Jack May
Acting
Born 1922-04-23
Died 1997-09-19
Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
105 credits
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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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Filmography
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An Age of Kings
Doctor Who
The Avengers
The Wednesday Play
Van der Valk
All Creatures Great and Small
No Hiding Place
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Sunday Night Theatre
Danger Man
Jeeves and Wooster
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
UFO
Count Duckula
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Out of the Unknown
The Main Chance
Festival
Espionage
Poldark
Richard the Lionheart
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mark Saber
Shoestring
Detective
Budgie
Brief Encounter
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Bounty
The Agatha Christie Hour
Target
Adam Adamant Lives!
A Night to Remember
The Man Who Would Be King
Big Muzzy
Black and Blue
The Ten Commandments
The Protectors
A Horseman Riding By
The Spread of the Eagle
Bulman
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
A for Andromeda
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Away from It All
Pride and Prejudice
You Can't Win
How I Won the War
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Cat Girl
The Blue Lamp
The Doctor and the Devils
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Trog
Two-Way Stretch
The Return of the Soldier
Escape
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
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