Stephan Chase

Stephan Chase (born Stephan de Montaignac; 8 February 1945 - 27 June 2019) was a British actor of Cornish and Scots descent. He was educated in Ireland and England. Before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, he won a scholarship and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) later becoming an Associate of RADA.

He played Hamlet in 1975 in a British Council / Regent's Park Open Air Theatre touring production in India and Ceylon. He appeared as a leading man in feature films, TV plays and series and the West End theatre, such as Rules of the Game (1982), directed by Anthony Quayle, until he founded and ran the Rhubarb Agency 1988–2005. During this time, Chase also worked as an audio producer and director. He subsequently worked as a teacher and coach in London, but in 2011 he began working as an actor again.

He died on 27 June 2019 in London at the age of 74. - Captain Stephen Durnford / Stephen Durnford The Talisman (1980, Prod Barry Letts) - Richard I of England Take Three Women (1982) - Joe Black Arrow (1985, TV Movie, Dir. John Hough) - Black Arrow Florence Nightingale (1985, TV Movie, Dir. Daryl Duke proposed for Emmy Nomination for Dr.Sutherland) - Dr. Sutherland Dempsey and Makepeace (1986) - Edwards A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990, TV Movie) - Deal The Governor (1995) - Architect Richard Greenleaves

Theatre The musical, Katie Mulholland (1983 as Bernard Rosier, by Catherine Cookson DBE Dir Ken Hill (playwright)) The Teddy Bears' Picnic (1987 by David Pinner, Dir Philip Partridge) Liberty Oregon (1994 as Novitski, at the Edinburgh Festival Dir Natasha Carlish) Suddenly Last Summer (1996 as Cucrovitz, by Tennessee Williams)