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Roger May (2)

Author of The Time Machine

For other authors named Roger May, see the disambiguation page.

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Associated Works

The Time Machine (1895) — Narrator, some editions — 20,374 copies, 389 reviews
Julius Caesar (1623) — Narrator, some editions — 11,932 copies, 103 reviews
The Persian Boy (1972) — Narrator, some editions — 2,565 copies, 43 reviews
Fire from Heaven (1969) — Narrator, some editions — 2,473 copies, 35 reviews
The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (2015) — Narrator, some editions — 508 copies, 4 reviews
Most Secret (1945) — Narrator, some editions — 471 copies, 12 reviews

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Common Knowledge

Gender
male
Education
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupations
actor
Short biography
Roger has been a professional actor since 1991. As a voice actor he has recorded over 100 radio plays and short stories for the BBC. He is an award-winning reader of many audiobooks and contributes frequently to the world of computer games, most recently in Greedfall and Assassins Creed Valhalla. Animation work includes Peter Rabbit and Sarah and Duck. He also does a lot of corporate, ADR and educational voice work, both in English and in French (in which he is fluent, having been born and brought up in Belgium).

On stage, Roger has worked in many theatres in the country, including seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester, Southampton, Exeter and Harrogate. He played ‘Daddy’ (My Daddy) in The Railway Children at London Waterloo, The Pitmen Painters at the New Vic and, most recently, as Father Christmas in The Snow Queen in Kingston. He has also twice toured the U.S with Shakespeare plays - as well as directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wyoming.

On screen, Roger has appeared in, among others, The Hour, Victoria, Doctors, MI High and Casualty. He is a returning character in Father Brown (playing Canon Fox) and was in the latest series of The Crown.
Nationality
UK
Associated Place (for map)
UK

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