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Seán Barrett (actor)

Seán Justin Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is an English actor and voice over artist.

Career

Television and film appearances

Barrett began his career as a child actor, appearing on BBC children's television and in films such as Bang! You're Dead, A Cry from the Streets, War and Peace, The Genie and Four Sided Triangle.

Years later he made many appearances in television and films including ITV 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 and Theatre 625.

Voice actor and narrator

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 of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, Tik-Tok in Return to Oz, a Goblin in Labyrinth, Big Mac and other characters in TUGS, Thadius Vent's soothsayer Goodtooth in Oscar's Orchestra, Melchoir in the English dubbed version of the Lapitch the Little Shoemaker TV series, Roly the Pineapple in the English version of The Fruities and UrSu the Dying Master and UrZah the Ritual-Guardian in The Dark Crystal as well as additional characters in two video games The Feeble Files and Viking: Battle for Asgard. He also provided the voice for Captain Orion in Star Fleet, the English version of the 1980s Japanese puppet series X-Bomber.

He also narrated Fair Ground!, Timewatch, People's Century and Dark Towers for BBC, dubbed voices in many anime films such as Roujin Z, Cyber City Oedo 808 and Dominion: 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 on Aardman's animated film Flushed Away, a voice director on Lapitch the Little Shoemaker and a dialogue director on The Fruities. He has also narrated episodes of the BBC TV series People's Century and Dancing 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 in Dark Souls. He returned to voice Darkdiver Grandahl in Dark Souls II, and later reprised his role as Andre of Astora in Dark Souls III, as well as voicing Holy Knight Hodrick. In 2017, he voiced the Titan Azurda in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and in 2018, reprised the role for Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country.

Record sleeve

In 1985, the rock band The Smiths used a still of Barrett as a teenager in the 1958 film Dunkirk for the sleeve of their hit single How Soon Is Now?

Filmography

Film

Four Sided Triangle (1953) – Young Robin
The Genie (1953) -
Game of Danger (1954) – Willy
Escapade (1955) – Warren
War and Peace (1956) – Petya Rostov
Dunkirk (1958) – Frankie
A Cry from the Streets (1958) – Don
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – Able Seaman Brown
Sons and Lovers (1960) – Arthur Morel
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) – Junior British Officer
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968) – Radio Man (uncredited)
Great Catherine (1968) – Andrei Strelkin (uncredited)
Hell Boats (1970) – Sub. Lt. Hendrickson, R.N.V.R.
The Zoo Robbery (1973) – Watson
Robin Hood Junior (1975) – Sergeant
The Dark Crystal (1982) – UrSu the Dying Master, UrZah the Ritual-Guardian (voices)
Return to Oz (1985) – Tik-Tok (voice)
Labyrinth (1986) – Goblin (voice)
Beneath Still Waters (2005) – Additional voices (English and Spanish dub)
Renaissance (2006) – Naghib (voice)

Television

The Twelfth Brother (1952) – Benjamin
The Man in Armour (1952) – Ian Rowland
Stranger in the House (1953) – Peter Benfield
Thames Tug (1953) – Jimmy Spurgeon
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1956) – Richard Miller, Jimmy Sheelan
Rheingold Theatre (1953–1956) – Tony Belfont, Timothy Mulligan, Brian
The Coelacanth (1957) – Nicko
Johnnie's Night Out (1954) – Johnnie O'Hanlon
The Secret Way (1954) – John
The Scarlet Eagle (1954) – Captain Giles
The Adventures of the Big Man (1956) – Tom Lomas
Flash (1956) – Joe Harvey
Sword of Freedom (1958) – Brunetto
The Mad O'Haras (1958) – Desmond Burke
ITV Play of the Week (1959) – Ordinary seaman Frank Conway, Paul Legrand
The Flying Doctor (1959) – Malcolm Parker
Armchair Theatre (1959–1962) – Ralph, Clifford Ross
Emergency Ward 10 (1960) – Martin Cole
Paul of Tarsus (1960) – Timothy
The Terrorists (1961) – 2nd Lt. Adams
ITV Television Playhouse (1962) – Arthur
Z-Cars (1962–1965) – Ashworth, Alan Guest, Arthur Carron
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963) – Michael
Drama 61-67 (1963) – Mark
Moonstrike (1963) – Paul de Montlucon
The Sullavan Brothers (1964) – Tony
Redcap (1964) – Private Kierney
Theatre 625 (1964–1968) – Albino, Capt. Dakers
The Flying Swan (1965) – John Grafton
The Wednesday Play (1966) – Gus
Softly, Softly (1967) – Jamie Gosse
Look and Read (1967) – Will Kent
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967–1971) – Danny, Mike
Mighty Jack (1968) – Father, Interrogator (voices, English)
BBC Play of the Month (1972) – Temple
2nd House (1974) – Steven in Grace
The Unbroken Arrow (1976) –
Tales of the Unexpected (1981) – Hijack
Look and Read: Dark Towers (1981) – Narrator
Star Fleet (1982) – Captain Orion (voice)
Look and Read: Through The Dragon's Eye (1989) – Gorwen the Dragon (voice)
TUGS (1989) – Big Mac, Hercules, Captain Zero, Zebedee, Izzy Gomez, Fire Chief, Sea Rogue, and Blair (voice)
Father Ted (1996) – Father Fitzgerald

Animation

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) – Asterix, Caius Tiddlius, Fulliautomatix, Roman Ghost, Cylindric, Mannikinpix, Gladiator Trainer, Jailer
Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) – Additional voices
The Fruities (1990) – Roly
Oscar's Orchestra (1994) – Goodtooth
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker (2000) – Melchoir
Spheriks (2002) – Additional voices
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006) – Le Sage Yadoa
A Fox's Tale (2008) – Doc