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.

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 ...

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… ...

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.

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, 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.

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 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.