Take Wittenberg, a university town where Luther started the Reformation, and where Prince Hamlet, allegedly, studied with his chums Rosenkranz and Guildenstern.
He formed The Actors' Company with Sir Ian McKellen, played Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby in the West End and on Broadway, has won an Olivier Award and was the original Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.