Benedict Cumberbatch (22 page)

2010

THIRD STAR (Role: James)

92 mins

Directed by: Hattie Dalton

Cast included: Tom Burke (Davy), J.J. Feild (Miles), Adam Robertson (Bill).

2011

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Role: Peter Guillam)

Directed by: Tomas Alfredson

Cast included: Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux), John Hurt (Control), Colin Firth (Bill Haydon), Gary Oldman (George
Smiley), Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux), Tom Hardy (Ricki Tarr), Kathy Burke (Connie Sachs), Toby Jones (Percy Alleline), Ciaran Hinds (Roy Bland), David Dencik (Toby Esterhase), Svetlana Khodchenkova (Irina), Stephen Graham (Jerry Westerby), Simon McBurney (Oliver Lacon).

2011

WAR HORSE (Role: Maj Jamie Stewart)

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Cast included: Jeremy Irvine (Albert Narracott), Emily Watson (Rose Narracott), Peter Mullan (Ted Narracott), David Thewlis (Lyons), Matt Milne (Andrew), Patrick Kennedy (Lt Charlie Waverly), Robert Emms (David Lyons), Tom Hiddleston (Capt Nicholls), David Kross (Gunther), Celine Buckens (Emilie), Eddie Marsan (Sgt Fry).

2011

WRECKERS (Role: David)

Written and Directed by: D.R. Hood

Cast included: Claire Foy (Dawn), Shaun Evans (Nick), Peter McDonald (Gary), Sinead Matthews (Sharon), June Watson (Miss Hedges), Georgie Smith (Gemma).

2012

GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA (documentary) (Role: Voice of Dante)

Produced and Directed by: Annalisa Piras

Featuring: Bill Emmott.

2012

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Role: Necromancer)

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Cast included: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Sylvester McCoy (Radogast the Brown), Stephen Fry (Master of Laketown), Barry Humphries (Great Goblin), Richard Armitage (Thorin), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Ken Stott (Balin).

2012

ELECTRIC CINEMA: HOW TO BEHAVE (SHORT FILM) (Role: Humphrey Bogart)

Directed by: Marcel Grant

Cast included: Alexander Armstrong, Gemma Arterton, James Corden, Natalie Dormer, Harry Enfield, Rebecca Ferdinando, Emilia Fox, Tom Hollander, Toby Longworth, Nigella Lawson, Michael McIntyre, Rafe Spall, Olivia Williams.

2013

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (Role: Khan)

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Cast included: Simon Pegg (Scotty), Zoe Saldana (Lt Uhuru), Chris Pine (Captain Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Alice Eve (Dr Carol Marcus), Noel Clarke (Thomas Harewood), Karl Urban (Dr. ‘Bones’ McCoy), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), John Cho (Sulu), Bruce Greenwood (Pike), Peter Weller (Marcus).

2013

12 YEARS A SLAVE (Role: William Ford)

Directed by: Steve McQueen

Cast included: Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup), Dwight Henry (Uncle Abram), Bryan Batt (Judge Turner), Michael Fassbender (Edwin Epps), Brad Pitt (Bass), Paul Giamatti (Freeman).

2013

THE FIFTH ESTATE (Role: Julian Assange)

Directed by: Bill Condon

Cast included: Daniel Bruhl (Daniel Domscheit-Berg), Peter Capaldi (Alan Rusbridger), Dan Stevens (Ian Katz), David Thewlis (Nick Davies), Alexander Beyer (Marcel Rosenbach), Alicia Vikander (Anke Domscheit).

2013

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Role: ‘Little’ Charles Aiken)

Directed by: John Wells

Cast included: Meryl Streep (Violet Weston), Julia Roberts (Barbara Weston), Ewan McGregor (Bill Fordham), Chris Cooper (Charles Aiken), Abigail Breslin (Jean Fordham), Juliette Lewis (Karen Weston), Margo Martindale (Mattie Fae Aiken), Dermot Mulroney (Steve).

2013

LITTLE FAVOUR (short film) (Role: Wallace)

Written and directed by: Patrick Viktor Monroe
Cast included: Colin Salmon (James), Nick Moran (Logan), Julian Shaw (Jimmy), Robert Shannon (Morgan).

2013

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Roles: Smaug/Necromancer)

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Cast includes: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Luke Evans (Bard the Bowman), Lee Pace (Thrandruil), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Billy Connolly (Dain Ironfoot), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Manu Bennett (Azog), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Stephen Fry (Master of Laketown), James Nesbitt (Bofur), Ian Holm (Old Bilbo).

2014

THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (Role: Necromancer)

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Cast includes: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lilly, Cate Blanchett, Richard Armitage, Billy Connolly, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee.

2014

THE IMITATION GAME (Role: Alan Turing)

Directed by: Morten Tyldum

Cast includes: Keira Knightley, Allen Leech, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear, Tom Goodman-Hill, Matthew Goode, James Northcote.

