Martin Jarvis

**Martin Jarvis**, OBE (born 4 August 1941) is an English actor and voice actor. After a varied career in film and television, he has become particularly noted for his voice acting for radio and audiobooks. Jarvis's first television appearance was in 1965 in the BBC science fiction series *Doctor Who*, as Hilio, captain of the butterfly-like Menoptra, in *The Web Planet*.[2] (He later appeared in that show then as the scientist Dr. Butler in *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, and as the beleaguered governor of the planet Varos in *Vengeance on Varos* in 1985.) He became a familiar face on television when he played Jon in the BBC's landmark 1967 adaptation of *The Forsyte Saga*, the title role in a BBC serialisation of *Nicholas Nickleby* (1968) and Uriah Heep in the 1974 BBC version of *David Copperfield*, and when he was the male lead in the sitcom *Rings on Their Fingers* (1978–80) with Diane Keen. In 1993, he starred with Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz in a BBC adaptation of *Scarlet and Black*. He also appeared in the 2002 BBC children's miniseries *Bootleg*.

His appearances on American television include such series as *Murder, She Wrote*, *Walker, Texas Ranger*, and more recently *Stargate Atlantis* and *Numb3rs*.

Jarvis was the subject of BBC television's *This Is Your Life* in 1999.

He appeared in ITV 1's *The Bill* in July 2008. In March 2010, it was announced that he would appear in the BBC soap opera *EastEnders* playing journalist Harvey Freeman.[3]

Jarvis appeared in a 2014 episode of *Law & Order: UK* as Eric Chandler, a man arrested and charged with murder. Among his work, Jarvis did the voiceovers for the 2010 BBC series *Just William* and voices the animal characters, as well as Voltaire the wise Weather-Cock, in the 1994 children's television series *Fourways Farm*. He has also voiced various characters in animated series such as *The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy* and *The Life and Times of Juniper Lee*. In the former, he inherited the role of the character Nergal from his *Titanic* co-star David Warner. In 2000, Jarvis voiced John Dread in the TV series *Max Steel*. He has also voiced all the characters in the children's stop-motion animated series *Huxley Pig* and narrated "The Tempest" in *Shakespeare: The Animated Tales*.

Jarvis has also lent his voice to audiobooks of P.G. Wodehouse's works, and has won the Audie Award for these. He is the narrator of the 2011 audiobook of *The Selfish Giant* by Oscar Wilde. Further work in 2011 includes an audiobook of the Wilbur Smith novel *The Leopard Hunts in Darkness*. He has also appeared in *Jubilee*, a *Doctor Who* spin-off audio drama by Big Finish Productions, alongside his wife. In film, Jarvis appeared in Disney's 2012 film *Wreck-It Ralph* as Saitine, one of the video game villains who attends the Bad Anon self-help groups with Ralph (John C. Reilly).

Jarvis has also performed voiceovers for video games, beginning in 2007 as the role of The Chronicler in the *Spyro the Dragon* video game series. He also provided the voice of Admiral Zaal'Koris vas Qwib Qwib in *Mass Effect 2* (2010) and *Mass Effect 3* (2012). Also in 2011, Jarvis also performed a voice-over part for the MMORPG *Star Wars: The Old Republic*. Jarvis also voiced Alfred Pennyworth in the *Batman: Arkham* series of video games. He first voiced the character in the 2011 video game *Batman: Arkham City* and would reprise for the 2013 video game *Batman: Arkham Origins* and the 2014 DC Universe animated movie *Batman: Assault on Arkham*, and the 2015 video game *Batman: Arkham Knight*.[*citation needed*]