Tim Seely

Tim Seely Biography

Tim Seely (born 10 June 1935) is an English film, radio, television and theatre actor.

Early life and education

Seely studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

In 1957, he gave his theatre debut in the play Tea and Sympathy at the London Comedy Theatre. Seely played the young Tom Lee, who fell in love with the senior Laura, played by Elizabeth Sellars. He played the same role in the adaption at New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool. There he also played Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. In 1958, he acted alongside Maggie Smith at the London St Martin's Theatre in an adaption of The Stepmother.

Seely was member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, with whom he acted the title role in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He also had roles in various Shakespeare plays, including as Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Polonius in Hamlet, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and the King of France in All's Well That Ends Well.

In the late 1950s, he also took roles in film and television productions. One of his more prominent roles was Midshipmen Ned Young in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, where Seely played alongside Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.

Filmography and television work

1958: Sally's Irish Rogue
1958-1960: Armchair Theatre (television series, three episodes)
1959: The Offshore Island (television film)
1960: Please Turn Over
1960: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (television series, five episodes)
1962: Mutiny on the Bounty
1979: Agatha
1979"1981: Play for Today (television series, three episodes)
1985: Laughterhouse
1985: Plenty
1990: Strike It Rich
1991: King Ralph
1993: Lipstick on Your Collar (television series, two episodes)
2004: Vanity Fair
2006: Tess: A Tale of Love and Darkness

Tim Seely

Tim Seely Biography

Early life and education

Career

Filmography and television work

See also