David Firth (born 15 March 1945) is an English actor, writer and singer for stage, film, radio and television.
His first West End role was The Courier in 1776 (Albery Theatre, 1970), for which he was nominated as Most Promising Actor in the Plays and Players Awards.
In the original London production of Assassins (Donmar Warehouse, 1992), he played John Wilkes Booth "with mesmerising power".
[7] He followed this with roles in Knickerbocker Holiday (Barbican, 1993), Follies (Brighton, 1993) and Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1994),[8] and sang in Manfred at the Royal Festival Hall in 1994.
[18] Alongside his stage career, Firth has performed in a number of television series and on film,[19] and is credited as a writer on The Return of Shelley, Home James!