Ian Brooker

Ian Brooker is a character actor, with experience of theatre, television and film. However, it is in the medium of radio and audio drama that he is best known.Ian Anthony Brooker is the ninth generation of a theatrical family that first went on stage in the mid eighteenth century. Relatives have included leading theatrical and literary figures such as Dame Madge Kendal (Mrs Kendal in The Elephant Man) (1848–1935), dramatists such as Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871) – author of the play Caste, the screenwriter Philip MacDonald (1900–80) – author of the Boris Karloff film The Body Snatcher, and several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films; Harry Duff (1895–1984) – the boy actor who played both Michael and John Darling in the original production and revival of the play Peter Pan; the French actress, Rachel Berendt who studied with Sarah Bernhardt and who married the film, stage and television actor Pierre Fresnay; and Carol Robertson – producer of the BBCs Tales of Beatrix Potter and Oscar (starring Michael Gambon as Oscar Wilde).

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