Roy Hudd
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Roy Hudd, OBE (b. May 16, 1936, Croydon, Surrey) is a very tall British radio and television actor. He is also a playwright, author and music hall singer.
He is best known for his very long-running radio series The News Huddlines and recently for his role as the undertaker Archie Shuttleworth in the phenomenally popular ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street.
Hudd has written several books on music hall and Variety, made music hall records and appeared in live pantomime and variety performances, and is seen by broadcasters as an authority on the subject.
On radio, he has also given his voice to the roles of Max Quordlepleen in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Phillimore in The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson, an original Sherlock Holmes radio play in the series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002). He appeared as his hero Max Miller in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Pier Pressure in 2006.
Film appearances include the Avarice segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2003 New Year's Honours List.
His name is sometimes confused with Rod Hull, who had the puppet Emu.
He has recently appeared in the Hollyoaks spin-off, In the City.
He has also had a long association with the Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service where he is considered an honorary member. In 1994 he officially opened their current studios in the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
[edit] External links
- Roy Hudd at The Internet Movie Database
- BBC Biography/Profile
- BBC -- Radio comic Roy Hudd honoured with OBE
[edit] References
- GRO: JUN 1936 2a 883 CROYDON - Roy Hudd - mmn = Barham
