Sean Barrett (actor)

Seán Barrett
Born 4 May 1940 (1940-05-04) (age 71)
Hampstead, London, England
Occupation Voice actor
Years active 1953 - present

Seán Barrett (born 4 May 1940, Hampstead, London, England, UK) is a British actor and voice actor.

He began acting as a child appearing on BBC children's television and in films such as Bang! You're Dead, War and Peace, The Genie and Four Sided Triangle.

Years later he made many appearances in television and films including ITV Television Playhouse, Z-Cars, The Wednesday Play, Cast a Giant Shadow, Emergency-Ward 10, Chronicle, Armchair Theatre, Hell Boats, Moonstrike, Attack on the Iron Coast, Softly, Softly, The Terrorists, Robin Hood Junior, BBC Play of the Month, The Zoo Robbery, Paul of Tarsus, Tales of the Unexpected, Father Ted, Holby City, Brush Strokes, Minder, Poldark, Noah's Ark and Theatre 625.

In the early 1980s, Barrett later went on to voice acting. He has performed the voices of Tik-Tok in Return to Oz, a Goblin in Labyrinth, Warrior and other characters in TUGS, Roly the Pineapple in the English version of The Fruities and UrSu the Dying Master and UrZah the Ritual-Guardian in The Dark Crystal as well as additional characters in two video games The Feeble Files and Viking: Battle for Asgard.

He also narrated Fair Ground!, Timewatch and Dark Towers for BBC, dubbed voices in many anime films such as Roujin Z, Cyber City Oedo 808 and Dominion Tank Police and has done voices for several audiobooks and radio stations.

Barrett also worked as part of an ADR Loop Group on Aardman's first computer-animated film Flushed Away and a dialogue director on The Fruities. He has also narrated episodes of the BBC TV series People's Century and Dancing in the Street.

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