Trustees & Team

David Troughton has been an actor for over 57 years. He is best known for his varied roles at the RSC , which include among many others, Titus Andronicus, Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard III, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard and The Venetian Twins.

Other theatre includes the west end production of Alan Bennet’s Enjoy, Inherit the Wind at London’s Old Vic theatre, and productions of Peter Pan, Playing with Fire and Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre. He met his wife Ali in the west end production of Parents’ Day fifty-four years ago.

He is also known for his many roles on television, including Dr. Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, Ricky Hansen in New Tricks and Wellington in Sharpe.

Films include The Levelling, Captain Jack, Dance with a Stranger and The Chain.

Since 2012 he has played the role of Tony Archer in The Archers. 

David Troughton was born in Hampstead, London and attended Orange Hill Grammar School in Edgware. He is part of an acting family as the son of Patrick Troughton (the second incarnation of Doctor Who) and is father to actors Sam Troughton and William Troughton (who joined The Archers as Tony Archer’s son) and ex-England and Warwickshire cricketer Jim Troughton. His brother Michael and his nephew Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films) are also actors. David is absolutely nuts about cricket and has reluctantly recently retired as a qualified cricket umpire in the Warwickshire League.

I am absolutely delighted to be asked to be a patron of the Rother Street Arts House. 

Having lived in and around Stratford for over forty years, I have witnessed many changes to the building. Indeed, both my wife Ali and I have appeared there at various times. It is a seriously good space in which to perform and under its rejuvenated guise, its aim will be to reach out and fully involve and entertain the local community, as well as standing proud as a complementary venue to the RSC.