Brian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80.

“Brian Bedford was the prime reason I went into the theatre,” said Stratford artistic director Antoni Cimolino. “Here was an actor who knew who he was and we loved him for it.

The voice of Robin Hood in the Disney animated classic has passed away. Brian Bedford died at 80 in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a two-year battle with cancer. The British theatre actor died Wednes… ...

Tony Award-winning classical actor Brian Bedford, whose career included roles by Shakespeare and Chekhov, voicing Robin Hood in Disney's 1973 animated film and a memorable cross-dressing turn as a ...

NEW YORK — Tony Award-winning classical actor Brian Bedford, whose stage work included roles by Shakespeare and Chekhov, a long relationship with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and a ...

Brian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80.

Brian Bedford originally thought that playing Lady Bracknell in the 2011 Broadway presentation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST was a rotten idea. Luckily, for us, he changed his mind.

Brian Bedford: As long as I can remember. Even before I knew the theatre existed I was an actor. It wasn't that I wanted to become an actor, I was one. When I was a tiny child, the radio was ...

Brian Bedford, 80; brought stage classics to life By Bruce Weber New York Times,January 17, 2016, 9:15 p.m. Mr. Bedford performed in a production of Molière’s Tartuffe in New York in 2002.

Bedford’s appeal is broader than one might expect. “There’s the nucleus of a highly trained classical acting company in Chicago,” he says, with clear interest in a possible future.