John Hart Dyke

Reginald Paget

John is delighted to be returning to Vienna’s English Theatre for the sixth time. His first appearance here was in Murder at the Vicarage in 1981 followed by The Deep Blue Sea, Dear Liar, Absurd Person Singular and Rebecca.

Born in London, John started his theatrical life with Perth Rep and has since played with most other leading reps and appeared in nearly 300 plays, including 20 in the West End; the first was Duel of Angels (with Vivien Leigh), others include A Man for All Seasons (Paul Schofield), The Cocktail Party (Alec Guinness), The Constant Wife (Ingrid Bergman), Blithe Spirit (Beryl Reid) and a year in The Mousetrap where he met Ray Cooney (playing the villain), and has subsequently worked constantly for him in many of his farces, most recently in Run for Your Wife and Funny Money on a Cruise Ship and in Israel and also Michael Cooney’s farce Cash on Delivery at the Whitehall Theatre. Other work includes seasons at Chichester, Regent’s Park Open Air, Frankfurt, Toronto, Athens, Spain and Far/Middle East tours for Derek Nimmo playing Shakespeare, comedy, pantomime and opera.

Numerous TV credits go back to the days of live Z Cars; other include Dad’s Army, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook, Troubleshooters, Bergerac, All Creatures Great and Small, Resnick, Boon, Eastenders, Kavanagh QC, Poirot, Chucklevision and recently Byron – yet to be shown. Last Film appearance was in Bridget Jones’ Diary.

John has been married to ex-actress Catriona Gardiner for 46 years and has four sons and three grandchildren.