Russell Boulter
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7 April 1963 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Occupation | actor |
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Russell Boulter (born 7 April 1963 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English actor and documentary narrator. He is a communications coach.[1]
As a teenager he was one of the original members of the "Concrete Theatre Company" which toured several theatre productions across the North West of England in pubs, schools and theatres. He played the Kid in Gimme Shelter/Mark in Kennedy's Childen and starred in Sam o Shanker/The Puny Little Life Show/Steve Vortex and the Land Beyond Time/So You Think You're Supposed to Win?/The 1984 Minus 2 Show and the Fosdyke Saga. With Happenstance Theatre Company he played the Doc in "Doc Hickory's Spell Binding Adventures".
Boutler trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Graduating in 1984 playing the title role Richard the Third. Later that year he was offered an equity card by John Dexter for a part in his production of "The Devil and the Good Lord" at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. John Dexter sacked him before the production opened because he objected to his Christian faith, "A totally outmoded concept in the 20th century" and "not compatible with the ethos of the production". During his time at LAMDA Boulter had become a Christian. He refused to spit on a crucifix and so Dexter gave him 24 hours to consider his position and asked him to renounce his faith or lose his equity card. He refused so Dexter sacked him and promised he would do everything in his power to end his acting career. After six months working in the Toy Department in Selfridges he managed to ge an audition for the RSC and the directors Howard Davis and Bill Alexander offered him a play as cast job with an equity card. He began his professional career at the RSC in January 1985. He stayed with the company for two years starring in six productions in Stratford and the Barbican in London. He played small roles and understudied 40 characters as well as mounting several fringe shows at the Other Place and Almedia Theatre. His first lead role was as Angel Clare in Tess at Farnham and he played at the Edinburgh Festival several times, eventually producing the ACG venue at St Paul's and St George's which included the UK premier of Gorky's play "Vasa Zheleznova."
He worked in the West End playing Mickey in "Blood Brothers" at the Phoenix and Albery theatres. The male lead in Noel Coward's "Star Quality" at the Apollo Theatre and "The Madness of George Dubba" at the Players' Theatre. He played the titles roles in "Hamlet" at the Birmingham Stage Company, "Pal Joey" at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre and "Macbeth" at the Stafford Festival Theatre. As well as a lead role in "Air Guitar" at Bristol Old Vic Studio, Boulter played Michael Brennan in BBC Radio 4's drama series Citizens from October 1987 to July 1989. He has appeared in numerous Radio 4 drama productions. He played Chris,[2] Malcolm's assistant in series four of the Granada Television sitcom Watching from December 1989 to January 1990. He also appeared in three episodes of "The Darling Buds of May " as the character Roger McGarry, and in five episodes of Heartbeat as Inspector Crossley during 1993 and 1994.[3]
He played DS John Boulton in ITV's The Bill for five years. During which time he set up the production company "The 4 Amigos." His production of "Lone Star" opened at the Old Red Lion in Islington and went on to tour Australia and played Sydney Opera House. He also produced and starred in a short film called "Crush".
Boulter has appeared in Casualty,[4] Judge John Deed,[5] Eastenders, Waking the Dead, Mobile and Doctors. He also starred in "Murder in Suburbia", "Where the Heart Is" and was a regular character in "Casualty" for a year.
He played Mark in the West End touring production of "Art" and "General Kipper" in "The Madness of George Dubba" at the Players' Theatre, London. He directed the play "They Came to a City" at the Hen and Chickens there in London's fringe.
He has worked extensively as a documentary narrator for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and National Geographic and Discovery Channels. Boulter has narrated episodes of Deep Wreck Mysteries on the History Channel, A Short History of Fatherhood on Channel 4 and the "Revealed" series on Channel 5 amongst others. He currently narrates for the BBC Natural History Unit. He has recorded over 30 titles for BBC Audio Books including "The Lives of John Lennon" and Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
Russell is a Christian. He presented the documentaries "Who is this Jesus?"[6] and Discovering the Bible.[7] He also coaches ordinands during preaching workshops.[8]
Since 2008, Boutler has worked as a communications coach with business people.[1][9] He designs and runs training courses for corporate level executives which focus on pitching, leadership and personal impact.
He also taught improvisation and acting and audition technique at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School between 2008 and 2010. He qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist in 2009 and is an NLP practitioner.
References
- 1 2 "Introducing Russell Boulter: Host For The Great NLP Extravaganza - by Matthew Wingett". NLP Life Training. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "Citizens". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "Heartbeat". RadioTimes. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "BBC - Press Office - Casualty A-Z – Guest artists". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "Judge John Deed". RadioTimes. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "Search results - Vision Video - Christian Videos, Movies and DVDs". visionvideo.com. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ https://www.visionvideo.com/files/DTB_Guide.pdf
- ↑ "Russell Boulter". Twitter. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ "Garnett & Simpson - Who We Are". garnettandsimpson.co.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2016.