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Richard Armitage

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Also known as Richard Crispin Armitage, Richard C. Armitage

British actor

OverviewAI-generated

Richard Armitage is a male actor from the United Kingdom. Born on August 22, 1971, he began his professional work period in 1988. His career is associated with English and British productions, including soundtracks and audiobooks.

Open Library lists fourteen works under his name, including *Particulars of the trial, execution, &c., of Richard Armitage, and Charles Thomas*, *Cut, Police Suicide*, *The trial of Richard Armitage for forgery on the Bank of England*, and *Getting Going in Europe*. Crossref records five works attributed to him. His musical activity has been tagged with terms such as "lord of the rings," "english," and "british."

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
14

Top works

  • Particulars of the trial, execution, &c., of Richard Armitage, and Charles Thomas
  • Cut
  • Police Suicide
  • The trial of Richard Armitage for forgery on the Bank of England
  • Getting Going in Europe

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1971-08-22

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
206,117
Total plays
1,642,854

Tags

SoundtrackAudiobooklord of the ringsenglishbritish

Richard Armitage (born 22 August 1971, Leicester) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the film adaptations of "The Hobbit", the BBCs Robin Hood and Spooks, as well as his guest appearance in the finale of The Vicar of Dibley. He started his career in theatre, appearing in various musicals including Cats and after studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as a supporting player. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

via Last.fm · Richard Armitage

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,369x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,247x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,657x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,271x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,600x

via Crossref · CC0

Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
b. 1971
Nationality
GB
Role / Field
Actors, Herci, Aktorzy, Actores, Acteurs, Acting
Language
eng
Gender
Male

Recorded by 18 libraries

via VIAF · OCLC

Key facts

Born
Richard Crispin Armitage , ( 1971-08-22 ) 22 August 1971 (age 54) , Huncote , Leicestershire , England
Education
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupations
Actor author
Years active
1988–present

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Crispin Armitage (/ˈɑːmətɪdʒ/; born 22 August 1971) is an English actor and author. He received recognition in the UK with his first leading role as John Thornton in the British television programme North & South (2004). His role as dwarf king and leader Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit brought him international recognition.

Other notable roles include John Proctor in Yaël Farber's stage production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Francis Dolarhyde in the American television series Hannibal, Lucas North in the British television drama Spooks, John Porter in the British television drama Strike Back, Daniel Miller in the EPIX spy series Berlin Station and Guy of Gisborne in the British television drama Robin Hood. He voiced Trevor Belmont in the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania. In 2020, he played the lead role in the Netflix miniseries The Stranger.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Armitage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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