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Tom Radcliffe

Actor, Head Tutor

Tom Radcliffe trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. Before graduation, Tom was co-starring in the BBC film The Most Dangerous Man In The World, where acclaimed British director Gavin Millar delighted in testing Tom’s directorial abilities on the set; the seeds of Tom’s future life as a British film director were firmly planted. Over the next ten years, Tom worked steadily: title role in Come Home Charlie and Face Them, and Piece of Cake (both LWT mini-series), Morse, Frost, The Bill, Hidden In Silence, To Kill A Priest, King Lear, Of Mice and Men. While maintaining a busy television and film career in Europe, Tom honed his skills in Los Angeles working closely Sanford Meisner.  In conjunction with his colleagues at The Actors Temple, Tom has incorporated the work of Sanford Meisner with the writing principles of David Mamet (Red Belt, Wag The Dog, Glengarry GlenRoss, The Verdict) to create a unique method of acting, writing, rehearsing, and directing. In 2007, Tom put The Actors Temple’s ensemble-based approach to the test in a well-received, on-location production of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece, Three Sisters. Tom is now set to direct the Independent Feature Film, To Die For Your Country, shooting summer 2009, at Chesters www.chestersestate.com in Scotland. As with Triptych, another feature film written by Tom, Gabriella Santinelli and Ellie (planned for September 2010), Tom created and wrote To Die For Your Country alongside his Actors Temple colleagues, Mark and Ellie.