JOHN NOBLE was Artistic Director of the Stage Company of South Australia for ten years. He directed David Williamson’s Sons of Cain on London’s West End and acted in an award winning production of Rob George’s Errol Flynn’s Great Big Adventure Book For Boys at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Other highlights of his stage career include producing over 70 new Australian plays, 240 performances of Ron Blair’s one man play The Christian Brothers, and directing the enormously successful Percy and Rose by Rob George for the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts and subsequent National tour. In Australia, he had guest roles on many television series and was a semi-regular for five years on “All Saints” as the crusty neurosurgeon, Dr. John Madsen. He appeared in the US television movies The Outsider, Superfire and The Natalie Wood Story. In The Lord of the Rings trilogy John played the role of Denethor in Return of the King and The Two Towers. On US network television John has appeared on “24,” “The Unit,” “Journeyman” and on CBS’s “The Good Wife.” In 2008 he landed the role of Dr Walter Bishop on JJ Abrams cult favorite “Fringe,”and in 2011 won the inaugural Critics’ Choice Television Award and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. “Fringe” has just completed its fifth and final season. John hosts the quirky science series “Dark Matters” for the Science Channel. He is an active voice artist. Recent projects include LA Noire, Superman: Unbound, Transformers Prime and The Last Airbender. He recently reunited with “Fringe” co-creators Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci to become a series regular on Fox’s freshman hit “Sleepy Hollow.”
