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Roger Blake

Impressionists tend to be famous voices attached to faces nobody places, and Roger Blake has had exactly that career. The Welsh actor, impressionist and entertainer supplied Prince Philip for Spitting Image and later for The Big Impression, played Noel Coward in television commercials and in the Red Dwarf episode Meltdown, and narrated Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits as well as the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1991. None of that appears among the credits listed here, which is a fair illustration of how voice work vanishes from a filmography.

What is here is the on camera trade that ran alongside it: ACO Baxter in the long running ITV firefighting drama London's Burning, Giant Thor in the television fantasy Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, and both a policeman and a balloon seller, voices again, in Flushed Away. Three credits is not a career. It is the visible tip of one, and the rest of it lives in a recording booth.

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Where to start with Roger Blake

Flushed Away is where to start, mostly because it is the credit you can hand to anyone. Aardman built that film out of dozens of small vocal turns, and Blake doing two of them is the whole job description of a working impressionist: be several people, be none of them for long.

London's Burning is the one for seeing him on camera in something with weight behind it, a long running ITV drama that took its firefighters seriously. Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story is the oddity, a television fantasy that gives him a giant to play and a lot of latitude to enjoy it. For the impressions themselves you will have to look outside this list.

Genres Roger Blake works in