Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier.

Biography

Stephens was married four times:


1951: to Nora Ann Simmons; they had one child, Michael Stephens, and divorced 1952.
1956: to Tara Bassett; they had a daughter Lucy Dillon (née Stephens, Stephens-Gresser) and divorced 1967
1967: to Maggie Smith; they had two sons, the actors Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin, and divorced in 1974.
1995: to Belfast-born Patricia Quinn (aka Lady Stephens; born 28 May 1944); they met in 1975, shortly after a brief relationship between Stephens and writer Antonia Fraser had ended, while acting together in Murderer in London.

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