John Sessions
John Gibb Marshall was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as a panellist on QI. He also starred in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood. He died in a car crash in London in 2009.
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John Gibb Marshall was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood. Sessions was born in Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, but moved to Bedford, England, with his family when he was three years old. He later studied for a PhD on John Cowper Powys at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, although he did not complete the doctorate. In the early 1980s, he worked on the small venue comedy circuit with largely improvised freewheeling fantasy monologues. In 1987 he played Lionel Zipser in Channel 4’s mini-series Porterhouse Blue. In 1989, Sessions starred in his own one-man TV show, John Sessions. He also starred in the BBC drama Jute City, a three-part thriller based around a sinister Masonic bunch of villains, co-starring with vocalist Fish.
In 1996, he was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts to write Paint, said Fred, the life of Lord Frederic, Lord Leighton, the pre-eminent Victorian artist. Sessions later returned to formal acting with parts in James Boswell’s Tour of the Western Isles and Hercules, the BBC adaptation of Doctor Prunesquallor’s Gormenghast. In 1998, he starred in Hercules as a manager, HR Fortenghino, a HResque manager, playing several parts of them in each episode of each episode. He died in a car crash in London in 2009. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son, John Marshall, who was a schoolfriend of Kenneth Branagh when he studied at RADA in the late 1970s. His name change occurred when he became a performer, owing to the presence of a John Marshall on the Equity register already.
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