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.[1]

Career

Livingstone's acting career began on stage, and by 1973 he was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.[2] He appeared in several productions directed by Trevor Nunn, including Richard II, Hamlet, Timon of Athens and The Blue Angel. An early film role came in The Ragman's Daughter (1972).

In 1974 he played Mardian in the television film Antony and Cleopatra. His many other television credits include Jeeves and Wooster in which he played the role of Constable Oats, Crown Court, Shine on Harvey Moon, Minder, and Boon. In 2016, he starred as Brian Reader in the British film Hatton Garden: the Heist.[3]

Theatre

Films

Television

Notes

  1. Sidney Livingstone, jag-london.com, accessed 22 May 2022
  2. 1 2 RSC Performances Coriolanus 1973, shakespeare.org.uk, accessed 22 May 2022
  3. Hatton Garden the Heist (2016), themoviescene.co.uk, accessed 21 May 2022
  4. Arcadia (1993), National Theatre Archive, accessed 3 August 2021
  5. Charles P. Mitchell, A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema (2001), p. 112
  6. "Gail Potter (Helen Worth) hogs a lunch date with Roy Thornley (Sidney Livingstone)", Belfast Telegraph, 26 July 1976, p. 6
  7. Terry Rowan, Whodoneit! A Film Guide (2014), p. 228
  8. Chris Perry, The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 (2016), p. 374
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