David Graham (actor)
| David Graham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 December 1930 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
David Graham (born 30 December 1930) is a British character actor and voice artist. Born in London, after a period in the R.A.F as a Radar Mechanic he trained as an actor in New York but has worked mainly on British television series.
Graham played several characters on Doctor Who, most notably the Daleks in the 1960s stories The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase (where he also provided Mechanoid voices) and The Daleks Master Plan. He also played the barman Charlie in The Gunfighters and foreign time-travel scientist Professor Kerensky in the 1979 story City of Death.
He was also the voices of Parker, Brains, Gordon Tracy, and Kyrano in the original television series of Thunderbirds and its spin-off films Thunderbirds Are GO and Thunderbird 6. He had roles in several other Gerry Anderson productions, including Stingray, Fireball XL5, Four Feather Falls, The Secret Service and Supercar.
Graham appeared in Callan, Timeslip, So Haunt Me, Danger Man, The Saint, Howards' Way, Softly, Softly, Armchair Thriller, Ace of Wands, Justice, The Regiment, The Bill, The Fixer, The Sentimental Agent, Timeslip and The Avengers (in the 1963 episode "Man in the Mirror"). In the "1984" commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh, he played the role of Big Brother.[1]
He has also done puppet voices in two episodes of The Tomorrow People.
He has also done voice roles in anime including the children's TV series Moomin and the film Dominion: Tank Police.
Graham is currently the voice of "Grandpa Pig" in the children's television program Peppa Pig and the voice of Wise Old Elf in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Thunderbirds as Brains / Gordon Tracy / Captain Hanson / Aloysius "Nosey" Parker
- Callan (1974)
- Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom as Wise Old Elf