2014 (tbc)

FLYING HORSE (Role rumoured to be Harry Larkyns, the theatre critic)

Written and directed by: Gary Oldman

Cast scheduled to include: Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman (Film about Eadweard Muybridge, the nineteenth-century photographer and inventor.)

2014 (tbc)

EVEREST (Role rumoured to be George Mallory)

Directed by: Doug Liman

Based on the book by Jeffrey Archer.

2015 (tbc)

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR (Voice)

Directed by: Simon J. Smith

Written by: John Aboud, Michael Colton, based on characters by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Voice cast includes: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, Andy Richter, John Malkovich, Tom McGrath, Nicole Sullivan, John DiMaggio, Chris Miller.

2015 (tbc)

MAGIK (Role: Lewis Clark (voice))

Directed by: Stephen Wallis

Voice cast includes: Dominique Swain, Samantha Morton, Jim Broadbent, Jimmy Carr, Tom Riley, Matthew Goode, Jake Raymond.

2015 (tbc)

THE LOST CITY OF Z (pre-production) (Role: Lt. Col. Percival Fawcett)

Written and directed by: James Gray

Based on the book by David Grann.

2003:
15–19, 22–26 September

WOMAN’S HOUR DRAMA: MANSFIELD PARK (Role: Edmund (all episodes))

BBC Radio 4 (Mondays–Fridays, 1045–1100, repeated 1945–2000)

Directed by: Sally Avens

Cast included: Amanda Root (Jane Austen), Felicity Jones (Fanny), Tim Pigott-Smith (Sir Thomas), Liza Sadovy (Lady Bertram), Julia McKenzie (Mrs Norris), David Tennant (Tom), Toby Jones (Rushworth), Susan Lynch (Mary), James Callis (Henry), Kate Fleetwood (Maria), Gareth Corke (Yates).

2003:
13 December

PLAY OF THE WEEK: THE COCKTAIL PARTY (Role: Peter Quilpe)

BBC World Service (Sunday, 1830–2000 GMT)

By: T.S. Eliot

Directed by: Marion Nancarrow

Cast included: Ian McDiarmid.

2004:
5 June

THE SATURDAY PLAY: THE BIGGEST SECRET (Role: Captain Rob Collins)

BBC Radio 4 (Saturday, 1515–1700)

Produced by: Jeremy Howe

Cast included: Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Claudia Harrison (Cpl Cunningham), Danny Webb (Jack), Kaye Wragg (Gloria), Joseph Tremain (Ray), Ben Tibber (Tim), Colin Stinton (Gen. Eisenhower), Bertie Carvel (Flt. Lt. Parker), Alice Hart (Rosie), Emily Chennery (Lilly), Ricci Harnett (Eddie), Philip Fox (Monty).

[The play was broadcast as part of a day of programmes commemorating the 60th anniversary of D Day.]

2004:
5–9, 12–16 July

A BOOK AT BEDTIME: THE SURGEON’S MATE (Reader (all parts))

BBC Radio 4 (Mondays–Fridays, 2245–2300)

By: Patrick O’Brian

Abridged and produced by: Lisa Osborne

2004:
11 August

AFTERNOON PLAY: KEPLER (Role: Johannes Kepler)

BBC Radio 4 (Wednesday, 1415–1500)

By: John Banville

Directed by: Gemma McMullan

Cast included: Alun Armstrong (Tycho Brahe), Arabella Weir (Barbara Kepler), Gillian Kearney (Sophie), Scott Handy (Longberg), Geoffrey Beevers (Rudolph II), Kenny Baker (Jeppe), Marcella Riordan (Christine), Hannah R. Gordon (Regina), Simon Imrie (Messenger), Kevin Jackson (Court Official).

2004:
23–27 August

A BOOK AT BEDTIME: MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS (Reader (all parts))

BBC Radio 4 (Monday–Friday, 2245–2300)

By: Christopher Isherwood

2004:
28–29 August

THE ODYSSEY (Role: Telemachus)

BBC Radio 4

Part 1: 28 August 2004
(Saturday, 1430–1600)

Part 2: 28 August 2004
(Saturday, 2100–2230)

Part 3: 29 August 2004
(Saturday, 1500–1600)

By: Homer, dramatised by: Simon Armitage

Directed by: Janet Whitaker

Cast included: Amanda Redman (Penelope), Tim McInnerny (Odysseus), Janet McTeer (Athena), Frances Barber (Circe), John Wood (Zeus), Mary Wimbush (Eurycleia), Danny Webb (Antinous), Geoffrey Whitehead (King Alcinous), Cheryl Campbell (Queen Arete), Jonathan Keeble (Eurymathus), Barrie Rutter (Cyclops), Adjoa Andon (Calypso).

2004:
13 September

HEARTS OF OAK: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Role: Narrator)

BBC Radio 4 (Monday, 1530–1545)

By: Patrick O’Brian.

