Bill Champion

Bill Champion

Bill trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and began his professional career with a long season at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich where he played Dennis in Habeas Corpus, Mike in Golden Girls, Gradgrind in Hard Times, Antipholus in The Comedy of Errors, Tom in Tom & Viv, and he danced & sang his way through Cabaret and The Boyfriend.

His many and varied theatre credits include: Ross in Macbeth; Peter in Company; Tony in Woman in Mind; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Pipe Dream; Music in the Air; Cliff in Cabaret at the Octagon Theatre Bolton; Dodson on the tour of Pickwick; Alfie in Alfie at The Oldham Coliseum; Wild, Wild Women at the Orange Tree, Richmond; and House and Garden at Salisbury Playhouse; the Library Theatre in Manchester in If I Were You, and the national tour of The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson, as Michael Gove !

In the West End Bill has played John and understudies the role of Rod in Calendar Girls; PC Ramsden in Rough Justice at the Apollo Theatre; Mr Myers in Fame at the Cambridge Theatre; and he understudied and played the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theatre.

Bill has had a very long and successful relationship with Alan Ayckbourn and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough where he has appeared in: They’re Playing Our Song; Love Songs for Shopkeepers; Memories are Made of This; RolePlay, FlatSpin, GamePlan (the Damsels in Distress trilogy which subsequently transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End); A Chorus of Disapproval; Haunting Julia; Moby Dick; Comic Potential, which had a critically acclaimed run in the West End; The Girl Next Door and Intimate Exchanges, which took him to New York where he was nominated as Best Actor in the Drama Desk Awards.  He was last seen at The Old Laundry Theatre Bowness playing in Welcome to the Family.

On TV Bill has appeared in Birds of a Feather; EastEnders; two series of Rockcliffe’s Babies; Casualty; Messiah; Island at War; If Only; The Bill; Wallis and Edward (as George VI) and Return to Rose Abbey.