Stephen Greif

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Stephen Greif (born 26 August 1944) is an award-winning English actor.

TV appearances include Waking the Dead, Spooks, Mistresses 2, He Kills Coppers, Holby City,The Last Days of Pompeii as Sporus, Judge John Deed, Space Race, EastEnders, The Bill and many more including the series Blake's 7, three series of Citizen Smith, and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Films include Boogie-Woogie, Shoot on Sight, Eichmann, Back to Business, Casanova, Sixty-Six, Spartan, The Upside of Anger, Fakers, and Dirty Money amongst others.

He has also appeared in many plays in the West End including" Six degrees of Separation" Epitaph for George Dillon with Joseph Fiennes, Fallen Angels with Felicity Kendal and Frances de la Tour, Reflected Glory with Albert Finney and Many Seasons at the National Theatre at The Old Vic in the Laurence Olivier era and on the South Bank under Peter Hall and Nicholas Hytner, winning Laurence Olivier Award and Critics' Circle Best Actor nominations for "Death of a Salesman" and "Saturday, Sunday, Monday" both for the National Theatre. He has also appeared with The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Prospect Theatre Company.

He has narrated countless talking books including The Match King, He Kills Coppers, Seeking Robinson Crusoe, The Boy with the Magic Numbers (for which he won the prestigious Earphones Award from BBC Audiobooks America), The Pianist, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and His Dark Materials. His radio work includes Peter Lorre V Peter Lorre,"Small acts of kindness", Harry and the Angels, The Grand Hotel Babylon, The Babbington Plot, The Devil was here Yesterday, The Iceman, Witness, Take-away, Down and Out in London and Paris, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and Hooligan Nights. He has also voiced hundreds of radio and television commercials as well as thousands of cinema and television promos and trailers, corporate presentations, narratives and scores of voices for computer games. He co-founded "VoiceQuality", a system for describing voices and being utilised by the actors' directory The Spotlight.