Beam Stevenson, Entertainer in ‘Thor’ and ‘Rome,’ Is Dead at 58

Beam Stevenson

Beam Stevenson, who in a 30-year profession played many jobs in TV and movies, among them a loquacious officer in the HBO verifiable show “Rome,” the privateer Blackbeard in the Starz series “Dark Sails” and the Asgardian hero Volstagg in the “Thor” dream motion pictures, kicked the bucket on Sunday. He was 58.

His marketing expert, Nicki Fioravante, affirmed his passing yet given no further subtleties. The Italian paper La Repubblica said Mr. Stevenson passed on the Italian island of Ischia, where he had been recording a film.

Mr. Stevenson was brought into the world on May 25, 1964, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, as per the Web Film Data set. He had started a profession in inside plan when, in his mid-20s, he chose to take a stab at acting. Seeing John Malkovich in the Lanford Wilson play “Consume This” in London’s West End in the mid 1990s was the impetus.

“I was dumbstruck by John’s exhibition,” he told the California paper The Fresno Honey bee in 2008. “Every other person vanished. I knew at that point something exceptionally legitimate about was being an entertainer.”

He learned at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School in Britain, where in 1993 he played the lead spot in a creation of “Macbeth.” Before the year was over he played handled a common part in an English smaller than normal series, “The Residence.” He had worked pretty much consistently from that point forward.

During the 1990s and mid 2000s, Mr. Stevenson showed up on different English television series, including the wrongdoing show “Band of Gold.” He handled his most memorable critical film job in 2004, playing the knight Dagonet in “Ruler Arthur,” with Clive Owen in the lead spot.

Then, at that point, came “Rome,” a cutting edge job in a major spending plan HBO series about old Rome that was the organization’s endeavor to make the following buzz-creating series later “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos.”

Mr. Stevenson’s personality, Titus Pullo, was, as Alessandra Stanley put it in a 2005 survey in The New York Times, “a smashed, womanizing brute — a soccer convict in shoes.” Titus Pullo’s kinship with one more Roman trooper, played by Kevin McKidd, was among the show’s most engaging subplots, and Mr. Stevenson, an enormous man at 6-foot-4, appeared to be very nearly something important.

“He’s sort of George Clooney on steroids,” Pursue Assistants of The St. Petersburg Seasons of Florida wrote in 2005. “When ‘Rome’ finishes its run, the Irish-conceived English entertainer will likely be a star, and an undeniable contender to supplant Russell Crowe when Hollywood becomes weary of that entertainer’s famously terrible way of behaving.”

Beam Stevenson

Beam Stevenson