Tim Whitnall

Timothy Charles "Tim" Whitnall (born 27 June 1961 in Canvey Island, Essex) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and actor known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series Mike and Angelo and narrating the BBC children's TV programme Teletubbies (UK and Canada). In the US, the USA narrator was Rolf Saxon. He currently co-provides voices in Thomas & Friends.

Career
He has starred in many West End musicals including Elvis, Grease, The Rocky Horror Show, and Good Rockin' Tonight.

He worked extensively in film, TV, and radio and presented (and wrote for) the BBC School's series, "The Music Arcade" (with Lucie Skeaping), "Into Music", "Time and Tune", "Music Workshop", and "Let's Sing". He has provided many voice-overs and vocals for TV commercials, animations, and jingles.

Whitnall's theatre play The Sociable Plover, first performed at Old Red Lion Theatre in 2005, was made into a feature film by Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films (re-titled as The Hide) and received its UK première on Film4 in February 2009. Following its screen release at the ICA Cinema, London, the film was released on DVD in January 2010. For this work, Whitnall was nominated for Best First Feature Length Screenplay category in the 2010 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Awards.

Whitnall's stage-play Morecambe – a tribute to the late comedian Eric Morecambe – won a Fringe First Award for 'innovation and excellence in new writing' at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show opened at London's Duchess Theatre the following December and toured the UK through 2010. The piece was nominated in two separate categories in the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards and won the 'Best Entertainment' category.

In 2012, BBC Four screened Whitnall's 90-minute drama Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story, which examined and celebrated the life of Kenny Everett. It was directed by James Strong, produced by Paul Frift and starred Oliver Lansley and Katherine Kelly. For it, Whitnall won the Breakthrough Talent Award in the 2013 BAFTA Television Craft Awards.

During 2014, Whitnall joined the cast of the CGI version of the British TV series Thomas & Friends, and has provided the voices of the characters Timothy and Reg (in the UK/US), and since 2015–6, Mike, Jerome and Oliver the Excavator in the UK/US.

Personal life
He lives in Richmond, Surrey with his partner, Anna Murphy, with whom he has a production company, Feather Productions Ltd.

Filmography

Actor

Film
 Year  Title  Role  Notes 1996  Famous Fred  Additional Vocals  2000  Teletubbies: Christmas in the Snow  Narrator  Direct-to-video 2008  Like Other People Do  Rich Man  Short2010  Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island  EdisonKing OberonSnow BeastBitten  Devil's Playground  News Anchor  2014 Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave  Timothy and Reg  UK/US voice; Direct-to-video2015  Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins  Jerome  UK/US voice; Direct-to-video Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure  Mike and Oliver the Excavator  UK/US voice 2016  Thomas & Friends: The Great Race  Timothy and Mike  UK/US voice

Video games
 Year  Title  Role2000  Play with the Teletubbies  Narrator The World Is Not Enough (Nintendo 64 and PlayStation)  Davidov

Screenwriter

Film
 Year  Title  Role  Notes 2008  The Hide  "The Sociable Plover" 

Television
 Year  Title  Role(s)  Notes 1985–1986  And There's More   1989  The Bill  Rodgers  Episode: "Found Offending" 1990  Bergerac  Desk Constable  Episode: "A True Detective" 1989–2000  Mike and Angelo  Angelo  1997–2001  Teletubbies  Narrator  (UK version) 2005-2009  Fifi and the Flowertots  Aunt Tulip, Stingo  Recurring cast 2006–2009  Underground Ernie  Hammersmith, Jubilee, Paris, and Osaka    Voice over 2007  The Beeps  Sleepy Beep  2007–2010  Roary the Racing Car  Plugger, Mr. Carburettor, Farmer Green, Farmer Will and Dinkie  UK/US Voice cast 2008–2009  The Mr. Men Show  Mr. Lazy and Mr. Nervous  (UK version) 2010  Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story   TV movie 2012–2015  Tree Fu Tom  Zigzoo, Stink, Squirmtum, Chezz, and Rickety McGluman  Main cast 2013  Agatha Christie's Marple   Episode: "Greenshaw's Folly" 2014–present  Thomas & Friends  Timothy (UK/US), Reg (UK/US), Mike (UK/US), Jerome (UK/US), Oliver the Excavator (UK/US) and The Deputy Minister (UK/US)  Recurring role; UK/US 2015  Jake and the Never Land Pirates  Captain Ander  Recurring cast

Awards and nominations
 2009  "The Scotsman" Fringe First Award  Innovation and outstanding new writing  Morecambe   2010  Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award  Best First Feature-Length Film Screenplay  The Hide   2013  British Academy Television Craft Award  Breakthrough Talent Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story   2013  Broadcasting Press Guild Award  Best Single DramaShared with Paul Frift and James Strong  

References

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Category:Actors from Essex
Category:English television actors
Category:English voice actors
Category:Teletubbies
Category:Living people
Category:1961 births