Biografia
English character actor Jonathan Newth trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, alongside peers Julie Christie and James Bolam. Beginning his stage career in 1957, he initially performed in repertory theatre and London's West End before making his Broadway debut in The School for Scandal in 1963. Newth spent multiple seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, playing roles such as the Player King in Hamlet, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, and Duke Frederick in As You Like It. More recently, from 2008 to 2009, he portrayed Don Alejandro de la Vega, the father of the hero, in Zorro at the Garrick Theatre in London.
On screen since 1964, Newth has taken on a wide variety of characters, including clerics (Coronation Street (1960), Emmerdale Farm (1972)) and military figures (Wings (1977), Tenko (1981), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)), as well as magistrates such as Sir Edward Coke, a Jacobean barrister and judge, in The Gunpowder Plot (1968). He has also played noblemen in period dramas and literary adaptations, including the Vicomte de Bragelonne in The Man in the Iron Mask (1968); Lord Hastings in The Elusive Pimpernel (1969); Viscount Rochford, Anne Boleyn's brother, in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970); and Tsar Alexander I in Napoleon and Love (1974). Beyond numerous guest roles, he has had recurring parts in the medical soap Emergency-Ward 10 (1957), the family drama The Brothers (1972) as art tutor Nicholas Fox, the sitcom After Henry (1988) as the friendly bookshop owner Russell Bryant, and the original Poldark series (1975) as Verity's husband, Captain Andrew Blamey.
Since 1979, Newth has been married to actress Gay Wilde.
