Joss Ackland
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Sidney Edmond Ackland, CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles.
He had been nominated for the Best Actor in a Support Role for his role as Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987).
Early life
Ackland was born in North Kensington, London, on Sunday, as the son of Major Sydney Norman Ackland (died 1981), an Irish journalist who had been sent to England by his parents for seducing their maid, but his aunt's maid, Ruth Izod (died 1957), who later married him. He was educated by Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Ackland and Rosemary Kirkcaldy were married on August 18, 1951, when Ackland was 23 and she 22 years old. When they first appeared on stage together in Pitlochry, Scotland, she was an actress and Ackland wooed her. When Ackland's acting career first began, the pair had a rough start. They migrated to Lilongwe, Malawi, where Ackland ran a tea plantation for six months, but decided it was too risky, they moved to Cape Town, South Africa. Although they both found steady acting work in South Africa after two years since returning to England in 1957.
Personal life
For 51 years, Ackland and his wife Rosemary were married. They had seven children, thirty-two grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Despite his filming taking him to far-flung locations, Rosemary and he "weren't ever apart." Kirsty married Anthony Shawn Baring, a descendant of merchant banker Sir Francis Baring and descendant of Robert Rundell Guinness, the merchant bank founder of Guinness Mahon. Their home in Barnes caught fire in 1963. Rosemary and their five children were fine, but she was pulled back when jumping from the bedroom window. She was told she would miscarry and never walk again, but she gave birth to her first child and walked again after 18 months in Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Paul, their eldest son, died of a heroin overdose in 1982, at the age of 29. Rosemary was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2000 and died on July 25th, 2002.
Ackland participated in the Letters Live project in 2020 and was filmed from his house in Clovelly, Devon, Devon. His letter addressed the COVID-19 crisis and his hopes for a nation's'strength from adversity.'
Career
Ackland joined the Old Vic, appearing alongside other notable actors including Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom Courtenay. Ackland worked steadily in television and film in the 1960s and 70s. He worked opposite Alec Guinness in the 1979 television serial Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, playing sporting journalist and intermittent British espionage operative Jerry Westerby, and his career advanced through the 1980s with important parts in such films as The Sicilian, Lethal Weapon 2, The Hunt for Red October and White Mischief.
On television Ackland appeared as Jephro Rucastle with Jeremy Brett and David Burke in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; the episode entitled "The Copper Beeches". Other appearances included Passion of Mind with Demi Moore and the two-part TV serial Hogfather based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld. He played C. S. Lewis in the television version of Shadowlands before it was adapted into a stage play starring Nigel Hawthorne and then a theatrical film with Anthony Hopkins in the same role.
His stage roles included creating the role of Juan Perón in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita opposite Elaine Paige. He also starred in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, performing on the RCA Victor original London cast album.
Ackland appears in the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 film It Couldn't Happen Here, and in the video for their version of the song Always on My Mind, which was taken from the film. Several years later, he said in an interview with the Radio Times that he appeared with the band purely because his grandchildren liked their music.
He also co-starred as Emilio Estevez's mentor and friend Hans in the 1992 Disney hit The Mighty Ducks. He reprised the role four years later in 1996's D3: The Mighty Ducks.
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, Ackland said that he appeared in some "awful films" due to being a workaholic. He said that he "regretted" appearing in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and the Pet Shop Boys music video. He also criticised former co-star Demi Moore as "not very bright or talented".
Also in 2007, Ackland appeared in the film How About You opposite Vanessa Redgrave, portraying a recovering alcoholic living in a residential home after being forced to retire and losing his wife to cancer.
In 2008, he returned to the small screen as Sir Freddy Butler, a much married baronet, in the ITV1 show Midsomer Murders. The episode, entitled Vixens Run also featured veteran actress Siân Phillips.
In September 2013, Jonathan Miller directed a Gala Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London. Ackland played Lear.