English actor, director and writer
Simon Treves
Treves in 2010
Born Frederick Simon Treves
(1957-06-19 ) 19 June 1957 (age 66) Spouse
Mirela Kalicanin
(
m. 2001)
Children 2 Parent Frederick Treves (father)
Frederick Simon Treves (born 19 June 1957) is an English actor , director and writer , best known for playing Harold 'Stinker' Pinker in three series of ITV 's Jeeves and Wooster Aleister Crowley in the short film Boca do Inferno , directed by Luis Porto and shot in Porto and Cascais , Portugal .
Biography
Born 19 June 1957 in Watford , Hertfordshire , England, Treves is the eldest son of actor Frederick Treves and the great-great nephew of Sir Frederick Treves , the surgeon who treated Joseph Merrick , the Elephant Man .
Educated first at Rokeby School , then King's College School in Wimbledon and finally Birkbeck, University of London , he trained as an actor at the National Youth Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School .[1]
Theatre
As an actor, he has played at many of the leading regional British theatres. He made his debut with the RSC at Stratford in 1983,[1] Misalliance Barbican .[1]
Anthony Hopkins cast him as Willy Nilly in his production of Under Milk Wood AIR Studios at Lyndhurst Hall, Hampstead in 1992, in aid of The Prince's Trust . Hopkins then asked Simon to personally assist him on his film and theatre productions of August Anton Chekhov 's Uncle Vanya North Wales . At the Orange Tree, Richmond , he starred as schizophrenic Victorian artist Louis Wain in Jane Coles' Cat with Green Violin . He played De Brie in the original 1992 UK production of David Hirson 's multi award-winning La Bête John Ford 's The Broken Heart Lyric Hammersmith .
In 1999, Treves led the Singapore Repertory Theatre company production of M. Butterfly [2]
In 2008, he played Richard Greatham in Hay Fever [3]
Television
On TV, Treves played Harold 'Stinker' Pinker in three series of Jeeves and Wooster Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry .[4] [5] The Reckoning Unforgotten This England The Girl Before Life Black Earth Rising Next of Kin , Stan Lee's Lucky Man The Interceptor EastEnders Doctors Red Dwarf X The Beginning Lynda La Plante 's Above Suspicion: Silent Scream Bodily Harm and Charles II: The Power and The Passion Soldier Soldier Boon By the Sword Divided Charles II ). As a child he appeared with his younger brother Patrick on the Christmas 1967 edition of Crackerjack
Radio
Treves has acted in over one hundred radio productions for the BBC since his debut as Joseph Conrad 's Lord Jim [6] Dirk Maggs , including Independence Day UK The Amazing Spider-Man The Adventures of Superman The Gemini Apes and The Adventures of Sexton Blake
In the early 1980s, he regularly voiced trails for one of the first UK breakfast TV channels, TV-am . Other voice-over work was for Channel 4 's Right to Reply BBC One and numerous radio, film and commercial companies. He also voices a character on the computer game, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
Writing
His play Bitter with a Twist was produced by the Bristol Old Vic in 1999, and is published by Faber & Faber .[7] Amsterdam in May 2011. Other commissions include two linked internet audio dramas – Ash and Gold , for totallyword.com; and an original short screenplay, Tweeny , commissioned by Brian Cox and Skreba Films. He recently adapted Jim Broadbent 's A Sense of History for the stage; wrote and directed Smile for Miniaturists 24 at the Arcola ; and devised and scripted Neither Here nor There (a celebration of cult Scottish comic Chic Murray ), broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 2007.[1]
Directing
Treves was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London in 2005,[1] Terry Johnson & Kate Lock's Tuesday's Child at Hampstead Theatre in 2005.
Personal life
A 1991 cartoon by Simon Treves Treves married Mirela (née Kalicanin) in 2001 and lives in Buckinghamshire . They have two sons.
