Welcome to the website of British actor Roger Harding
Rog is a Stratford-upon-Avon based actor, writer and film maker
Roger Harding
Since his early days of training at Guildhall, Rog has been involved in theatre, film, TV and radio. He has been described as versatile - but that's probably because he'll take any job going ....
More recently he has been producing his own writing for TV and on film. See Two Hats Films for his most recent work
TV
Continuing his Coombe Abbey theme, Rog has been murdering or being murdered quite a lot recently. Firstlook TV has been busy producing dramatised documentaries for which they have recently won an award from the Royal Television Society Midlands Awards 2020 - Factual and Specialist Factual.
Rog has been shot, beaten, pushed down the stairs and smothered but he keeps coming back to play investigating detectives. Series include The Lady Killers, Nurses Who Kill, The Killer's Mistake
Film
Rog has many years experience shooting films. Here's a random selection of shots from films he has shot with Fridge Productions, Shift 7 and Pixel Revoution Films
Murders and Banquets
Rog is very pleased to have been part of the team which stages entertainments at Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire since 2013.
Alas, COVID has put paid to live entertainment for the time being but we hope to revive the current murder soon
Shakespeare Schoolrooms
One of the advantages of living in Stratford-upon-Avon is the inevitable exposure to the life, times and works of William Shakespeare. The town boasts the schoolroom where Shakespeare was almost certainly educated. Given that education was free for every boy in the town it is inconceivable that young William did not attend, although it seems his father took him out of school early to earn some cash and help save the family finances.
Rog has been working at the Schoolroom playing Thomas Jenkins, apparently a Welshman, who taught Shakespeare Latin. It seems Thomas Jenkins was parodied in The Merry Wives of Windsor as Sir Hugh Evans. Elizabethan education was intensive and thorough and there is no reason why any boy with talent and intelligence could not have contributed a play or two to English dramaturgy. It's been an eye-opener to research the subject and lecture on it.
