Kevin Colson
| Kevin Colson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 August 1937 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Stage actor, film and television actor |
| Years active | 1960-9, 1985- |
Kevin Colson (born 28 August 1937) is an Australian stage, film and television actor best known for his portrayal of Sir George Dillingham in the musical Aspects of Love, for which he received a Tony nomination, and his early role as Cliff in the original London production of Cabaret opposite Judi Dench. He was a television presenter and stage actor in Sydney before moving to London. He left acting for 16 years from 1969, but returned to the stage in 1985.
Colson began his career as a television announcer on a religious programme on Sundays, and then became the Seven Network station compère and hosted Room for Two in 1959. His first theatre role was as a rancher in The Pleasure of His Company at the Theatre Royal in 1960, and he had a part in the Glass Menagerie for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust in Sydney in 1961. He starred in French musical Irma La Douce with Judy Bruce from May 1961 as her young boyfriend. It was his first professional musical role, having previously played straight theatre roles. In October 1962, he starred as the hero in Carnival at Her Majesty's Theatre, and in 1963 he played the juvenile lead in Noël Coward's Sail Away at Her Majesty's Theatre; Coward oversaw the rehearsals. In 1964, appearances with the Union Theatre Repertory Company – later the Melbourne Theatre Company – were his Hamlet, Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in the Australian premiere of the Arthur Miller play After the Fall and a role in And The Big Men Fly as the hero's neighbour.
In 1965, Colson moved to London to train, but was immediately offered the part of Robert Browning (replacing Keith Michell) in Robert and Elizabeth, which he performed for a year and a half at the Lyric Theatre. He then played Cliff Bradshaw to Judi Dench's Sally Bowles in the original London production of Cabaret at the Palace Theatre . He retired from acting in 1969.
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