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Ray Stevenson (May 25, 1964 – May 21, 2023) was a film, TV and stage actor. He moved with his family to Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England in 1972 at the age of eight, and later to Cramlington, Northumberland, where he was raised. The second of three sons of a Royal Air Force pilot father and an Irish mother, As a child he dreamed to become an actor, but he also thought that dream was impossible. So he pursued his other love, art, and went to art school instead. He was an interior designer with an architectural firm in London when he at 25 decided to try out acting. Eventually he attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating at the age of 29. At the beginning of 90s, he began his career on films. He did a few TV films, one of them being The Return of the Native (1994), where he appeared opposite Clive Owen, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Steven Mackintosh. He also filmed The Theory of Flight (1998) Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Green-Eyed Monster (2001) (TV) and a lot of TV guest roles in series. Finally, he made a international breakout with King Arthur (2004), as quiet, but loyal knight Dagonet, again with Clive Owen (who played Arthur), Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard. After a few more TV films, Stevenson's popularity stared to rise by each film. But, the real fame comes with HBO's "Rome" (2005 - 2007), as funny, but heroically fearless legionary Titus Pullo, opposite Kevin McKidd. Another two well-known roles were in action horror Outpost (2008) and as comic book dark hero The Punisher / Frank Castle in extremely violent Punisher: War Zone (2008), opposite Dominic West (Jigsaw), Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight (Microchip), Dash Mihok (Det. Marin Soap) and Julie Benz. To mention that Stevenson also worked on stage. He played the part of Christ in the York Mystery Plays in 2000 at York Minster. In 2001 he took the part of Roger in the play Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot, at the Albery Theatre in London with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney. His most well-known part was perhaps that of the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster with Janet McTeer at the Royal National Theatre in 2003. Stevenson and his girlfriend Elisabetta Carccia have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson, who was born in 2007. Besides acting, he loved art and had a passion for water color painting.
Ray Stevenson
Man-At-Arms
for Man-At-Arms in Justin Mark's Grayskull: The Masters Of The Universe (2009)
Suggested by smurphys_law
After John Woo's attempt at a MOTU movie didn't come to fruition 20th Century Fox let the rights go back to Mattel, a writer at Silver Pictures named Kristian Harloff heard word that a script for a MOTU movie was in turnaround, being a lifelong fan of the I.P he wanted to give the script a read and after reading it he didn't like the current script and decided to make a treatment and try and get it picked up, with help of Mark E Reilly they pitched the idea to Legendary Pictures who was working with Warner Bros at the time Harloff had a meeting with Neal at Legendary and approved of the treatment and told Harloff that he'll see what he can do but a few weeks later Neal told him that the Studio passed on it because they were making a reboot of Conan the Barbarian and the movies felt too similar to each other so they decided to pass on MOTU and it was cut off like that, however Neal had kept treatment and sought to make it into a full script behind Harloff's back and hired Justin Marks to rewrite it and was now moving ahead at Warner Bros it was envisioned as an ambitious Lord of the Rings type of film, however they struggled to find a director but eventually John Stevenson was chosen to direct the film but however things stalled as a new writer was hired to rewrite the film and WB and Mattel were clashing over how the movie should be, and after awhile things fell apart, however what if this came to fruition? This is who i feel could've been casted in the roles.
