Steven Berkoff (born 3 August 1937) is an English actor, writer and director. He is patron of the Nightingale Theatre, in Brighton, England, a fringe theatre venue, which is (as are most fringe venues in England), a small room over a pub. He is best known for playing General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy,
Berkoff was born as Leslie Steven Berks, in Stepney, in the East End of London, on 3 August 1937, the son of Pauline (Hyman) and Alfre...
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Steven Berkoff (born 3 August 1937) is an English actor, writer and director. He is patron of the Nightingale Theatre, in Brighton, England, a fringe theatre venue, which is (as are most fringe venues in England), a small room over a pub. He is best known for playing General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy,
Berkoff was born as Leslie Steven Berks, in Stepney, in the East End of London, on 3 August 1937, the son of Pauline (Hyman) and Alfred Berks (Berkovitch), who was a tailor. He attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School from 1948 to 1950, Hackney Downs School and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, in London, in 1958 and at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, in Paris, in 1965. He lives with his companion Clara Fisher in East London.
As well as being an actor, Berkoff is a playwright and director.
He joined the Repertory Company at Her Majesty's Theatre in Barrow-in-Furness for approx 2 months in 1962 .
His earliest plays are adaptations of works by Franz Kafka: The...
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