Brian Bedford's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Brian Bedford (16 February 1935 – 13 January 2016) was an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for February 16 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1971 Best Actor in a Play (The School for Wives) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1971 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — The School for Wives as Arnolphe

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Brian Bedford's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Brian Bedford. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Brian Bedford in the public record

Known for his work on stage and screen, he was an actor and director in various Shakespearian productions. Bedford was nominated for seven Tony Awards for his theatrical work, winning once. He served as the voice of Disney's Robin Hood from the 1973 animated film of the same name. Brian Bedford was born in Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 16 February 1935, the son of Ellen (née O'Donnell) and Arthur Bedford, a postman. He attended St Bede's Grammar School in Bradford, leaving at the age of 15. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1952 to 1955. At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Peter O'Toole. Primarily a stage actor, he appeared in English-speaking interpretations of the French playwright Molière, including Tony Award nominated performances in Tartuffe, The Molière Comedies (a double bill of the short plays The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold) and The School for Wives, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Brian Bedford (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, 4♦, 5♥, 5♠, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Also on the record

1. He performed Shakespearean work, such as Ariel in The Tempest opposite John Gielgud's Prospero in 1958, and at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada including Angelo in Measure for Measure, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and the title role in Richard III directed by Robin Phillips, and The Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It (as Jacques), and Timon of Athens (as Timon) on Broadway, with the National Actors Theatre in 1993.
2. Bedford's additional Broadway credits include The Seven Descents of Myrtle, Private Lives, Two Shakespearean Actors, London Assurance and Jumpers.
3. Bedford appeared with James Garner in the 1966 film Grand Prix, and in 1967 he was a regular on the CBS series Coronet Blue.
4. He provided the voice of the title character in the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood, which director Byron Howard credits as a major inspiration for the Academy Award-winning animated film, Zootopia.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alexis Smith — 1972 Best Actress in a Musical (Follies)
• Geoffrey Rush — 2009 Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King)
• Jefferson Mays — 2004 Best Actor in a Play (I Am My Own Wife)
• Joaquina Kalukango — 2022 Best Actress in a Musical (Paradise Square)
• Joshua Henry — 2026 Best Actor in a Musical (Ragtime)
• Katharine Cornell — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Antony and Cleopatra)
• Mark Rylance — 2008 Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing); 2011 Best Actor in a Play (Jerusalem)
• Robert Preston — 1958 Best Actor in a Musical (The Music Man); 1967 Best Actor in a Musical (I Do! I Do!)

FAQ

What is Brian Bedford's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. February 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Brian Bedford's dates come from?

Birth date 1935-02-16 is the day-precision date on Brian Bedford's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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