Colin Jeavons
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| Colin Jeavons | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 October 1929 Newport, Monmouthshire |
| Occupation | actor |
Colin Jeavons is a Welsh character actor, born 20 October 1929 in Newport, Monmouthshire.
[edit] Career
He is known for his part as Max Quordlepleen in the BBC television serial of Douglas Adams' space opera comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from Waterhouse's novel Billy Liar. Also he was the narrator to the series "Barnaby the Bear" and sang the theme tune. Barnaby is very fondly remembered by British people of a certain generation.
His most critically acclaimed role was as the neglected and abused child, Donald, in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (1979). He also has featured prominently in the 1990 dramatisation for television of House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, as Tim Stamper, Tory Whip and ally of Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart. The character returned - promoted initially to Chief Whip, then to Party Chairman - in the sequel, To Play the King.
Jeavons' general acting credits are numerous and varied: he is known as a regular character actor on television classical adaptations; he hosted Play School for a time; and was both Moriarty in The Baker Street Boys (1982), and Inspector Lestrade in the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Jeremy Brett as Holmes). In 1985, he played Adolf Hitler in Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil. He also appeared in Doctor Who in the 1966 story The Underwater Menace and the 1981 spin-off K-9 and Company; as Briggs, the lawyer who halts the marriage between Jane and Rochester in the 1983 BBC version of Jane Eyre, twice in cult TV series The Avengers and once in Adam Adamant Lives!.
