British male Shakespearean actors

Walter Bentley (born William Begg; 7 October 1849 - 19 September 1927), was a Scottish actor who specialized in Shakespearean roles and productions.

Wensley Pithey (21 June 1914 – 10 November 1993) was a South African-born character actor who had a long stage and film career in England.

Adetomiwa Edun is a British, Nigerian and Ghanaian actor best known for his roles as Sir Elyan in the television show Merlin and Alex Hunter in the football videogame FIFA 17.

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009) was an English actor and singer.

Paul Ready is a British character actor.

Christopher Colquhoun (born 10 January 1970 in Carlisle, England) is an English actor who trained at RADA.

Danny Wynter (born 25 May 1982), known professionally as Danny Lee Wynter, is an English actor, writer, and campaigner.

Gareth S. Armstrong (born 25 June 1948) is a British actor, director, teacher and writer.

Gareth Daniel Thomas (12 February 1945 – 13 April 2016) was a Welsh actor.

Harold Kyrle Money Bellew (28 March 1855 – 2 November 1911), more commonly known as Kyrle Bellew, was a British stage and silent film actor in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Sir Godfrey Seymour Tearle (12 October 1884 – 9 June 1953) was a British actor who portrayed the quintessential British gentleman on stage and in both British and US films.

Kulvinder Ghir (born 10 August 1965 in Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya) is a Kenyan-born British actor, comedian and writer.

Sean Kane (born 10 May 1969) is a Scottish actor born in Peebles.

Joseph Marcell (born 18 August 1948) is a British actor, best known for his role as Geoffrey the English butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from its beginning in September 1990, until its final episode in May 1996.

Walter Montgomery (1827–1871) was an American-born British actor, real name Richard Tomlinson.

Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was a British actor, film star and director.

Robert Shaw Cameron (born 26 June 1976) is a British actor and director.

Javone Prince is a British comedian and actor.

Burt Caesar is a British actor, broadcaster and director for stage and television, who was born in St Kitts and migrated to England with his family as a child.

Andrew Havill (born c. 1965) is a British actor.

David Rintoul (born David Wilson; 29 November 1948) is a Scottish stage and television actor.

Daniel Hawksford is a Welsh actor.

Frank Barrie (born 19 September 1936) is a British stage and television actor.

Gerard McCarthy (born 31 March 1981) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Colin Hurley (born 1957) is a British actor and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Shakespeare's Globe company, specialising in performing the works of William Shakespeare.

Frederick Barkham Warde (23 February 1851 – 7 February 1935) was an English Shakesperian actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.

Peter de Jersey is a British television and theatre actor.

Jeremy Sheffield (born 17 March 1966) is a British actor and former professional ballet dancer from Chelmsford, England.

Orlando Wells (born 9 June 1973) is an English writer and actor.

Malcolm Tierney (25 February 1938 – 18 February 2014) was an English actor who appeared in many film and television roles.

Robert Adams (1906–1965) was a British Guyanese actor of stage and screen.

Norman Wooland (16 March 1910 – 3 April 1989) was a British character actor who appeared in many major films, including several Shakespearean adaptations.

Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor.

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor.

Christopher Benjamin (born 27 December 1934) is a British actor.

Paterson Joseph (born 22 June 1964) is a British actor.

Daniel Gwyn Evans (born 31 July 1973) is a Welsh actor and director.

John Colin McCormack (2 December 1941 – 19 June 2004) was a Welsh actor who enjoyed success in classical stage performances and television shows including BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green, a show he returned to twenty years later when he played a police constable.

Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE (20 April 1902 – 17 February 1968) was an English actor-manager, known for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare.

George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor.

Alex "Al" Weaver (born 1981) is an English actor.

Alan David (born 29 December 1941 as Alan Davies) is a Welsh television actor.

Alex Wyndham (born 1981) is an English actor, known for his role as Gaius Maecenas in the HBO television series Rome (2007).

Charles Mayne Young (1777–1856), English actor, was the son of an eminent London surgeon.

David Laurie Lyon (16 May 1941 – 7 June 2013) was a British stage, television, and film actor.

David Neal (13 February 1932 – 27 June 2000) was a popular British television actor, active in the 1960s through the 1990s.

David Weston (born 28 July 1938, London) is an English actor, director and author.

David William (24 June 1926 – 28 July 2010) was a British Canadian actor and director.

John Wood, CBE (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English actor noted for his performances in Shakespeare and for his long association with Tom Stoppard.

Samuel Phelps (born 13 February 1804, Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Plymouth, Devon, died 6 November 1878, Anson’s Farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex) was an English actor and theatre manager.