Acting experience
Previous paid speaking roles
Acting agent
Ray Knight Casting
Languages
Accents
- Australian
- Irish
- UK Cockney
- UK English
- UK Posh
- UK Scottish
- UK Welsh
- USA New York
- USA Southern
- Italian
- Pacific Islander
Union memberships
I have been in the highly-acclaimed Channel Five documentary 'She's 78, he's 39 - Age gap Love', with my wife Nikki. I have also been in a popular music video for rising Norwegian band 'Grandma's Tea Party' playing an OAP attending Grandma's tea party, and ending up with a food fight and a duel with another old man with walking sticks! The track is 'AWise Man Told Me' and is due for release in April 2012. I appeared in 'Odd One In' in May 2011 dressed in Dickensian costume, and on Fern Britton's show 'Fern' on Channel Four as a Disney obsessive. I appeared with Morgana Robinson in her Channel 4 Show 'The Morgana' Show, where Morgana's 'redneck' character came on to my hillbilly character. I have been in 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Sherlock Holmes 2'. My wife Nikki (who is 37) and I have appeared on 'John Bishop's Britain' , talking about keeping the spark alive in our marraige. I have played an old university Student recalling his days at uni in a comedy production . I played the part of 'Jock Strapp' a Scots biker who laughs himself to death in the promotional video for 'Dead Funny', a book by Warwick & Fru Jaggard. I played an evil scientist in the CBBC production 'M I High'. A Minister of Magic in 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows', and have appeared on the line-up for 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' with the drummer with 'Procol Harum'. My wife and I appeared on The Graham Norton Show' in a game of 'Match the couple'. I got the crowd singing in Liecester Square in an ad for T-Mobile for Saatch and Saatchi. I have been in three Harry Potter movies & been a guest on the Richard & Judy Show. I have acted as a retired comic in the BBC sketch show 'Stewart Lee', .I acted as a Romany in 'Ashes to Ashes', and appeared on 'This Morning' with my fiancee (now my wife) Nikki. talking about our 37-year age-gap relationship. I have also done several episodes of 'The Bill' on my own, and with my wife. I have also been filming. as a villager, with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Benecio Del Toro in the Hollywood movie, 'Wolfman'. I also appeared in five episodes of 'Midsomer Murders, also with Nikki. I have also played a drunkard in the 2007 BBC production of 'Oliver Twist', with a small speaking part. I have also completed a short film, as a main character,Charlie Henderson, titled 'The Need' in which Charlie gets strangled by a vigilante! I appeared on stage in pantomime,as a 'camp' Genii of The Lamp, the voice can be heard on my audio clip.I have compered many variety shows in the fifties and sixties,doing comedy routines and impersonations. I have appeared in music hall singing old time songs, amatuer dramatics, amateur films and musicals. I can mimic many UK accents, including Scots, as well as USA, as you can hear on my audio clip.
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