# Simon Greenall

Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor, presenter and voice artist. Among his television appearances are as the Caretaker on Trapped!, Richard in Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and as Michael the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programs and films. He also voices Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts franchise, the twins in the Shaun the Sheep films, and Aleksandr Orlov and Sergei the meerkats in the comparethemarket.com adverts.

## Early life

Greenall was born on 3 January 1958 in Longtown, Cumberland. He attended the Manchester School of Theatre at the same time as Steve Coogan, who was two years below him and would later become a repeat collaborator.

## Career

Greenall has appeared in a number of television shows, shorts, movies, and video games. Earlier roles include as policemen in Life Without George (1987), One Foot in the Grave (1990), and Between the Lines (1993); as various characters in Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round (1998), Pond Life (2000), and Monkey Dust (2003); and as the voices of Mr. Bump, Mr. Grumpy, and Mr. Happy in The Mr. Men Show (2008). He voiced Murgo in the Fable video game franchise and replaced Cam Clarke in Final Fantasy XIV as the voice of Lord Lolorito, in addition to his regular voiceover role the dragon Nidhogg. In the 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters", he played Mr. Skinner.
Greenall has also starred on the BBC Radio shows On the Blog, Missing Hancocks, and The Simon Day Show. He won Celebrity Mastermind in 2015 with the specialist subject D-Day landings and was credited as co-executive producer of the 2011 film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin. He currently voices Aleksandr Orlov the meerkat in the comparethemarket.com adverts.
When Grant Bovey was training for a BBC charity boxing match against Ricky Gervais, Greenall was one of Bovey's sparring partners. In 1995, he won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards honour in the TV - Light Entertainment category along with Harry Enfield, Geoffrey Perkins, Harry Thompson, Paul Whitehouse, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman and Kay Stonham for Harry Enfield's Television Programme. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Cumbria.

## Selected works
### Television

| Year(s) | Title | Role | No. of episodes |
| 1993 | Newman and Baddiel in Pieces | Various characters | 8 |
| 1994–1997 | Harry Enfield and Chums | Gas Man, Man at Political Event | 2 |
| 1997–1998 | Armstrong and Miller | Various roles | 13 |
| 1997–1998 | Alas Smith & Jones | Various roles | 12 |
| 1997–2002 | I'm Alan Partridge | Michael, Robert Moon | 12 |
| 1998 | Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round | Various roles | 1 |
| 1998 | Barking | Various roles | 5 |
| 1998 | Big Train | Various roles | 2 |
| 1999 | Boyz Unlimited | Benny Van Hoere | 3 |
| 1999–2000 | Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married | Richard | 16 |
| 2000 | Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show | Various roles | 12 |
| 2000 | Kiss Me Kate | Colin | 1 |
| 2001 | Time Gentlemen Please | Arnold Poncett | 1 |
| 2001 | World of Pub | Various roles | 6 |
| 2001 | The Armando Iannucci Shows | Various roles | 1 |
| 2003 | Monkey Dust | Various roles | 18 |
| 2003 | Fortysomething | Ashley Ramp | 1 |
| 2003–2005 | Trevor's World of Sport | VDK, Lance | 3 |
| 2004 | Swiss Toni | Peter Gellward | 1 |
| 2004 | Doc Martin | Philip Rowe | 1 |
| 2005 | Funland | Ken Cryer | 2 |
| 2005 | Don't Watch That, Watch This | Various roles | 2 |
| 2005 | Bromwell High | Martin Jackson, Iqbal Kandallah, Additional voices | 13 |
| 2006 | Doctor Who | Mr. Skinner | 1 |
| 2006 | Lead Balloon | Adam Greene | 1 |
| 2006 | Popetown | Cardinal Three (voice) | 10 |
| 2006–2008 | Star Stories | Narrator (voice) | 7 |
| 2007 | Saxondale | Malcolm | 1 |
| 2007–2010 | Trapped! | Caretaker | 52 |
| 2008 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl | Ian Farringdon | 1 |
| 2008 | The Wrong Door | Various roles | 6 |
| 2008 | No Heroics | Isobar | 1 |
| 2009 | Horne & Corden | Various roles | 1 |
| 2009–2011 | The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson | Various roles | 19 |
| 2010 | Life of Riley | Mr. Smith | 1 |
| 2010–2011 | Pete Versus Life | Colin King | 11 |
| 2010–2012 | Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul | Various roles | 9 |
| 2010–2016 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Caller (voice) | 12 |
| 2010–2017 | Octonauts | Captain Barnacles | 122 |
| 2011 | PhoneShop | The Greeter | 1 |
| 2011 | Comedy Blaps | Various characters | 3 |
| 2012 | Spy | Quiz host | 1 |
| 2013 | Common Ground | Peter the Polish Park Keeper | 2 |
| 2013 | It's Kevin | Various roles | 2 |
| 2013 | Drifters | Davide | 1 |
| 2013 | Hebburn | Bob Muirfield | 2 |
| 2014 | Inspector George Gently | Peter Turner | 1 |
| 2014 | W1A | Nigel Trescott | 1 |
| 2014 | Cardinal Burns | Various roles | 3 |
| 2014 | Fried | Derek | 1 |
| 2015 | The Keith Lemon Sketch Show | Narrator | 1 |
| 2015 | Car Share | Dave Thompson (voice) | 1 |
| 2015 | Hoff the Record | Radovan Merkadic | 1 |
| 2016 | Plebs | Announcer | 1 |
| 2015–2016 | Newzoids | Various roles | 12 |
| 2016 | The Windsors | Various roles | 2 |
| 2017 | Benidorm | Neville | 5 |
| 2017 | Ill Behaviour | Liam's Dad | 2 |
| 2017–2020 | The Other One | Colin | 3 |
| 2020 | Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom | Various roles | 20 |
| 2020 | Mister Winner | Racing Commentator | 1 |
| 2022 | Meet the Richardsons | Simon Greenall | 1 |
| 2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | Coroner | 1 |

