Actors
- Film and TV actors
- David Niven was the only actor to play Bertie in a theatrical film, in Thank You, Jeeves! (1935). But this film bore almost no resemblance to Wodehouse's fiction, and portrayed Bertie as a woman chaser, the opposite of the usual situation in the stories.
- Ian Carmichael played the part of Bertie (opposite Dennis Price as Jeeves) in the earlier BBC World of Wooster (1965–1967).
- Jonathan Cecil (who, like Wooster himself, was an Old Etonian) played him in the tribute Thank You, P. G. Wodehouse (1981).
- Hugh Laurie (also an Old Etonian) portrayed Bertie in the early-1990s ITV series Jeeves and Wooster opposite his long-time comedy partner, Stephen Fry, as Jeeves.
- Radio actors
- Terry-Thomas played Bertie in a dramatisation of "Jeeves Takes Charge" released as a record album in the 1960s.
- Richard Briers portrayed Bertie in BBC Radio 4 series What Ho, Jeeves! opposite Michael Hordern as Jeeves. The series ran occasionally from 1973 to 1981.
- Simon Cadell played Bertie opposite David Suchet as Jeeves in a BBC Saturday Night Theatre radio adaptation of "Right Ho Jeeves" in 1986 and also The Code of the Woosters.
- Marcus Brigstocke played Bertie in a Radio 4 adaptation of The Code of the Woosters in 2006, with Andrew Sachs as Jeeves.
- Audiobook actors
Audiobooks of many of the Jeeves stories and novels have been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer.
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