Close To Home: Selected Short Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530428670)

William Roberts was born and raised in America's Pacific Northwest and pursued further education at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, the University of California at Riverside, and the University of Manchester, UK. After spending five years as actor/director with the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Ashland, Oregon, he moved to the United Kingdom and has been resident there from the late '60s and a member of British Actors' Equity since that time. A broadly experienced actor and voice artiste, he is a frequent reader of American works on BBC Radio and for various audiobook publishers, and is often heard voicing 'heavy' characters in major CD Rom games. Film and television appearances include: Behind Closed Doors, Infinite Justice, Cold Mountain, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Old Devils, Inspector Morse, and Mission Impossible 5- Rogue Nation. He is also a private pilot and owns his own plane based in London in which he flies all around Europe.