Actor John Neville dies at 86

By VARIETY STAFF John Neville, an british-born Canadian actor and stage director who starred in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and came out in TV series "The X Files," died Saturday in Toronto. He was 86 and was battling with Alzheimer's disease. Neville came out in a lot of movies, television shows and theater productions throughout work that spanned six decades. He was artistic director in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival inside the eighties, too as with 1988 he carried out the title character in Terry Gilliam's fantastical film comedy "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." Inside the 1990's he carried out the recurring role in the Well-Well-stored Guy on TV's "The X-Files" too as with the initial "X-Files" film. Just before then, however, he will be a stage favorite in London's West Finish through the 19 fifties. Just like a key person for the reason that old Vic Company, he carried out leading roles in several classical works of theater, including Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" (they repeated around the 1957 episode of NBC's "Producer's Showcase"as well as the title character in "Richard II." In the output of "Othello," he and Richard Burton alternated the various of Othello and Iago. He shown another side in "Lolita, My Love," a musical adaptation of Nabokov's novel, and needed inside the lead role inside the original West Finish output of musical "Irma La Douce." Neville was produced in Willesden, London. After serving inside the Royal Navy throughout World war ii, he trained becoming an actor within the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and started his career included in the Trent Players. Through the 19 fifties Neville also labored frequently on British and American television, starring in Shakespeare's "Henry V" on "BBC Sunday Evening Theatre" in 1951, in "Hedda Gabler" on "ITV Play each weekInch in 1957 too as with "Hamlet" in "The DuPont Show in the Month" in 1959. He gained his film debut in 1960's "Oscar Wilde," starring Robert Morley and Take advantage of Richardson, playing Master Alfred Douglas. On Tv through the sixties he will be a regular on ITV's anthology series "The Business of 5Inch and starred inside the BBC's 1969 miniseries "The Initial Churchills," which increased being the initial series broadcast incorporated in "Masterpiece Theatre" when that relate launched in 1971. Neville increased being artistic director in the new Nottingham Playhouse in 1963, and after he emigrated to Canada in 1972, he needed up a.d. positions at numerous theater companies. In 1993 the actor came out inside an episode of "Star Trek: Generation XInch as Isaac Newton. He ongoing to use continuously to the 2000s, turning up in James Toback's "Harvard Guy" in 2001, a 2002 adaptation of "Crime and Punishment," David Cronenberg's "Spider" to ensure that as recently as a year ago in the short referred to as "Bradfordian Rain." Neville is managed to get by wife, Caroline Hopper, and six children. (Connected Press brought with this report.) Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com