Jack May
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1922-04-23
- Fallecimiento:
- 1997-09-19
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Biografía
Jack May was a mellifluous-voiced actor best known for playing butlers and establishment figures, often representing Britain's interests in far-flung corners of the empire. With regards the former, he memorably played William E. Simms, former music hall artise turned manservant to Gerald Harper's titular swashbuckling adventurer in '60s TV cult classic Adam Adamant Lives! as well as providing the voice of Igor, the long-suffering valet in Cosgrove Hall's 1980s animation Count Duckula. His film credits included the district commissioner in 1975's The Man Who Would Be King and the prosecuting naval attorney in the remake of The Bounty (1984). For many, May was Nelson Gabriel 'the most disreputable character in Ambridge' in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers. May took the role of the shady rogue, later antique dealer and wine bar owner, in 1952 and continued to play him right up until the year of his death, 1997. This 45 year stint made May, at the time, the fourth-longest serving soap opera star in the world. He died at the age of 75, on 19 September 1997, survived by his wife, the actress Petra Davies, his daughter Henrietta, and son David.
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Filmografía
Without Air
Willie's War
More Children's Holiday Favourites
Jeeves and Wooster
More Children's Summer Stories
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
El conde Duckula
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Hard Road
Muzzy
El doctor y los diablos
Bulman
The Shooting Party
Motín a bordo
A Swarm in May
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
El retorno del soldado
La hora de Agatha Christie
Friends and Other Lovers
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Guía del autoestopista galáctico
Escape
Whinfrey's Last Case
Shoestring
Henry VIII
A Horseman Riding By
Hawkmoor
Todas las criaturas grandes y pequeñas
The Children of the New Forest
Target
Elemental, Doctor Freud
El hombre que pudo reinar
Poldark
Dawson's Weekly
Soap Opera in Stockwell
Black and Blue
Big Zapper
Away from It All
The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
Van der Valk
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Brett
Budgie
The Ten Commandments
The Yes Girls
Trog
OVNI
Emma's Time
Adiós, Mr. Chips
The Main Chance
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Night After Night After Night
A Twist of Sand
Cómo gané la guerra
Golfus de Roma
The Last Invasion
You Can't Win
Adam Adamant Lives!
Stranger in the Family
Out of the Unknown
Six Shades of Black
The Wednesday Play
Detective
The Protectors
Doctor Who
Festival
Espionage
In Search of Sierra Nine
The Spread of the Eagle
A Prize of Arms
Solo for Sparrow
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Richard the Lionheart
The Traitors
A for Andromeda
Los vengadores
La extraña prisión de Huntleigh
Danger Man
There Was a Crooked Man
An Age of Kings
The Professionals
No Hiding Place
La última noche del Titanic
El enemigo silencioso
Pride and Prejudice
Nicholas Nickleby
Cat Girl
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Los hombres del bosque de Sherwood
Mark Saber
The Gay Dog
Trouble in Store
Behind the Headlines
Pool of London
El farol azul
Sunday Night Theatre
Matrimonio de estado
Breve encuentro
Johnny Frenchman
La vida manda
Deadlock
Millones como nosotros
El sexo débil