His resume of roles includes Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ebenezer Scrooge and Oedipus Rex. His career has encompassed theatre and television in England, Canada and the United States. With a gift for developing offbeat characters, Barry Morse has had a prolific acting career, and the story of his life is a veritable history of 20th century theatre from the days before World War II through the early 21st century.
In this memoir Morse traces his life and career, including his years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his radio jobs with the BBC, his 60-year marriage to actress Sydney Sturgess and their years together in the Court Players, his roles on television shows (The Fugitive, Space: 1999), and his acquaintance with literary lights (George Bernard Shaw) and screen stars (Robert Mitchum and Peter Cushing). Photographs from the Morse family collection are included.

The late Barry Morse was an actor, director and writer who lived in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents


Foreword by Martin Landau      

Preface     


1. "Make Much of Your Horses!"     

2. "Troublesome and Truculent"     

3. "Curiously Touching"     

4. "A Sharp Twist"     

5. "There's No Shame in It"     

6. "Flukes and Coincidences"     

7. "It's Just a Fad-Like the Yo-Yo"     

8. "The Voice of the Turtle"     

9. "Tell Me All Your Troubles"     

10. "Just Mounties and Polar Bears"     

11. "Pioneers and Bureaucrats"     

12. "Those Were My Salad Days"     

13. "Immigration Application Supplication Blues"     

14. "Chasing the Fugitive"     

15. "How the Other Half Lives"     

16. "A Season to Remember"     

17. "Just an Old Circus Horse"     

18. "Casa Calmada"     

19. "Drama Is About Chaps"     

20. "Don't Leave Home Without It"     

21. "One for Everybody and Two for Mr. Mitchum!"     

22. "The Golden Journey"     

23. "Battling On Bravely"     

24. "Better Than Myself "     


Index