Patrick Tull
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Patrick Tull (28 July 1941 - September 23, 2006) was a stage, film, and television actor. Tull was born in Sussex, England and was a long term resident of New York City, United States.
Tull is the only person in the world to have recorded the entire Aubrey-Maturin canon of Patrick O'Brian in complete and unabridged form. His lively dramatization of the characters, especially Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, and his comprehensive command of the dialects and tenor of the novels endeared him to many O’Brian fans. While O’Brian expressed disapproval towards a robust rendition of recorded novels (“To revert to my ideal reader: he would avoid obvious emotion, italics and exclamation marks like the plague - trying to put life into flat prose is as useful as flogging a dead horse”), he noted at the time that he had not listened to any recorded versions of his work.
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[edit] Film and televison work
Tull performed in a number of episodes of well known BBC television series in the 1960s but was never a regular cast member. Among the shows he appeared in were Z-Cars, and its spin-off Softly, Softly, the soap opera Crossroads and the comedy Dad's Army. He also was heard but not seen in an episode of Doctor Who. He also acted in three films. [1].
[edit] Theatre in New York
On Broadway Tull was a founding member of Tony Randall's National Actors' Theatre, and appeared in Shaw's Getting Married. His off-Broadway credits include What the Butler Saw and The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and the critically acclaimed Some Voices at the Greenwich Street Theatre. He has been part of many productions in regional theaters throughout the United States.
Mr. Tull received high praise for his work in the one-man play "The Hero Of The Slocum", based on the Eric Blau’s account of the greatest U.S. maritime disaster of the 20th century.
[edit] Narrator and reader
As well as his work as a reader of the Patrick O'Brian novels, Tull narrated a number of television and documentary films including the seventeen-part series Sea Tales for A&E, some of which are available on DVD. He was also one of the most prolific narrators of recorded books in the United States; featured on 104 productions.
In May 2005, Tull narrated the debut performance of jazz composer and trombonist Ron Westray's Chivalrous Misdemeanors (based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote) with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
