Acting

Roger Blake

Born

1957-12-21 (68)

Place of birth

Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

Roger Donald Blake (born 21 December 1957) is a Welsh actor, impressionist and entertainer. He is best known for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Spitting Image and The Big Impression and Noël Coward in television commercials, and narrated Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, as well as the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1984 to 1989. Blake had a steady career, he made appearances in British television sitcoms such as Blackadder II, Only Fools and Horses and Dear John. In 1990, he joined the cast of Spitting Image, where he became well known as the voice of Prince Philip, he also voiced other characters including George H. W. Bush, Robert Maxwell, John Prescott and Arnold Sc…

Known for

Red Dwarf poster
8.1

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

Red Dwarf

1988

Hustle poster
7.7

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Hustle

2004

Blackadder poster
8.0

Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.

Blackadder

1983

Flushed Away poster
6.3

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

Flushed Away

2006

Only Fools and Horses poster
8.1

Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.

Only Fools and Horses

1981

Patriot Games poster
6.7

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Patriot Games

1992

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Patriot Games poster
6.7

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Patriot Games

1992

Spitting Image: From F.A to Fair Play poster
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Discover the secrets of the pre-match talks between Venables and the England team. Find out what the Queen really said to the German line-up. See how Graham Taylor would have lost it. Enjoy expert commentary from Bjork, Jeremy Clarkson and Keith Richards, Learn and sing along to the Politically Correct Terrace Chants. See a sneak preview of Tarantino's most violent film yet - "Bastards in Short Pants". Share the most secret thoughts of Jean-Paul Gaultier on the romantic side of football. And Not Much More! Except the football. Oh yes.

Spitting Image: From F.A to Fair Play

1996

Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups poster
7.7

Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf.

Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups

1994

Buddy's Song poster
5.7

Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...

Buddy's Song

1991

Thatcherworld poster
NR

The Jenkins family are selected by a computer to be the first visitors of the nation’s newest and most exciting theme park - Thatcherworld.

Thatcherworld

1993

Spitting Image: Election Special '92 poster
NR

The classic election special from 1992. Will the grey man or the windbag be the one to ruin Britain?

Spitting Image: Election Special '92

1992

The Fix poster
3.8

The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.

The Fix

1997

Roy Chubby Brown: Exposed poster
NR

TV host, Melvyn Shag catches up with entertainment giant Roy Chubby Brown to take him back to his roots. Chubby's story starts in the north east of England in the hostile and deprived region of Grangetown, where he was brought up by his mum.. an odd way to give birth. Visit Grangetown Secondary, the school Chubby left with no qualifications, except an Open University Phd in Gynaecology, and some french he learnt from the Head Girl. Re-live that moment when Chubby meets the girl of his dreams.. and that other moment when he later divorces her. See Chubby uncovered for the comic colossus, the genius, the legend in his own lifetime that he is, in 'Roy Chubby Brown - Exposed'.

Roy Chubby Brown: Exposed

1993

Series credits

Red Dwarf poster
8.1

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

Red Dwarf

1988

Hustle poster
7.7

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Hustle

2004

Blackadder poster
8.0

Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.

Blackadder

1983

Only Fools and Horses poster
8.1

Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.

Only Fools and Horses

1981

London's Burning poster
7.7

London's Burning is a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.

London's Burning

1986

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NR

Identical twin sisters Hannah and Helen move to their family's new Home Farm B&B surrounded by animals, delighting the animal-loving girls.

Home Farm Twins

1999

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story poster
6.8

Wealthy developer Jack Robinson is stunned when a gigantic human skeleton is discovered on his building site. According to a mysterious woman, it is part of a curse that has dogged his family for years. To lift the jinx placed upon him, Jack will need to visit the land in the sky - by climbing up a very tall beanstalk.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

2001

Class Act poster
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Class Act is a British comedy-drama series produced by Verity Lambert, and starring Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe. The series ran for two seasons of seven episodes each. Broadcast on ITV1, the first premiered on 7 April 1994, until 19 May. The second ran from 7 September to 19 October 1995. Desperate times call for desperate measures when aristocratic Kate Swift's rich husband disappears and she is forced to give up her champagne lifestyle.

Class Act

1994

Tittybangbang poster
NR

Tittybangbang is a female-led television sketch comedy, performed by Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen, which ran between 2005 and 2007 on BBC Three. The show was largely written by Bob Mortimer and Jill Parker and produced by their company Pett Productions.

Tittybangbang

2005

A Certain Justice poster
6.7

Inspector Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a top flight lawyer with an abrasive reputation and turbulent private life.

A Certain Justice

1998

Mr Don & Mr George poster
6.2

Mr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely. Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty played two unrelated characters who happened to share a surname. Hunter and Docherty wrote the series and it was made by their production company, Absolutely Productions. The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay. A single six-episode series was made, and was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993. The series was released on VHS in the 1990s. A single VHS tape was released with all six episodes on as well. This tape stated that it had the entire first series on one tape, however no further series were made.

Mr Don & Mr George

1993

All Along the Watchtower poster
7.5

All Along the Watchtower is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999 about an RAF base in Scotland. It was written by Pete Sinclair and Trevelyan Evans.

All Along the Watchtower

1999