Biography of actor David Rintoul from Aberdeen who is famous for playing Doctor Finlay on TV and Baby's Dad Dr Jake Houseman in Dirty Dancing
The actor David Rintoul was born on the 29 November 1948 in Aberdeen, Scotland. His
birth name was David Wilson. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen City.
David started acting at a young age and attended the Aberdeen Children's Theatre and was a Scottish Country dancer at Queen's Cross Church where
he won many awards.
His father was Doctor Leslie Wilson who helped advance elderly care services throughout Aberdeenshire. His mother, Helen, was a PE teacher.
David Rintoul graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA and then attended RADA. His first role after RADA was in Aladdin at the Connaught Theatre in
Worthing, Sussex.
David Rintoul is engaged to actress Vivien Heilbron who played Detective Sergeant Louise Colbert in Target and as Beatrice Protheroe in The New Statesman. She has
had various parts on the stage including productions of Shakespeare's plays at Stratford such as Olivia in Twelfth Night and Titania in A Midsummer Night's
Dream. In March 2008 Vivien Heilborn starred in the production The Life of Grassic Gibbon at HMT Aberdeen. Her engagement to David Rintoul was announced after the show and their wedding date announced as the 3 August 08.
Vivien Heilborn had previously starred in the 1971 BBC production of Sunset Song, a Lewis Grassic Gibbon book, where she played the lead role Chris Guthrie.
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Dirty Dancing
David Rintoul is currently playing the role of Baby's Dad Dr Jake Houseman in the production of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre in West End London.
This musical is based
on the 1987 film Dirty Dancing which starred Jennifer Grey as Frances 'Baby' Houseman, Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle and Jerry Orbach as Doctor Jake Houseman.
The plot of Dirty Dancing is about the family of Housemans who go on vacation to a holiday camp. Their youngest daughter who is nicknamed Baby takes dancing
classes with a dance teacher called Johnny. They fall in love despite being from different cultures. The stage show includes the popular hit songs
Time Of My Life, Do You Love Me? and She's Like The Wind and some that have been specially written for the theatre production by the writer Eleanor Bergenstein.
The director is James Powell and it is produced by Jacobsen Entertainment and Karl Sydow in association with Lions Gate Films and Eleanor Bergenstein.
Other members of the cast include Isabella Calthorpe, Nigel Williams, Rae Baker, Billy Boyle, Richard Dempsey, Jason Griffiths, Richard Lloyd King, Richard O'Brien,
Ursula Smith, Lucy Banfield, Ian Banham, Sarah Bowden, Melissa Keyes, Paul Kitson, Tanya Perera and Emma Woods.
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Doctor Finlay
David Rintoul's most famous television role was as Doctor Finlay opposite to
Ian Bannen as Doctor Cameron in the 1993 remake of the popular TV series about two Scottish
Doctors in a small village. It also starred Annette Crosbie as the housekeeper Janet MacPherson.
The series ran to three series from 1993 to 1996. There were 24 episodes.
The original Doctor Finlay's Casebook was shown on BBC1
from 1962 to 1971 and run for 8 series with 191 episodes. The stars were Bill Simpson as Dr. Finlay, Andrew Cruickshank as Dr. Cameron and Barbara Mullen as Janet.
Television And Film Roles Of David Rintoul
The first TV role of David Rintoul was in 1973 when he played Archie Weir in Weir of Hermiston. Other small parts soon followed including a part in a Lord Peter Wimsey
mystery called Five Red Herrings where he played Jock Graham. In the 1977 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame he played Jehan.
Within a few years David Rintoul gained larger parts such as Dr John Willis in Prince Regent (1979) and Dick Mallen in The Mallens. In 1980 he played
Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy in the TV mini series of Pride and Prejudice.
Like most Scottish actors David Rintoul has appeared in Taggart. He played two roles - in 1990 he was Alistair Balmain in the episode Death Comes Softly
and then Assistant Chief Constable Torrance in the episode The Ties That Bind (2005). Other crime dramas that David Rintoul has acted in includes
Agatha Christie's Poirot in the story The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990) where he played John Cavendish. He played Sir John Phillips in the Ngaio Marsh's
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries in The Nursing Home Murder in 1993.
David Rintoul has appeared in the highly popular TV series Hornblower as Dr Clive the Ship's Surgeon. Some could say his strong Scottish burr and
calm bedside manner has type cast him to play Doctors! Though we won't mention the panned Sweet Medicine ITV programme that was dropped after one series. Though David did
act the part of a roguish Doctor with an eye for the lassies well! His character was called Andrew Sweet and he was certainly no sweetie! A real contrast to the
delightful Doctor John Finlay.
David Rintoul appears often on the stage and has even been back to Aberdeen to act in a pantomime at
His Majesty's Theatre.
The Making of Modern Medicine Radio 4 Series
In 2007 David Rintoul was a reader and played some of the characters in Radio 4 factual serial The Making of Modern Medicine. In was on every weekday afternoon at 3:45 in February and March. Other readers and character actors were Peter Capaldi and Jason Watkins, the narrator and writer was Andrew Cunningham.
The 30 part radio series The Making of Modern Medicine narrated and told the story of modern Western medicine through the centuries with historical accounts of ancient Greek and Roman medicine.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Recital
In August 2007 David Rintoul and his partner, Vivien Heilbron, took part in a recital on the life of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The script was written by North East
author Jack Webster. Vivien Heilbron has had previous links with the Aberdeenshire author when in 1971 she played Chris Guthrie in Sunset Song which was based on one
of the novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Vivien Heilbron narrated the recital whilst husband David Rintoul played the part of Mearns writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The Lewis
Grassic Gibbon recital took place at the Lewis Grassic Gibbon centre at Arbuthnott on 19 August 2007.
The daughter of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Rhea, was in attendance.
The actor David Rintoul was born on the 29 November 1948 in Aberdeen, Scotland. His
birth name was David Wilson. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen City.
