Reginald Tate Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Reginald Tate (13 December 1896 – 23 August 1955) was an English actor, veteran of many roles on stage, in film and on television. He is best remembered as the first actor to play the television science-fiction character Professor Bernard Quatermass, in the 1953 BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment. Reginald Tate was born in Garforth, near Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and went to school in York. During World War I he served with the Northamptonshire Regiment and later with the Royal Flying Corps. He left the armed forces after the end of the war and studied acting at... MORE

Reginald Tate (13 December 1896 – 23 August 1955) was an English actor, veteran of many roles on stage, in film and on television. He is best remembered as the first actor to play the television science-fiction character Professor Bernard Quatermass, in the 1953 BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment. Reginald Tate was born in Garforth, near Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and went to school in York. During World War I he served with the Northamptonshire Regiment and later with the Royal Flying Corps. He left the armed forces after the end of the war and studied acting at Leeds College of Music and Drama. He made his first professional acting appearance at Leeds Art Theatre in 1922, and for the next four years was a resident performer both there and at the city's Little Theatre. In 1926, he moved to London, with his first major role being in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Strand Theatre. He had particular success with the lead role of Stanhope in R.C. Sherriff's play Journey's End, playing the part in a 1929 tour of Australia and New Zealand and again in a 1934 revival production at the Criterion Theatre in London. He made his film debut in 1934 in LESS