Sidney Livingstone

Sidney Frederick Livingstone (born 29 March 1945) is an English stage, television, and film character actor. He has sometimes been credited as Sydney Livingstone.

Early life Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, Livingstone was an apprentice chef, a salesman, and a plumber's merchant, before gaining a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and training as an actor. He graduated in 1969.

Career Livingstone's acting career began on stage, and by 1973 he was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre Coriolanus (Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1973) as Officer Hindle Wakes as Sir Timothy Farrar Inherit the Wind (The Old Vic, directed Trevor Nunn) as Bannister A Chorus of Disapproval (1985) as Jarvis Richard II (Old Vic Theatre, directed Trevor Nunn) as Bishop of Carlisle Hamlet (Old Vic Theatre, directed Trevor Nunn) as Voltimand Timon of Athens (Young Vic, directed Trevor Nunn) as Lucullus Sitting Pretty as Max Oklahoma! (Royal National Theatre) as Andrew Carnes Arcadia (Royal National Theatre, 1993) as Richard Noakes Measure for Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company) as Provost The Blue Angel (Royal Shakespeare Company, directed Trevor Nunn) as Bombler Acorn Antiques: The Musical! (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2005) as Ken Crazy for You (West End, 2011) as Everett Baker

Films The Ragman's Daughter (1972) as Borstal Instructor Antony and Cleopatra (1974) as Mardian The Body in the Library (1984) as Brogan Lifeforce (1985) as Ned Price Passion Killers (1999) as Fred Oklahoma! (1999) as Andrew Carnes Hatton Garden: the Heist (2016) as Brian Reader

Television Coronation Street (1976) as Roy Thornley Happy Since I Met You (television play, 1981) as Dennis Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984) as Brogan The Crucifer of Blood (1991) as Roly Lamas Dir Jeeves and Wooster: Trouble at Totleigh Towers and The Ties that Bind (1993) as Constable Oates Midsomer Murders: Days of Misrule (2008) as Don Mitchinson The Devil's Hour (2022) as Gerald Bell