Derek Bell (actor)
Derek Bell was born in Halifax and raised in Doncaster. He graduated with an LGSM in Speech and Drama as well as A-levels and Oxford Entrance, followed by song and dance training during academic life at Oxford and Reading Universities, Italy, Germany and the Middle East.
Credits
Theatre work includes No.1 tours with several companies. Larry ([...] with Love) and Manningham (Gaslight); seasons at Chelmsford and Chesterfield, Sheppard (Alibi) at Chelmsford ; leads at Hampstead (Partners in Crime), Edmonton (Outside Edge), Wimbledon (Michaelangelo’s Slave) and Johnny Ball’s Charles Darwin. His Shakespeare roles have been at Reading’s Progress Theatre (Ariel), at Hamburg’s English Theatre (Feste), in Heartbreak’s Hamlet Tour (Claudius), and at the Bushey and Tallyllyn Festivals. He played Arthur in Graham Watts’ spectacular and very physical production of Godber’s Up’n’Under, at London Ashcroft and Chelmsford Civic, and Frank in This Happy Breed at the Wimbledon Theatre.
Musical theatre work includes Kean (Watford Palace), Guettel’s Floyd Collins (Bridewell), Chater and Chater’s Pinocchio (Hounslow), Adrian Hilton/Wayne Sleep’s Roll Over Jehovah! (Hampstead) and the surreal experience of Francesca Zambello’s Tosca (Earl’s Court). In Children’s Theatre he has performed leads in Doncaster, Cheltenham, Swaledale, and at London’s Charles Cryer Children’s Theatre.
Film and Television credits include HTV, The Bill, Crimewatch, EastEnders, 20/20TV, Bliokh in Potemkin: The Runner’s Cut with Charles Dance, and Geri Halliwell’s video It’s Raining Men. His corporate work involves extensive filming, roleplaying, facilitating and image consultancy.