David Henry
David Henry's recent West End theatre credits include playing Lord Scrumptious in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at The London Palladium.
David made his professional debut, aged 12, as the Boy Prince in Kings Rhapsody at the Alhambra Theatre, Durban, South Africa, starring Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Vanessa Lee. He completed his education in Australia with further training for the stage at the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney under the late Hayes Gordon.
After arriving in the UK in 1969 David spent a number of years working in rep at Leicester, Coventry, Farnham and Watford. He then hosted the BBC TV comedy series Don't Ask Us with Richard Stilgoe and Maureen Lipman.
David was then invited to join the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic under the late Laurence Olivier appearing in Long Day's Journey into Night, Coriolanus, Captain of Kopenik, Richard II, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Front Page.
Films he has appeared in include Evita, The Killing Fields, Cry Freedom, The Noble House, Russia House, Still Crazy, Talos the Mummy, 2000 Weeks, The Grotesque, Charlie, Rollerball and Ali G Indahouse as the Mayor of Staines.
Recent television appearances include Night and Day, Waking the Dead, Bad Girls, Kavanagh QC, The Unknown Soldier, Moseley, Touching Evil, Have your Cake, The Final Cut, Chandler and Company, Poirot, Absolutely Fabulous, Chalk, The Bill, EastEnders, Casualty and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Recent stage work includes The Madness of King George III, as Charles Fox, and Carousel, as Mr Bascombe, for the Royal National Theatre; The Tempest (directed by Adrian Noble) as Antonio and Bartholomew Fair as Zeal of the Land Busy for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Stephen Berkoff's Coriolanus, as Menenius, at the Mermaid and True West, as Saul Kimmer, at the Donmar with Mark Rylance.
Other musicals David has appeared in include: Tyger, as Chaucer and Lord Nobodaddy, for the RNT; Lock Up Your Daughters, as Mr Politic, at Chichester; My Fair Lady, as both Henry Higgins and Doolittle, for a major European tour; The Swaggerer, as Periplectomenus, for Regent's Park and The Owl and the Pussycat, as the Dong with a Luminous Nose, for the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester.