Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (1966-1969)
Prospect Theatre Company (1969-1970) Richard II and Edward II starring Ian McKellen and Timothy West, directed by Richard Cottrell and Toby Robertson. Edinburgh Festival, continental and UK tour, West End. Television productions of both.
Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow (1970-72) leading roles included:
Gertrude in an all-male Hamlet
The Player King in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Bishop in The Balcony
Young Marlow in She Stoops To Conquer
Tusenbach in The Three Sisters
Adam in The Four Seasons
Lord Foppington in The Relapse
Len in Saved
The Emperor in The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria
Butler in Tiny Alice …’a lithe, carnivorously affable performance by the most promising new actor I have seen this year.’ The Times
Stage,Radio,TV & Film
Theatre
| Role | Play | Venue |
| Sir Peter Teazle | The School for Scandal | Derby / Northampton |
| Bert Bently | Red Peppers | Jermyn St Theatre |
| Lord Goring | An Ideal Husband | national tour |
| Geoffrey Lymes | Canaries Sometimes Sing‘Jeremy Nicholas invests Geoffrey with a fine, predatory technique which starts off as though acquired from Ian Carmichael and ends up acknowledging the baffled geniality of Derek Nimmo. In between, he is very much his own – and Lonsdale’s – man.’ Financial Times | national tour |
| ‘J’ | Three Men in a Boat Olivier Award ‘Best Newcomer’ nomination Channel 4 BBC Radio 4 Argo spoken word‘Presented with great charm…Mr Nicholas has an immaculate grasp of Jerome’s social type’ The Scotsman‘Jeremy Nicholas beautifully times the infallible jokes and also manages to place and accommodate the passages of fatuous moralising without patronising them.’ The Observer |
Edinburgh Festival, May Fair Theatre, national tour |
| Dudley Moore | Beyond the Fringe | national tour |
| Greg | Relatively Speaking | national tour |
| Narrator | Side by Side by Sondheim | Leicester, Haymarket |
| Compere | The Ripper Show | Sheffield, Crucible |
| Jack Chesney | Charlie’s Aunt | York |
| Richard II | Circle of Glory | national tour |
| Donald | Loud Reports | Bush Theatre |
| Lord Brocklehurst | The Admirable Crichton‘ Only Jeremy Nicholas, among the men, has any sense of Vogue and upper-class vogue.’ The Guardian | Greenwich |
| Alan Howard | French Without Tears | Watford |
| Young Marlow | She Stoops to Conquer | Watford |
| Lenny | The Homecoming | Gardner Centre, Brighton |
| Jimmy | There’s a Girl in My Soup | Watermill, Newbury |
| Hortensio / Young Man | The Shrew | Open Space |
| Harold / Blake | Meat Love | Almost Free Theatre |
Television
Lewis Lake in ‘Wish Me Luck’ (LWT, 1989)
For full listing go to: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629394/
Leading or significant roles:
| Role | Series/Play | For | Director |
| Mr Green Q.C. | Murder in Mind | BBC TV | Gerry Poulson |
| Talbot Booth | Heartbeat | Yorkshire TV | Gerry Poulson |
| Berrington | London’s Burning | LWT | Ken Horne |
| Newspaper editor | Stanley’s Dragon | Central | Gerry Poulson |
| Bob | Outside Edge | Central | Nick Hurran |
| Drunk | The Bill | Thames | Bill Hays |
| Gerald | Birds of a Feather | Alomo/BBC | Nic Philips |
| Simon | The Upper Hand | Central | Martin Dennis |
| Tom | Boon | Central | Chris Baker |
| Lewis Lake | Wish Me Luck (series 3) | LWT | Bill Hays |
| John Maddingham | Crossroads | Central | various |
| Pelham Beecher | Making News | Thames | Geoff Sax |
| Uncle Bob | Uncle Bob | Channel 4 | Sean Barton |
| Rodney Finch-Courtney | King and Castle | Thames | Alan Bell |
| Jocelyn Gummer | Prospects | Thames | John Crome |
| Tom Manners | Mog | Central | Nic Philips |
| Sir Jonathan Sibley | Bright Smiler | Granada | David Carson |
| Nathaniel Winkle | The Pickwick Papers | BBC | Brian Lighthill |
| Harry Vernon | Juliet Bravo | BBC | Paul Ciappessonni |
| Jeremy Jowling | Rumpole | Thames | Bill Hays |
| Geoffrey | Juliet Bravo | BBC | Oliver Horsburgh |
| Happy Endings | Dr MacDonald | BBC | Simon Betts |
| Happy Endings | Badger | BBC | Simon Betts |
| Bertram Potter | The Tale of Beatrix Potter | BBC | Bill Hays |
| Colin Thomas | Juliet Bravo | BBC | Leonard Lewis |
| Frank Truett | When the Boat Comes In | BBC | David Reynolds & Jonathan Alwyn |
| Inigo Jollifant | The Good Companions | Yorkshire | Bill Hays & Leonard Lewis |
| Anthony | Echoes of Louisa | Central | David Dunn |
| Basin | The Snow Queen | BBC | Paul Ciappessonni |
| Nick Somers | Duchess of Duke Street | BBC | Cyril Coke |
| Vincent Boyd-Thomson | The Avenue | LWT | Brian Parker |
| Michael C Regan | Rhinestone Cowboy | ATV | Bill Hays |
| Lionel the Lynx Helicopter (voiceover) | Budgie the Little Helicopter (1993-95, 39/39 episodes) | ITV | Various |
Radio
Dr. Watson – to Peter Egan’s Sherlock Holmes – in Second Holmes (BBC Radio 4 series)
Nikki (the Ivor Novello role) in King’s Rhapsody (BBC Radio 2).
‘J’ in Three Men In A Boat* and Three Men On The Bummel* (BBC Radio 4)
Dramatisation:
The Fast Gentleman* by Keble Howard, starring Michael Maloney and directed by Jane Morgan (August 2000, BBC Radio 4)
See ‘Voice Over & Spoken Word’ section for audio books
TV Commercials
Bailey’s Irish Cream
Ross Frozen Foods
Tennants Lager
British Telecom
Abbey National
Cadbury’s Milk Tray
British Leyland’s Maestro
Tjismenu (in Dutch)
RAC Club of Barcelona (in Catelan)
Lacon Lager and Lime
Twinings Tea (for Japan)
Abbey Life (in Australia)
…and dozens more.
In the world of TV commercials, he appeared in the award-winning ‘Motor-bike and sidecar’ Hamlet Cigar commercial and, for thirteen years, was the face of Ferrero Rocher chocolates in Germany (1982-95)