2005:
7 March

BEYOND THE SURGERY: BAPTISM BY ROTATION (Reader)

BBC Radio 4 (Monday, 1530–1545)

By: Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny

[This was the first in a series of four readings (broadcast daily) about authors who had practised as doctors before concentrating on writing. The working title of the series was ‘Medical Humanities’.]

2005:
1–8 May, 29 May–5 June

THE CLASSIC SERIAL: THE RAJ QUARTET (Role: Nigel Rowan)

BBC Radio 4 (Sundays, 1500–1600, repeated following Saturdays, 2100–2200)

Cumberbatch appeared in
episodes 4, 5, 8 and 9
of this
nine-part
dramatisation.

The Day of the Scorpion (episodes 4–6; Cumberbatch appeared in episodes 4 and 5 only)

By: Paul Scott, dramatised by: Shelley Silas

Produced and directed by: Jeremy Mortimer

Cast included: Lia Williams (Sarah), Geraldine James (Mildred), Alex Tregear (Susan), Nicholas Boulton (Teddie),
Mark Bazeley (Ronald), Irene Sutcliffe (Lady Manners), Gary Waldhorn (Count Bronowski), Selina Griffiths (Fenny), Nadim Sawalha (Pandit), Prasanna Puwanarajah (Hari), Bhaskar Patel (Gopal), Marcia Warren (Barbie), Margaret Tyzack (Mabel), Nina Wadia (Aunt Shalina).

A Division of the Spoils (episodes 8–9; Cumberbatch appeared in episodes 8 and 9 only)

By: Paul Scott, dramatised by: Shelley Silas

Produced and directed by: Sally Avens

Cast included: Lia Williams (Sarah), Jeremy Northam (Guy), Gary Waldhorn (Count Bronowski), Shiv Grewal (Ahmed), Mark Bazeley (Ronald), Hugh Dickson (Col. Layton), Matthew Thomas-Davies (Edward), Alex Tregear (Susan), Sam D’Astor (Mak), Stuart McLoughlin (Sergeant).

[The four Scott novels spread across the nine parts of the serial were as follows:

10–24 April 2005 (parts 1–3): The Jewel in the Crown

1–15 May 2005 (parts 4–6): The Day of the Scorpion

[Cumberbatch appeared in parts 4 and 5 only]

22 May 2005 (part 7): The Towers of Silence

29 May–5 June 2005 (parts 8–9): A Division of the Spoils

[Cumberbatch appeared in parts 8 and 9 only].

2005:
2 July

FIELDSTUDY: THE FIELD (Reader)

BBC Radio 4 (Saturday, 0030–0045)

By: Rachel Seiffert, abridged by Richard Hamilton

Produced by: Elizabeth Allard.

2005:
12–16, 19–23 September

A BOOK AT BEDTIME: LE PÈRE GORIOT (Reader)

BBC Radio 4 (Mondays–Fridays, 2245–2300)

By: Honoré de Balzac, abridged by Sally Marmion

Producer: Di Spiers

(Written in 1835, as part of Balzac’s series of novels,
La Comedie Humaine
.)

2005:
21 September

AFTERNOON PLAY: SEVEN WOMEN (Role: Tovey)

BBC Radio 4 (Wednesday, 1415–1500*)

By: J.M. Barrie

Adapted and directed by: Julia McKenzie

Produced by: Bruce Hyman

Cast included: Bill Paterson (J.M. Barrie), Diana Quick (Mrs Tovey), Alexander Armstrong (Rattray), Harriet Walter (Leonora)

[*
Seven Women
shared the 45-minute ‘Afternoon Play’ slot with another Barrie play,
The 12-Pound Look
.]

2005:
20 November–11 December

THE CLASSIC SERIAL: THE GLITTERING PRIZES (Role: Dan (all episodes))

BBC Radio 4 (Sundays, 1500–1600, repeated following Saturdays, 2100–2200)

Adapted by: Frederic Raphael, from his own novel

Produced and directed by: Pete Atkin

Series cast included: Jamie Glover (Adam), Jemma Redgrave (Barbara), Damian Lewis (Donald), Robert Bathurst (Alan),
Dominic Hawksley (Mike), Anton Lesser (Bill), Lynsey Baxter (Lady Frances), Henry Goodman (Lionel), Frederic Raphael (Narrator).

2006:
7 May

DRAMA ON 3: THE POSSESSED (Role: Nikolai Stavrogin)

BBC Radio 3 (Sunday, 1950–2130)

By: Lou Stein, based on the novel by Dostoyevsky

Cast included: John Sessions (Govorov), Susannah York (Varvara Petrovna), Paul McGann (Peter Verhovensky), Anne-Marie Duff (Liza/Marya), Dexter Fletcher (Virginsky/Kirillov), Roger Lloyd Pack (Liputin/Stepan), Brian Bovell (Shatov).