Roy Evans
Acting
1930-01-10 · Bristol, England, UK
Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder. Born in Fishponds, he was adopted by Edmund Evans and Clarice Augusta Georgina May Evans (née Gowen). As a teenager, Evans went to London to become a dancer and actor. His dancing work includes visiting the Nottingham Theatre Royal with the International Ballet Company in 1951, gaining a long run in A Girl Called Jo at Piccadilly Theatre followed by a six-month engagement as principal male ballet dancer with the Swedish national ballet company. In film he is particularly known for roles in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Oliver! (1968), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968), Where's Jack? (1969), Loving Memory (1971), Dark Places (1973), Jabberwocky (1977), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Company of Wolves (1984).
Filmography
Global Conspiracy?
2004 · Movie
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003 · Movie
The Gathering
2003 · Movie
Restoration
1995 · Movie
Johnny and the Dead
1995 · Series
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Movie
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · Series
Hamlet
1990 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
1989 · Series
Campion
1989 · Series
Death of a Son
1989 · Movie
Andy Capp
1988 · Series
Border
1988 · Movie
Foreign Body
1986 · Movie
Lost In London
1985 · Movie
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985 · Movie
The Doctor and the Devils
1985 · Movie
Super Gran
1985 · Series
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Ellis Island
1984 · Series
Return to Waterloo
1984 · Movie
The Company of Wolves
1984 · Movie
Blackadder
1983 · Series
Imaginary Friends
1982 · Movie
Baal
1982 · Movie
The Elephant Man
1980 · Movie
Cribb
1980 · Series
Schalcken the Painter
1979 · Movie
Minder
1979 · Series
Terror
1979 · Movie
Coming Out
1979 · Movie
Worzel Gummidge
1979 · Series
Dick Turpin
1979 · Series
Les Misérables
1978 · Movie
Return of the Saint
1978 · Series
The Big Sleep
1978 · Movie
Blake's 7
1978 · Series
Secret Army
1977 · Series
The Prince and the Pauper
1977 · Movie
Jabberwocky
1977 · Movie
Hazlitt in Love
1977 · Movie
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976 · Movie
No Hard Feelings
1976 · Movie
Poldark
1975 · Series
Churchill's People
1974 · Series
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973 · Movie
Warship
1973 · Series
Dark Places
1973 · Movie
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1973 · Movie
The Protectors
1972 · Series
M*A*S*H
1972 · Series
Van der Valk
1972 · Series
Flyaway
1972 · Movie
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · Series
Deathday
1971 · Movie
Budgie
1971 · Series
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · Movie
Scrooge
1970 · Movie
Loving Memory
1970 · Movie
From a Bird's Eye View
1970 · Series
The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket
1969 · Movie
Where's Jack?
1969 · Movie
Oliver!
1968 · Movie
The Blood Beast Terror
1968 · Movie
The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids
1968 · Movie
Half a Sixpence
1967 · Movie
The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
A Ghost of a Chance
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
1965 · Movie
Londoners
1965 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series