David March (actor)

David March (18 February 1925, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire – 25 August 1999, London) was an English actor who had a prominent career on British radio from 1953 until his death 45 years later.

[2] In 1946 and 1947, he was committed to the theatrical seasons at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre where he portrayed Patroclus in Troilus and Cressida and the roles of Philostrate and Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[3] Directed by Oliver Marlow Wilkinson, that lauded production also starred Susan Dowdall as Consuelo, John McKelvey as Briquet, Hugh Manning as Count Mancini, Mary Savidge as Zinida, and Ronnie Barker as Polly.

[3][4][5] Other roles he excelled in at the Oxford Playhouse included Friar Laurence inRomeo and Juliet, Rupert Cadell in Rope, and Roland Maule in Present Laughter among others.

[6] The same year, he starred in James Roose-Evans's Stories and Designs at the Hampstead Theatre; a one-man show written for March based on the writings of Virginia Woolf.