Keith Wickham

Keith Wickham (born 9 February 1965) is an English voice actor and comedian known for providing the voices of various characters in the Iconic UK children's television series Thomas & Friends.

Career

He is well known for voicing Changed Daily in The Secret Show, Mr. Small, and Mr. Tall in The Mr. Men Show (UK version), Corneil in Watch My Chops, Mr. Mouseling and most of the male voices in Angelina Ballerina, Nelson the Elephant, Victor the Crocodile and others in 64 Zoo Lane, Frank the Koala, Archie the Crocodile and Sammy the Shopkeeper in The Koala Brothers and Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright and Bryan the Ferry in Toot the Tiny Tugboat.

He is Polluto in Tommy Zoom, the first in-house BBC animation production, The Professor, Pipsquawk, Trevor and Mr. Crumble in Frankenstein's Cat and is also in Disney Channel's Jungle Junction, (Early 2009) for then "Playhouse Disney and Spider Eye Productions.

Other cartoons include: Vampires, Pirates & Aliens, Tails and The Thousand Tasks, The Way Things Work, and The Octonauts in which he plays both Professor Inkling and biologist Shellington. He has appeared in about 20 CD-ROM games including Fable and Fable II, and his voice is on numerous TV commercials. He appeared on stage as Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne Revisited.

He is also recognised for playing Steff ant Sariac from Pitt and Kantrop.

Other work

Wickham also worked as an actor and writer on the radio series Bits from Last Week's Radio recorded by Ear Drum productions for BBC Radio 1. As well as voicing 'Jack of Blades' in the 2004 video game Fable.

He's also done various acting for the company; iHasco, The Interactive Health and Safety Company^[2][3] and demonstrates through some of their interactive training such as, Asbestos Awareness,^[4] Display Screen Equipment Training,^[5]COSHH,^[6] Fire Awareness in the Workplace,^[7] Food Safety and Hygiene training level 1,Food Safety and Hygiene level 2^[8] and a few others that can be found here.

Thomas & Friends – CGI Version

Since 2009, Wickham has co-worked on the CGI version of the Iconic UK television series Thomas & Friends, once again co-featuring the voice of his co-star Ben Small, (with whom Wickham previously collaborated in Corneil & Bernie). Small has since left and now replaced by John Hasler, (whom Wickham also collaborates with, in Toot the Tiny Tugboat).

Wickham co-provides the voices of various characters of the series, as listed below.

Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy (Hero of the Rails - Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure), Whiff, Dash and Harold in the UK, and
Harvey, Glynn, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Bert, Stafford, Salty, Den, Norman, Bertie (Series 17 onwards), Captain and The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt (UK, Hero of the Rails onwards/US, The Adventure Begins onwards) in both the UK/US, as well as other characters alike.

Voice roles

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

• Official website
• Keith Wickham at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.cbeebies.com
• The Interactive Health and Safety Company