Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.
Cumberbatch studied drama at the Victoria University of Manchester and obtained a Master of Arts in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He began acting in Shakespearean theatre productions before making his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has starred in Royal National Theatre productions of After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011), winning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for the latter. In 2015, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.
Cumberbatch's television work includes his performance as Stephen Hawking in the film Hawking (2004). He gained wide recognition for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. For playing the title role in the miniseries Patrick Melrose (2018), he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor.
In films, Cumberbatch received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014) and a volatile rancher in The Power of the Dog (2021). He has acted in several period dramas, including Amazing Grace (2006), Atonement (2007), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Current War (2017), 1917 (2019) and The Courier (2020). He has also starred in numerous blockbuster films portraying Smaug and Sauron in The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in the films Doctor Strange (2016) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
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Date: 19 July 1976
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
M'Bow says charge by Inter-Amer Press Assn that UNESCO conf here is aiding groups trying to gag free press is case of seeking 'freedom of expression for themselves without allowing others to express themselves' (S)
Date: 20 July 1976
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
HR investigator David W Bowers repts 4-mo, $150,000 investigation has narrowed search but has not yet found person who made unauthorized disclosure of classified HR Select Com on Intelligence rept; says more than 400 persons have been int to try to determine how copy of rept had made its way to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr and then to Village Voice; Bowers is 1st witness as HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct begins 2 wks of public hearings on unauthorized disclosure; Repr Otis G Pike testifies he does not know how document was leaked; Repr John J Flynt Jr says that com would seek to determine whether new legis or HR rules changes are needed to handle classified information (S)
Date: 20 July 1976
By Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr article on CIA's protection of confidentiality of its intelligence sources and its links with news media; holds there has been pattern of cooperation between CIA and employers of journalists; notes that former NY Times staff member Wayne Phillips has stated that CIA tried to recruit him in '52 while he was studying at Columbia Univ and said that CIA official told him that CIA had 'working arrangement' with then NY Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; notes that former CBS News pres Sig Mickelson has said that in '54 he was called to office of CBS bd chmn William S Paley in whose presence 2 CIA officials told him that Austin Goodrich, CBS News stringer in Stockholm, was CIA agent; drawing (M)
Date: 20 July 1976
By JAMES F. CLARITY Special to The New York Times
James CLARITY
Article on some popular TV newscasters in Eur; illus of West Ger announcer Karl Heinz Kopeke, Yugoslavian newscaster Borivoje Mirkovic, French newscaster Roger Gicquel and Brit TV personality David Dimbleby (L)
Date: 20 July 1976
By JAMES F. CLARITY Special to The New York Times
James CLARITY