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Roy Evans
Bristol, England, UK
Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan…
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Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder. Born in Fishponds, he was adopted by Edmund Evans and Clarice Augusta Georgina May Evans (née Gowen). As a teenager, Evans went to London to become a dancer and actor. His dancing work includes visiting the Nottingham Theatre Royal with the International Ballet Company in 1951, gaining a long run in A Girl Called Jo at Piccadilly Theatre followed by a six-month engagement as principal male ballet dancer with the Swedish national ballet company. In film he is particularly known for roles in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Oliver! (1968), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968), Where's Jack? (1969), Loving Memory (1971), Dark Places (1973), Jabberwocky (1977), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Company of Wolves (1984).
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2004
Global Conspiracy?
Movie Talfryn Pritchard
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2003
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Movie Ted Prendergast
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2003
The Gathering
Movie The Gathering
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1997
Ain't Misbehavin'
TV show Stage Door Keeper
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1995
Restoration
Movie Fleeing Man
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1995
Johnny and the Dead
TV show Boatman
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1993
The Hour of the Pig
Movie Travelling Player
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1991
Murder Most Horrid
TV show Carriage Driver
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1990
Hamlet
Movie The Players
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1989
Around the World in 80 Days
TV show Shirley Rose Engineer
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1989
Campion
TV show Branch
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1989
Death of a Son
Movie Undertaker
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1988
Andy Capp
TV show Workman
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1988
Border
Movie Lodger
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1986
Foreign Body
Movie Newspaper vendor
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1985
Lost In London
Movie Taxi Driver
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1985
Santa Claus: The Movie
Movie Village Leader (uncredited)
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1985
The Doctor and the Devils
Movie Sewerman
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1985
Super Gran
TV show Roland Rattray
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1985
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV show Sims
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Undertaker
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1984
Ellis Island
TV show Stage Door Guard
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1984
Return to Waterloo
Movie Mortuary Attendant
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1984
The Company of Wolves
Movie Eyepatch
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1983
Blackadder
TV show Abel, a Peasant
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1982
Imaginary Friends
Movie George
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1982
Baal
Movie 2nd Cab Driver
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1980
The Elephant Man
Movie Cabman
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1980
Cribb
TV show Shopkeeper
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1979
Schalcken the Painter
Movie Coachman
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1979
Minder
TV show Elderly Man
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1979
Terror
Movie Villager
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1979
Coming Out
Movie Charlie Rose
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1979
Worzel Gummidge
TV show Whelk-stall owner
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1979
Dick Turpin
TV show Fellowes
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1978
Les Misérables
Movie Brevet
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1978
Return of the Saint
TV show Dillon
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1978
The Big Sleep
Movie Deliveryman (uncredited)
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1978
Blake's 7
TV show Slave
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1977
Secret Army
TV show Belgian Farmer
