Jack May
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1922-04-23
- Décès:
- 1997-09-19
- Lieu de naissance:
- Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Biographie
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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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
Comte Mordicus
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Hard Road
Big Muzzy
Le Docteur et les Assassins
Bulman
The Shooting Party
Le Bounty
A Swarm in May
Les deux font la paire
The Return of the Soldier
Agatha Christie - Dix brèves rencontres
Friends and Other Lovers
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Escape
Whinfrey's Last Case
Shoestring
Henry VIII
A Horseman Riding By
Hawkmoor
All Creatures Great and Small
The Children of the New Forest
Target
Sherlock Holmes attaque l'Orient-Express
L'homme qui voulut être roi
Poldark
Dawson's Weekly
Soap Opera in Stockwell
Black and Blue
On m'appelle Zapper
Away from It All
The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
Van der Valk
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
Brett
Budgie
The Ten Commandments
The Yes Girls
L'abominable homme des cavernes
UFO, alerte dans l'espace
Emma's Time
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Main Chance
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Night After Night After Night
A Twist of Sand
Comment j'ai gagné la guerre
Le Forum en folie
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
Les clés de la citadelle
Solo for Sparrow
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Richard Cœur de Lion
The Traitors
A for Andromeda
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
Le paradis des monte-en-l'air
Destination Danger
There Was a Crooked Man
An Age of Kings
Les Professionnels
No Hiding Place
Atlantique, latitude 41°
L'Ennemi silencieux
Pride and Prejudice
Nicholas Nickleby
Cat Girl
Le Chevalier Lancelot
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
La Revanche de Robin des Bois
Mark Saber
The Gay Dog
Trouble in Store
Behind the Headlines
Les Trafiquants du Dunbar
La lampe bleue
Sunday Night Theatre
Sarabande
Brève rencontre
Johnny Frenchman
Heureux mortels
Deadlock
Millions Like Us
The Gentle Sex