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William Russell goes from St John Rivers to Mr Rochester.

He seems to be enthusiastic about, and I quote "lunatics being shut up in attics".

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 18 June 1966

Transcription:

William realises an ambition at Belgrade

Ever since he appeared in the television adaptation of "Jane Eyre", William Russell has wanted to play the part of Rochester, the forbidding, solitary figure with whom the heroine falls in love.

In the B.B.C. series it was a part which eluded him, for he was cast as St. John Rivers.

But at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, next week, Mr. Russell, an Oxford graduate, who has played in the West End, will be able to realise his ambition.

TV series

"Ever since I played St. John Rivers I have wanted to play Rochester," he said. "This is a great juicy melodrama, and it is a part which does not come the way of actors these days. We do not have people writing this sort of play with characters going blind and lunatics being shut up in attics."

Mr. Russell, who is 41, joined the "Dr. Who" television series when it started, and spent the next 18 months as a "traveller in time".

He was born in Sunderland, but spent most of his early life in Wolverhampton. During the last war he served in the R.A.F. as a navigator/bomb aimer with the rank of flight-lieutenant.

Afterwardd, he read English at Trinity Vollege, Oxford, and from there went into the theatre. His interest in the stage had been kindled at an early age. "I started acting when I was eight, at Wolverhampton," he said.

Far East tour

Mr. Russell has played at the Bristol Old Viv, and toured Russia and Eastern Europe with the Old Vic company from London. He has also been in West End plays, and in one was an understudy for Richard Burton.

Recently he has been with the Nottingham Playhouse company which toured the Far East.

His Jane in the Belgrade production—using an adaptation by Helen Jerome—will be Marion Forster, who has appeared there in several recent productions.

As this year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte, it is appropriate that the most famous novel should be performed in a dramatised version.

The producer is William Bryden, and the settings will be designed by Lawrence Collett. The play opens on Tuesday for three weeks.

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Jane Eyre 1963 Lost Episodes

Episodes 2 and 3 (considered lost, wiped) of "Jane Eyre" 1963 with Ann Bell and Richard Leech were found, dubbed. They will be returned to the BBC.

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Some still photos of Sorcha Cusack as Jane and Michael Jayston as Mr. Rochester doing the reunion scene at Ferndean in "Jane Eyre" 1973 version.

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Michael Jayston had the Voice of All Time and I accept no criticism ever. Best voice. I hear his voice and go !!!!!!! He!!!!! The voice!!!! I love him.

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Michael Jayston had the Voice of All Time and I accept no criticism ever. Best voice. I hear his voice and go !!!!!!! He!!!!! The voice!!!! I love him.

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New behind the scenes, on the set, 11 photos - Jane Eyre (1973) with Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston. :) Michael Jayston's smile awwwwwwww

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I put him back in the TV

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"Aftermath" by Siegfried Sassoon, read by Michael Jayston ("Mad Jack", 1970)

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Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester - Blue Moon

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I wish Episodes 2 and 3 of "Jane Eyre" 1963 version (Ann Bell / Richard Leech) will be found someday because that version is amazing.

Here's a photo op of a scene in the second episode where Mr. Rochester interrogates Jane at Thornfield Hall, probably the part where both of them have an in-depth conversation.

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Sorcha Cusack as Jane from "Jane Eyre" 1973 version.

According to the latest interview regarding "Jane Eyre", Sorcha was suppose to change her English name "Sarah" at the start of her acting career but Michael Jayston the actor of Mr. Rochester in that same version was the one who encouraged her to keep her Irish name and she used it ever since.

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Just after I watched the "Jane Eyre" 1956 version which is available on the Internet last week, I managed to find this full promo photo of Daphne Slater (Jane) and Stanley Baker (Mr. Rochester). This is the only promo photo of 1956 version on the Internet so far (The rest are either destroyed or sold given it was produced around 50's).

Try watching "Jane Eyre" 1956 version. It's a pretty good adaptation of said title.

P.S: I admit Mr. Rochester's trousers in the show is sometimes distracting. It looked tight and somewhat appealing for some reasom.

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Some newly discovered still photos of "Jane Eyre" 1973 version starring Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston from BBC Photo Archive website. Few of them were featured on the DVD version.

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Hoping that the rest of missing episodes of "Jane Eyre" 1963 version will be found. This version is surprisingly great. Ann Bell and Richard Leech were both fantastic as Jane and Mr. Rochester.