JAMES AUBREYStage and screen actor James Aubrey died in April 2010, aged 62.He was best known for his role in the disturbing LWT drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976). He reprised his role as love rat Gavin Sorenson in the 1977 sequel Another Bouquet.He was also remembered for playing ambivalent hero Ralph in the 1963 film of Lord of the Flies, an adaptation by Peter Brook deemed so shocking that none of the young cast could attend its premiere because of the X certificate.A year before Lord of the Flies, Aubrey – born in Austria and schooled in Jamaica, Germany and Singapore owing to his father's army career – had made his theatrical début the year before and he continued developing his skills at London's Drama Centre at the late 1960s.He went on to perform with such notable companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Birmingham Rep and worked at theatres up and down the country.Other screen roles included an appearance in the Sex Pistols mockumentary The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980), press drama Lytton's Diary (1986) and The Men's Room (1991) with Bill Nighy. He played a passport officer in Cry Freedom (1987) and featured in the big budget thriller Spy Game (2001).
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