Alisdair Simpson
Alisdair Simpson (born 1969) is a British actor, voice-over artist and narrator. He has a distinctive, masculine voice, making him one of the most popular and recognisable narrators of documentaries on television. He appeared as Ser Donnel Waynward, the Knight of the Bloody Gate in Series Four of Game of Thrones and between 2014 and 2016 he was Chapman Carter in War Horse at The New London Theatre. He was the voice of Richard in the BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated The Bigger Picture a short animation film directed by Daisy Jacobs. His most recent narration work  includes Egypt's Unexplained Files for Discovery, 4 series of The Real Story of.. and Hitler's Circle of Evil for WMR along with Operation Goldrush for the BBC and Wonders of the Moon for BBC Worldwide. He has narrated over 250 documentaries including "", "Lost Land of the Jaguar", "Expedition Borneo", "Operation Iceberg", "Doctors in the Death Zone", "The Somme – From Defeat to Victory" for the BBC. Other programmes for WMR broadcast on the Yesterday include: "Nazi Hunters", "Nazi Collaborators", "Secret War", "Great Crimes and Trials", "Black Ops', Ancient Black Ops, Secrets of the Bible, Raiders of the Lost Past  & Manhunt. Biography and professional career. Alisdair went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 1995. His professional stage debut was at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in "Tartuffe" by Molière, and has gone on to work at Stratford and London in "The White Devil", "Troilus and Cressida" and "Three Hours after Marriage" (1996/97) for the RSC. He was the King of France in Yukio Ninagawa's 1999/2000 production of "King Lear" in Tokyo, London and Stratford. He was Captain Horster in Trevor Nunn's 1997 production of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" at the National Theatre  and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. He was Achilles in "Troilus and Cressida" for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in 2003. He has also appeared at Watermill Theatre in the play "Neville's Island", on tour in Stephen Daldry's "An Inspector Calls" and in "The Years Between" at the Royal in Northampton. In 2008 he appeared at the Young Vic in an opera based on David Lynch's "Lost Highway". From 2014-2016 he played Chapman Carter in War Horse at The New London Theatre. On television he has appeared in "Game of Thrones", "No Bananas , Soldier Soldier", "Men Behaving Badly", "Teachers", "Spooks", "The Worst Week of My Life", "Broken News", "The Bill", "Casualty", "Dream Team", etc. Narrator. Alisdair has narrated over 250 documentaries and he has voiced commercial campaigns for Ford, BMW, American Airlines, British Airways, Talk Sport, and many others. He has voiced audio guides for the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York and various corporate pieces. Other works. In 1996 Alisdair appeared in the John Webster play "The White Devil" produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.