Barrie Ingham

Barrie Stanton Ingham (10 February 1932 – 23 January 2015) was an English actor. He worked in television, on stage and in several films.

Ingham was born in 1932 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, to Irene (née Bolton) and Harold Ellis Stead Ingham. He was educated at Heath Grammar School and became a Royal Artillery officer.

Ingham made his debut in Manchester with the Library Theatre Company, and then he moved to London's Old Vic. He also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mermaid Theatre Company and Royal National Theatre.

Ingham featured in over 200 British and American films and TV productions. He played the lead role of Robin Hood in A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967). After playing Sejanus in Granada TV's The Caesars (1968), he had a short spell as an ambitious government minister in The Power Game in 1969. In 1971, Ingham took the leading role in the series Hine, as an unscrupulous arms dealer. Sir John Gielgud gave him his Broadway debut and he subsequently played in many Broadway musicals, including Copperfield on Broadway, and opposite Angela Lansbury in the London production of Gypsy: A Musical Fable in 1973. When the production transferred to Broadway, Ingham did not remain with the show. He was acclaimed for his performance as King Pellinore in the 1981-82 revival of Camelot starring Richard Harris. In 1986, he voiced Basil of Baker Street, the lead character of Disney's The Great Mouse Detective.

In 1991–92, Bingham was in the final cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, opposite Sarah Brightman on Broadway. His last Broadway outing was in the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde as Sir Danvers Carew. Ingham opened the show in 1997 and remained with it for four years until closing in January 2001. He also appeared in the 2001 film version of the musical.

Ingham appeared onstage in Australia, appearing in Noël Coward's Private Lives, in Sydney in 1976.

Ingham married Tarne Phillips Ingham in 1957; together they had four children.

Ingham died at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida aged 82. He was survived by his wife, Tarne Phillips Ingham, and four children.