David Burt
David Burt (1953) is a British actor, known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End performances. David Burt is the son of Pip Hinton, better known for her role in "Crackerjack" alongside Eamonn Andrews and later Leslie Crowther. He graduated from RADA. His West End theatre work includes "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Chess", "Les Misérables" and "Cats". He has also played many leading roles at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television work includes "The Trojan Horse", "Poldark" and "The Merchant of Venice". Burt played the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in  Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White" at the Palace Theatre (2005) and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in "Show Boat" at the Royal Albert Hall. He played nefarious prison officer Jim Fenner in "" at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End (2007). He toured the UK Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott in G. M. Calhoun's "The Last South" (2008). Other London credits include Anatoly in "Chess", Orin Scrivello DDS in "Little Shop of Horrors", Captain Harkness in the world premiere musical adaptation of "The Far Pavilions", Vic Christian in the Pet Shop Boys' musical "Closer  to Heaven", and Ernest Hemingway in the musical "Beautiful and Damned". He also appeared in the Royal National Theatre production of Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide". David Burt created the role of King John in "Blondel", by Tim Rice and Stephen Oliver. He can be heard on the 1985 original London cast recording of "Les Misérables", as Enjolras, and the 1996 London cast recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar". He was among the only members of the original principal "Les Misérables" cast not to appear at the , claiming he would not be able to sing the part in the encore anymore . In 2011, he starred as Zangler in "Crazy for You" at the Novello Theatre, London. Notable hijinks included handing a hard hat to an orchestra member during the bows, after accidentally sending a chair into the pit during Act 2. In 2014 he appeared alongside Gina Beck, Daniel Boys and Eve Polycarpou in "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" at the Charing Cross Theatre. In 2016, Burt starred in the world premiere of "The Buskers Opera" in London. He is currently appearing in "The Last Ones" by Maxim Gorky at London's Jermyn Street Theatre. David