Roy Evans
Born: 1930-01-10 in Bristol, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2004
- Global Conspiracy? as Talfryn Pritchard
2003
- The Gathering as The Gathering
- Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher as Ted Prendergast
1995
- Restoration as Fleeing Man
- Johnny and the Dead as Boatman
1993
- The Hour of the Pig as Travelling Player
1990
- Hamlet as The Players
1989
- Around the World in 80 Days as Shirley Rose Engineer
- Campion as Branch
- Death of a Son as Undertaker
1986
- Foreign Body as Newspaper vendor
1985
- Santa Claus: The Movie as Village Leader (uncredited)
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Sims
- Screen Two as Undertaker
- Super Gran as Roland Rattray
- The Doctor and the Devils as Sewerman
- Lost In London as Taxi Driver
1984
- The Company of Wolves as Eyepatch
- Return to Waterloo as Mortuary Attendant
- Ellis Island as Stage Door Guard
1983
- Blackadder as Abel, a Peasant
1982
- Baal as 2nd Cab Driver
- Imaginary Friends as George
1980
- The Elephant Man as Cabman
1979
- Minder as Elderly Man
- Coming Out as Charlie Rose
- Dick Turpin as Fellowes
- Worzel Gummidge as Whelk-stall owner
- Schalcken the Painter as Coachman
1978
- Les Misérables as Brevet
- Blake's 7 as Slave
- Return of the Saint as Dillon
- The Big Sleep as Deliveryman (uncredited)
1977
- Secret Army as Belgian Farmer
- Jabberwocky as Ratman
- The Prince and the Pauper as Night Owl
1976
- No Hard Feelings as soldier
1975
- Poldark as Nick Vigus
1974
- Churchill's People as Churl
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon as Miner
1973
- Dark Places as Baxter
- Warship as Cook Meadows
- Doctor Who: The Green Death as Bert
- Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood as Gyrth
1972
- M*A*S*H as Orderly (uncredited)
- Van der Valk as Caretaker
- The Protectors as Joe Lomax
- Flyaway
1971
- The House That Dripped Blood
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Coachman
- Budgie as Reggie
1970
- Loving Memory as Man
- From a Bird's Eye View as Tall Undertaker
1969
- Where's Jack? as Mr Hind
- The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket as Man Poke by Stick
1968
- Oliver! as Pauper - Workhouse
- The Blood Beast Terror as 2nd Porter
- The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids as Street Cleaner
1967
- The Fearless Vampire Killers as Vampire at Ball (uncredited)
- Half a Sixpence as Pub Character
- A Ghost of a Chance as Driver
1966
- Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis
1965
- Londoners as Second Clerk
1964
- Theatre 625 as Mike
1963
- Doctor Who as Bert