Brian Bedford - RIP

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I am quite abashed that I didn't see this until today, though in the wake of Bowie and Rickman, pretty much all celebrity deaths took second stage.  Brian Bedford, a mainstay of Stratford, passed away of cancer on Jan 13.  He was 80.  A nice obit here: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/01/13/brian-bedford-a-veteran-of-ontarios-stratford-festival-dead-at-80.html

I believe I saw him 3 times in various Stratford productions, including a powerful Julius Caesar in an otherwise muddled production.  He had slowed down and more or less stopped performing since 2013, and I've only been able to start going to Stratford on a regular basis since 2014.  But he left a very strong legacy at Stratford -- and very limited work in films or TV, which unfortunately means he will not leave much of a trace in the general culture.  He did have a role in the movie Nixon and was the voice of Robin Hood in the Disney movie, which is probably the height of his fame.

It is likely that Stratford has some DVDs available, though probably not for the roles I'd be most interested in.  But I'll check around this summer when I go down.

RIP