Acting

Nigel Lambert

Born 1944-05-11 · Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK

Nigel Lambert (11 May 1944 – 11 September 2024) was an English voice actor. He is best known for his role as the narrator of the first series of the BBC comedy series Look Around You, as well as Merle Ambrose in the MMORPG Wizard101. Lambert was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex on 11 May 1944. Acting from the age of 12, Lambert began his stage education at Arts Educational Trust School, Piccadilly. After a brief spell at the Italia Conti Stage School, he joined a repertory company in Cork before completing his training at RADA. This was following by working in repertory theatre in Ireland and Northampton, as well as the Royal National Theatre. He then worked in radio and television, as well as being a member of Hatch End Players. He appeared in the 1967 The Avengers episode entitled "The 50,000 pound Breakfast" as the second doctor. Lambert played the role of athlete Ken Sparten in the 1969 SF/horror film Scream and Scream Again, and in more recent years provides the voice of Mr Curry in The Adventures of Paddington Bear television series and also Papa in the Dolmio pasta sauce puppet commercials. He also appeared as Operative Chris Granger in the UFO episode "Computer Affair" and contributed extensively to the magazine partwork Story Teller published by Marshall Cavendish, consisting of a fortnightly magazine and a cassette tape featuring children's stories. Lambert recorded over 50 BBC audiobooks. In 1980, he played the character of Hardin in the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive, in addition to providing the voice of the Priest Triangle in the 2021 episodes War of the Sontarans and Once, Upon Time. He played the computer operative in the first episode of Blake's 7, The Way Back (1978). On 11 September 2024, it was announced that Lambert had died at the age of 80

Acting credits

Where Eagles Dare poster
7.5

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Where Eagles Dare

1968

Scream and Scream Again poster
5.3

A serial killer who drains his victims of blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Scream and Scream Again

1970

Crimetime poster
4.3

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

Crimetime

1996

The Boys in Blue poster
5.5

Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.

The Boys in Blue

1982

Henry VIII poster
6.6

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.

Henry VIII

1979

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? poster
10.0

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby, with an attention to detail closer to obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?

1965

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive poster
7.0

Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

1980

Unreported Incident poster
NR

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.

Unreported Incident

1988

Funny Money poster
7.0

In Las Vegas young Barty Nicholls inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, famed as a credit card king who she needs as a partner in her credit card swindles. Thrown out of a West End hotel for stealing cards, the pair are soon muscled back in by two heavy Minders to sexually perform at a Mob party in front of Mr. Big. Ben and Cass check out with suit cases of Mafia cash then the real funny money begins to flow and the chase is on.

Funny Money

1982

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Calcium

2001

Space Station Milton Keynes poster
NR

'It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues'. Maria is taken to a new foster home in a magical city where she becomes Sunshine, finds a statue that talks to her and meets a Boy. She lives happily in a world of fantasy and imagination until one day ...

Space Station Milton Keynes

1985

Steps Back poster
NR

When Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they find that the picture is not quite as he painted.

Steps Back

1973

No artwork available
NR

At Dublin Airport it's ten minutes to take-off, and Josie is determined to go to London. Her departure is delayed and this gives her irate husband and a nervous priest time to try to make her change her mind.

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

1965