Question: What novelist had their work adapted for TV and acted in by a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic?
Context: Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.  The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London.  It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a financially independent organisation in the 1990s.  Bristol Old Vic runs a popular, and highly successful Young Company for young people aged 7–25. Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.  Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years.  Despite his traditional actor training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.  He would often remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health.  He is one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only five films since 1998, with as many as five years between roles.  Protective of his private life, he rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. Robert Wysome (born 1946) is the conductor of New College Chorale based in Wellington, Shropshire, is the former Conductor of the Shropshire Youth Orchestra, Musical Director for the Shropshire Music Service and a notable Pianist and Organist.  He was born in South Wales and began his musical career as an organist and accompanist.  He read music at Cardiff University where he studied composition with Alun Hoddinott CBE and organ with Robert Joyce at Llandaff Cathedral.  He was organist at St. John the Baptist Church in Cardiff for several years before moving to Bristol where he performed widely as a conductor and accompanist, working with Bristol Opera Company, University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra and Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company. Gulliver's Travels is a British/American TV miniseries based on Jonathan Swift's novel of the same name, produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment.  This miniseries is notable for being one of the very few adaptations of Swift's novel to feature all four voyages.  The miniseries aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4, and in the US on NBC in February 1996.  The miniseries stars Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Omar Sharif, Isabelle Huppert, Geraldine Chaplin, Shashi Kapoor, Warwick Davis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alfre Woodard, Kate Maberly, Tom Sturridge, Richard Wilson and Nicholas Lyndhurst.  It was shot in England and Portugal. Follow That Girl is a musical adapted by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds from their original Bristol Old Vic production "Christmas in King Street".  The story centers on a girl named Victoria Gilchrist, whose parents want her to marry one of two businessmen.  She objects and runs away.  Her capture after a long chase by a policeman, Tom, leads to romance and finally marriage to him.  The original production contained many topical and local Bristol references — the heroine Victoria was named after the Bristol University Students Union building — but most of these were replaced when the show was revamped for its West End production. Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory is a professional theatre company based at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol, England.  It was founded by Andrew Hilton in 1999, with the initial aim of producing two Shakespeare plays between mid February and May each year.  The plan was to operate without subsidy, seeking instead sponsorship and using an ensemble of actors recruited or each season.  Hilton, an established actor, had spent ten years teaching the craft of Shakespearean theatre at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Ian McCurrach (born c. 1959) is a British actor, director, journalist and author.  Ian trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and he is probably best known for his portrayal of the lead character of Pip in a Peter Coe production of Dickens' "Great Expectations" at the Old Vic Theatre in London in 1985 and for his weekly travel column in "The Independent on Sunday" since 2009. Peter Seamus O'Toole ( ; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an Anglo-Irish stage and film actor.  He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the before making his film debut in 1959. Gerald Harper (born 15 February 1929) is an English actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title roles in "Adam Adamant Lives! " (1966–67) and "Hadleigh" (1969–76).  He then returned to his main love, the theatre.  His classical work includes playing on Broadway with the Old Vic company, playing Iago at the Bristol Old Vic and Benedick at the Chichester Festival Theatre.  Other plays in London included "Crucifer of Blood" at the Haymarket Theatre, "House Guest", "A Personal Affair", "Suddenly at Home" and "Baggage".  He has directed many plays, amongst them a production of "Blithe Spirit" in Hebrew at the Israeli National Theatre. Alan Morrissey (born 9 October 1982) is a British actor who was born in Stepping Hill Hospital & lived in the Farmers Arms pub, Stockport, where his parents were the licensees.  He grew up in Stockport and then Oldham.  Alan trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.  In 2002 and again in 2003 Dame Maggie Smith and The Fenton Arts Trust awarded him the bursary for Talented potentials.  He graduated from the Old Vic Theatre School in 2004.
Answer: Jonathan Swift