portrayed the important supporting role of James Forsyte, father of Soames Forsyte, in The Forsyte Saga.

He also made one-off appearances in series such as The Avengers, Z-Cars, Strange Report, Dixon of Dock Green, Lovejoy, The Black Adder, Hustle, Holby City, Robin Hood, The Catherine Tate Show, Midsomer Murders, Between the Lines, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Doctors.

On film, Carlisle played the elderly Private Mirus in the 2001 horror film The Bunker. He also had small roles in Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah (2005) and in Forget Me Not (2010).

Carlisle died in London, England, UK on 7 December 2011, aged 76. As an Associate Artist with the RSC he appeared in a great number of plays, including The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Seagull and Per Gynt. In later years he worked prominently at the National Theatre.

Selected stage work 1970 – The Boys in the Band (as director and actor) 1978 – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 1980/1981 – Richard III 1981 – The Maid's Tragedy 1982 – The Taming of the Shrew 1982–85 – Much Ado About Nothing 1984 – Softcops 1984 – Love's Labour's Lost 1984–1985 – Henry V 1984–1986 – Richard III 1986 – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1987 – Hyde Park 1987/1988 – The Jew of Malta 1987–1988 – Twelfth Night 1988 – A Question of Geography 1989 – Cymbeline 1990 – Two Shakespeare Actors 1990 – The Seagull 1990/1991 – Much Ado About Nothing 1994 – Ghosts 1994/1995 – Alice's Adventures Underground 1995 – Cain 1996 – The Painter of Dishonour 1997 – A Doll's House 1997/1998 – The Invention of Love 2000 – Semi Monde 2002 – The Coast of Utopia 2003/04 – His Dark Materials 2005 – Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 2005 – As You Desire Me

Audio work 1994 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (abridged, Naxos AudioBooks) 1994 – Fast Coach To Gneixendorf (BBC) 1995 – A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC) 1996 – Framely Parsonage (BBC) 1997 – A House By The Sea (BBC) 1998 – The Birds Fall Down (BBC Radio 4) 1999 – The Invention of Love (BBC Radio 3) 2001 – King Lear (BBC R3) 2002 – His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (BBC R4) 2002 – Wife To Mr. Milton (BBC R4) 2003 – Our Kath (BBC R4) 2003 – Strangers and Brothers (BBC R4) 2004 – Miracle Postponed (BBC R4) 2005 – Fragments (BBC R4) 2006 – Street And Lane (BBC R4) 2007 – Felix Holt, The Radical (BBC) ??? – Byron (ballet by Paul Reid) (BBC)