Kerry Shale

**Kerry Shale** (born 4 June 1952) is a Canadian actor, narrator and writer.

His BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama _The Kubrick Test_ was broadcast in 2020. He is the co-host of _Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan_, a podcast about Bob Dylan.

## Early life

Kerry Shale was born on 4 June 1952.

### Film

|Year|Title|Role(s)|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1983|_Yentl_|Yeshiva Student||
|1985|_Runaway Train_|Dubbing|Voice, Uncredited|
|1986|_Labyrinth_|Goblin|Voice|
|_Little Shop of Horrors_|Her Assistant|||
|1987|_The Living Daylights_|Voice of Necros||
|_Superman IV: The Quest for Peace_|MBC Newscaster|||
|1989|_Asterix and the Big Fight_|Unhygienix|Voice|
|1996|_Jude_|Showman||
|1997|_Welcome to Sarajevo_|UN Convoy Official||
|1998|_B. Monkey_|Texan||
|_The Misadventures of Margaret_|Librarian|||
|1999|_RKO 281_|Bernard Herrmann||
|2000|_102 Dalmatians_|Le Pelt's assistant||
|2002|_Max_|Dr. Levi||
|2003|_Code 46_|Clinic Doctor||
|2005|_The Jacket_|Prosecutor||
|_Gideon's Daughter_|Badalamenti|||
|_The Wedding Date_|Clipboard Manager|Uncredited||
|2006|_Manga Latina: Killer on the Loose_|Victor La Cruz||
|2008|_Genova_|Stephen||
|2009|_Universal Soldier: Regeneration_|Dr. Robert Colin||
|_Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails_|Thomas and Spencer|_Original **UK** voice_||
|Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt|**_US** voice_|||
|2010|_Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue_|Diesel **(_UK_)**<hr />Henry, Gordon, James, Dash, Harold, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt **(_US_)**|Voice; direct-to-DVD|
|_London Boulevard_|Lawyer|Uncredited||
|2011|_Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels_|Diesel **(_UK_)**<hr />Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt **(_US_)**<hr />'Arry, Bert and Sidney|Voice; direct-to-DVD|
|_Arthur Christmas_|UNFITA OPS|Voice||
|2012|_Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery_|Diesel **(_UK_)**<hr />Henry, James, Kevin, Sir Topham Hatt, Mr. Percival and some workmen **(_US_)**|Voice; direct-to-DVD|
|_A Fantastic Fear of Everything_|Harvey Humphries|||
|_Tad, the Lost Explorer_|Tad Stones and Kopponen|Voice||
|2013|_Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway_|Diesel **(_UK_)**<hr />Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt **(_US_)**|Voice; direct-to-DVD|
|_The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared_|Harry S. Truman|||
|_Hello Carter_|Tara Evans|||
|2014|_Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave_|Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt|US voice; direct-to-DVD|
|_Blood Moon_|Father Domonic|||
|2015|_Moonwalkers_|Mr. White||
|_Narcopolis_|Martin Fox|||
|_The Cannibal in the Jungle_|Peter Kalas|||
|_Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins_|Henry and Gordon|US voice; direct-to-DVD||
|_Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure_|Henry, Gordon and Kevin|||
|2016|_Thomas & Friends: The Great Race_|Henry, Gordon and Kevin **(_US_)**<hr />Diesel and Scruff|Voice; direct-to-DVD|
|2017|_Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor_|Henry and Gordon **(_US_)**<hr />Kevin and the Troublesome Trucks||
|_Final Portrait_|Art Dealer|||
|_The Trip to Spain_|Matt|||
|2018|_Show Dogs_|Klaus Hochauser||
|_Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!_|Henry, Gordon, Harold and Mr. Percival **(_US_)**<hr />Diesel and Beau|Voice; direct-to-DVD||
|2019|_Angel Has Fallen_|Admiral Paul Sebring||
|2021|_Wrath of Man_|Doctor||

### Television

|Years|Title|Role(s)|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1981|_Sorry!_|Gavin|Episode: "The Godfather"|
|1983|_The Comic Strip Presents..._|Willy|Episode: "Five Go Mad on Mescalin"|
|1984|_Freud_|Otto Rank|Miniseries|
|1988|_The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_|Mr. Beaver|6 episodes|
|1992|_A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia_|American Reporter|TV movie|
|1993|_Cracker_|Scene of Crime Expert|Episode: _The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1_|
|1994|_The Adventure of the Red Circle_|Leverton, a Pinkerton (detective agency) detective|Part of the Granada Television series Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series), originally broadcast on ITV on 28 March 1994|
|1994–96|_Budgie the Little Helicopter_|Chuck||
|1996-98|_Dennis the Menace_|Gnasher|Voice|
|2002|_Wilf the Witch's Dog_|||
|2007|_Holby City_|Dr. Costello|Episode: _ Paranoid Android_|
|_Not Going Out_|Toby|||
|2007-10|_Roary the Racing Car_|Big Chris, Tin Top, Big Christine (***US***)|Voices|
|2010-21|_Thomas & Friends_|Henry, Gordon, James, Dash, Scruff, Max, Farmer Trotter, Mr. Percival and Sir Lowham Hatt **(_US_)**<hr />Diesel (***US***; 2015 onwards / ***UK***), Kevin (***UK***; "Hasty Hannah" only / ***US***), 'Arry and the Troublesome Trucks|Succeeded by Rob Rackstraw as James **(_US_)**, Michael Brandon and Martin Sherman as Diesel and Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt|
|2010|_The Trip_|Steve's US Agent|2 episodes|
|2011|_Doctor Who_|Doctor Renfrew|Episode: _Day of the Moon_|
|2011–19|_The Amazing World of Gumball_|Laurence "Larry" Needlemeyer, Bobert, Leslie, Various Characters||
|2022|_The Creature Cases_||Voice|
|_The Sandman_|Nimrod|3 episodes||
|_Suspicion_|Arnold Myerson|||
|_Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators_|Joe Venice|||
|2023|_Best Interests_|Dr. David Pankerman|1 episode|

### Video games

|Year|Title|Role(s)|Source|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2003|_Dog's Life_|Jake, Wayne, Dwayne, additional voices||Writer|
|_Space Channel 5: Part 2_|Fuse|||||
|2004|_Killzone_|ISA Troops||||
|2008|_Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds_|Fernando, Shigeki Maruyama, Maru-Chan, Clark||||
|2010|_Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip_|Toshi and Xavier||||
|2011|_LittleBigPlanet 2_|Lex Luthor||||
|rowspan="4"|2012|_LittleBigPlanet PS Vita_||||
|_Deponia_|Rufus, Cletus, Argus|||||
|_Chaos on Deponia_||||||
|_The Testament of Sherlock Holmes_|Sherlock Holmes|||||
|2013|_Lego City Undercover_|Marion Dunby||||
|_Puppeteer_|Ying Yang and General Dragon|||||
|2014|_Transformers Universe_|Derail||||
|_Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments_|Sherlock Holmes|||||
|2015|_Lego Dimensions_|Marion Dunby||||
|2016|_Batman: Arkham VR_|Thug 3||||
|_Steep_|Radio DJ Larry Miller|||||
|2017|_Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2_|Star-Lord||||
|_Xenoblade Chronicles 2_|Cressidus and Perceval|||||
|2018|_Lego The Incredibles_|Additional voices||||
|_Hitman 2_|Carl Ingram|||||
|2019|_Terminator: Resistance_|NPCs||||
|2020|_Serious Sam 4_|Filbert||||
|_Someday You'll Return_|Daniel|||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Kerry Shale
- **years active**: 1978–present