### Film

| Year(s) | Title | Role |
| 1999 | Tube Tales | Business Man (segment: "Mouth") |
| 2002 | My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 | Father in Church |
| 2003 | Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge | Roy from Caistor-St-Edmonds (voice) |
| 2004 | Wimbledon | Chauffeur |
| 2007 | Biffovision | BW |
| 2010 | D.O.A | Priest |
| 2011 | Holy Flying Circus | Barry Atkins, Pub Landlord |
| 2011 | Pythagasaurus | Pythagasaurus (voice) |
| 2012 | Acts of Godfrey | DCI Stevens |
| 2012 | The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas | Various roles (voices) |
| 2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Michael |
| 2014 | Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s | Various roles |
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Twins (voices) |
| 2018 | Early Man | Eemak, Thongo (voices) |
| 2021 | Octonauts: The Ring of Fire | Captain Barnacles (voice) |
| 2021 | Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas | Additional voices |
| 2021 | Hilda and the Mountain King | Additional voices |
| 2022 | The Lovebox in Your Living Room | Various roles |

### Video games

| Year(s) | Title | Role |
| 1997 | Tomb Raider II | Claudio, Fabio, Brother Chan Barkhang (voices) |
| 2000 | Shogun: Total War | |
| 2000 | Team Buddies | |
| 2000 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition | |
| 2001 | Original War | |
| 2002 | Hard Hitter Tennis | Bob Conner (voice) |
| 2004 | Future Tactics: The Uprising | |
| 2004 | Fable | Fisherman (voice) |
| 2004 | Dragon Quest VIII | Additional voices |
| 2005 | Ape Escape 3 | Monkey Blue (voice) |
| 2005 | MediEvil: Resurrection | Dirk Steadfast, Help Gargoyles, Trapped Villager (voices) |
| 2005 | Battalion Wars | Kommandant Ubel |
| 2005 | Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
| 2006 | Medieval II: Total War | |
| 2007 | Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors | |
| 2007 | Battalion Wars 2 | Kommandant Ubel (voice) |
| 2008 | Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures | |
| 2008 | Fable II | |
| 2009 | Killzone 2 | Additional Helghast Voices (voice) |
| 2009 | BattleForge | |
| 2009 | Battlefield Heroes | Royals and Nationals (voices) |
| 2009 | Battlefield 1943 | Newscaster |
| 2009 | Risen | Luis, Adan, Dargel |
| 2010 | Final Fantasy XIV | Lolorito |
| 2010 | Fable III | |
| 2011 | Stronghold 3 | |
| 2013 | Puppeteer | Captain Gaff (voice) |
| 2014 | LittleBigPlanet 3 | Zom-Zom the Far Out (voice) |
| 2015 | Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward | Lolorito, Nidhogg (voices) |
| 2017 | Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood | Lolorito (voice) |
| 2018 | Forza Horizon 4 | Hans Liebold (voice) |
| 2019 | Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions | Hans Liebold (voice) |
| 2020 | Sackboy: A Big Adventure | Zom Zom (voice) |