Richard Hope (actor)

Richard Hope is a British actor.

Born 1953 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Richard Hope attended Oakham School 1967–71. He went to Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham (now known as Nottingham Trent University), graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Law in 1976.

He trained at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain from 1972-76 appearing in several new plays by established writers: The Children’s Crusade and By Common Consent by Paul Thompson, both directed by Ron Daniels and Sight of Glory and Here Comes The Sun by Barrie Keeffe, directed by Michael Croft. By Common Consent was the first commissioned NYT show adapted for tv, BBC One Play for Today (1975). In 1976 he joined the NYT’s professional Dolphin Theatre Company.

In 1978 Laurence Olivier gave him his first main professional TV part in Laurence Olivier Presents Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo de Filippo. In 1981 he worked with Laurence Olivier again in Brideshead Revisited in which he played Lieutenant Hooper.

He played Ford Prefect in the first stage production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Ken Campbell’s The Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool. He also appeared in their 22-hour epic The Warp and The Third Policeman. Campbell introduced him to Jérôme Savary and so Hope made his first West End appearance with Le Grand Magic Circus in 1001 Nights at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1980.

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