David Parfitt

David Parfitt (born July 8, 1958, Sunderland, England) is a film producer, and one of four young actors who played Nicholas Llewelyn Davies in the 1978 BBC mini-series The Lost Boys. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.

He was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999, and retains strong links with his home city and is a supporter of Sunderland Association Football Club. He vociferously endorses the city of Sunderland wherever he goes.

He played Peter Harrison in the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequel ...And Mother Makes Five. He played the original Tim Beecham in the BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers.

Parfitt began his stage career with Sunderland Empire Theatre Society in 1969 but he gave up acting in the late-1980's to concentrate on production, has been working as an independent film producer, and lives in Brixton with his wife Liz Parfitt and his three children Bill, Thomas, and Max. He is Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and has produced (or associate produced) many British films including Henry V, Peter's Friends, Swan Song, Much Ado About Nothing, The Madness of King George, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Twelfth Night, The Wings of the Dove, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York (Production Consultant), I Capture the Castle, Chasing Liberty, and A Bunch of Amateurs.