John McEnery

For the Louisiana Democratic politician, see John McEnery (politician). For the nineteenth century antiquarian and priest, see John MacEnery.

John McEnery
Born	(1943-11-01) 1 November 1943 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–present
Spouse	Stephanie Beacham (m. 1973–1979)
Children	2

John McEnery (born 1 November 1943) is an English actor and writer.

Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, he trained (1962–64) at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, playing, among others, Mosca in Ben Jonson's Volpone and Gaveston in Marlowe's Edward II. At the age of 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the National Theatre company in 1966. While working at the Everyman, he met actress Stephanie Beacham, whom he later married. The couple had two daughters but subsequently divorced.

His first notable screen role was in 1968 as Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet; he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance. He took the title role in the 1970 film Bartleby, in which he starred opposite Paul Scofield. In 1971 he starred in a major role alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet The Boat on the Grass about a girl between two friends. In this film are references to his stage roles when he declaim Hamlet or when he sing in duet with Claude Jade God Save the Queen. He later played Russian politician Alexander Kerensky in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). His other film credits include The Land That Time Forgot (1975) and The Krays (1990) as gangster Eddie Pellam.

In the 1980s, at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, he took the title role in Gogol's The Government Inspector, directed by the Russian actor and director Oleg Tabakov.

In 1998 he wrote the play Merry Christmas, Mr. Burbage in honour of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Globe Theatre. In 2011 he appeared as Rowley in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander.

One of his brothers is actor Peter McEnery, and another is photographer David McEnery.

Partial filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Othello	Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots
1968	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio
	The Other People	John
1970	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Yves-Marie aka Philippe
	Bartleby	Bartleby
1971	The Boat on the Grass	Oliver
	Nicholas and Alexandra	Kerensky
1972	The Ragman's Daughter	Old man in wagon
1973	One Russian Summer	Vadim
1974	Little Malcolm	Wick Blagdon
	The Land That Time Forgot	Captain Von Schoenvorts
	Galileo	Federzoni
1976	Schizo	Stephens	uncredited
1977	The Duellists	Chevalier
1978	The Word	Florian Knight	TV miniseries
1983	Jamaica Inn	Reverend Francis Davey	TV miniseries
1987	Little Dorrit	Captain Hopkins
1990	The Krays	Eddie Pellam
	The Fool	Mr. Maclean
	Hamlet	Osric
1991	Prince of Shadows	Walter
1993	The Buddha of Suburbia	Uncle Ted	TV miniseries
1994	Black Beauty	Mr. York
1996	When Saturday Comes	Joe Muir
1998	Merlin	Lord Ardente
1998	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Jack Durbeyfield	London Weekend Television serial
2003	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Apothecary

External links

• John McEnery at IMDb
• John McEnery at the Internet Broadway Database