Seán Barrett | |
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| Born | Seán Justin Barrett (1940-05-04)4 May 1940 (age 84) |
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| Years active | 1952–present |
Seán Justin Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is a British actor.
Barrett began his career as a child actor, appearing onBBC children's television and in films such asBang! You're Dead,A Cry from the Streets,War and Peace,The Genie andFour Sided Triangle.[1]
Years later he made many appearances in television and films includingITV Television Playhouse,Z-Cars,The Wednesday Play,Cast a Giant Shadow,Emergency Ward 10,Chronicle,Armchair Theatre,Hell Boats,Moonstrike,Attack on the Iron Coast,Softly, Softly,BBC Play of the Month,Paul of Tarsus,Tales of the Unexpected,Father Ted,Holby City,Brush Strokes,Minder,Poldark,Noah's Ark andTheatre 625.[2][3]
In the mid-1970s Barrett was cast in the BBC Radio series of George Simenon's Inspector Maigret novels as Maigret's subordinate, Inspector Janvier. He has performed the voices of Asterix, Caius Tiddlius, Fulliautomatix, Roman Ghost, Cylindric, Mannikinpix, Gladiator Trainer and Jailer in the English version ofThe Twelve Tasks of Asterix, Tik-Tok inReturn to Oz, a Goblin inLabyrinth,Big Mac and other characters inTUGS, Thadius Vent's soothsayer Goodtooth inOscar's Orchestra, Melchoir in the English dubbed version of theLapitch the Little Shoemaker TV series, Roly the Pineapple in the English version ofThe Fruities and UrSu the Dying Master and UrZah the Ritual-Guardian inThe Dark Crystal as well as additional characters in two video gamesThe Feeble Files andViking: Battle for Asgard. He also provided the voice for Captain Orion inStar Fleet, the English version of the 1980s Japanese puppet seriesX-Bomber.
He also narratedFair Ground!,Timewatch,People's Century andDark Towers forBBC, dubbed voices in many anime films such asRoujin Z,Cyber City Oedo 808 andDominion: Tank Police and has done voices for several audiobooks and radio stations.
In 1996, he was the narrator for the Channel 4 documentary series,Black Box. The series primarily concentrated on commercial aviation accidents, and the investigations related to them.
Barrett also worked as part of an ADR Loop Group onAardman's animated filmFlushed Away, a voice director onLapitch the Little Shoemaker and a dialogue director onThe Fruities. He has also narrated episodes of the BBC TV seriesPeople's Century andDancing in the Street, as well as a number of BBC nature documentaries in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2011, he voiced Andre of Astora, Petrus of Thorolund and Ingward inDark Souls. He returned to voice Darkdiver Grandahl inDark Souls II, and later reprised his role as Andre of Astora inDark Souls III, as well as voicing Holy Knight Hodrick. In 2017, he voiced the Titan Azurda inXenoblade Chronicles 2 and in 2018, reprised the role forXenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country.
He has voiced the first eight books of Mick Herron's "Slough House" series about Jackson Lamb's team.
In 1985, the rock bandThe Smiths used a still of Barrett as a teenager in the 1958 filmDunkirk for the sleeve of their hit singleHow Soon Is Now?[4][5]
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