John Atterbury

Morrie

John started as a Disc Jockey on the RAF Gibraltar Network, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and secured his first job in repertory theatre in his native Swansea.

Since then he has enjoyed a jobbing actor’s life of repertory, panto and stints in the West End including No Sex Please, We’re British; Rolls Hyphen Royce, Licence to Murder; Mr Cinders; Our Town; Bent; The Wild Duck and Ivanov at the Donmar. John played the lead in Studies for a Portrait at The King’s Head, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, & and the lead in Buried Child (OFFIE nomination) directed by Tim Trimingham-Lee at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. He worked again for Tim in Dead Funny and James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night. He then appeared in The Woman in Black in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Clarion at The Arcola, Heartbreak House, and Fanny’s First Play at Shaw’s Corner.

Television appearances include Dr Who, Blind Justice, The Jump, Scarlett Midsomer Murders and Apple Tree House.

Films include Sir Anthony Eden in Nasser, The Parent Trap, Gosford Park, Nigellus in Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, Robin Hood, Love’s Kitchen, and The Darkest Hour.