David Parfitt

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David Parfitt is a film producer and actor, born 7 July 1958, Sunderland. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.

He was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999, and retains strong links with his home city and is a supporter of Sunderland AFC. He vociferously endorses the city of Sunderland wherever he goes. He played Peter Harrison in the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequel ...And Mother Makes Five.

He played the original Tim Beecham, an old friend of Nigel Pargetter in the BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers. Tim was a 'Hooray Henry' and was known for persistently failing his law exams.

Parfitt began his stage career with Sunderland Empire Theatre Society in 1969 but he gave up acting in the late-1980's to concentrate on production, and has been working as an independent film producer for the past 20 years and is, at present, living in Brixton with his wife Liz Parfitt and his three children Bill, Thomas and Max Parfitt. He is Deputy Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and has produced many British films including Henry V, Peter's Friends, Swan Song, Much Ado About Nothing, The Madness of King George, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Twelfth Night, The Wings of the Dove, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York (Production Consultant) I Capture the Castle and Chasing Liberty.

[edit] External links

• David Parfitt at the Internet Movie Database
• Filmography and award nominations