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
1991
- Murder Most Horrid as Carriage Driver
1990
- Hamlet as The Players
1989
- Campion as Branch
- Around the World in 80 Days as Shirley Rose Engineer
- Death of a Son as Undertaker
1986
- Foreign Body as Newspaper vendor
1985
- Screen Two as Undertaker
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Sims
- Super Gran as Roland Rattray
- Santa Claus: The Movie as Village Leader (uncredited)
- The Doctor and the Devils as Sewerman
- Lost In London as Taxi Driver
1984
- Ellis Island as Stage Door Guard
- The Company of Wolves as Eyepatch
- Return to Waterloo as Mortuary Attendant
1983
- Blackadder as Abel, a Peasant
1982
- Imaginary Friends as George
- Baal as 2nd Cab Driver
1980
- The Elephant Man as Cabman
- Cribb as Shopkeeper
1979
- Minder as Elderly Man
- Dick Turpin as Fellowes
- Worzel Gummidge as Whelk-stall owner
- Coming Out as Charlie Rose
- Schalcken the Painter as Coachman
1978
- Blake's 7 as Slave
- Return of the Saint as Dillon
- Les Misérables as Brevet
- The Big Sleep as Deliveryman (uncredited)
1977
- Secret Army as Belgian Farmer
- Jabberwocky as Ratman
- The Prince and the Pauper as Night Owl
1976
- The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones as Major Domo (uncredited)
- 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
- Warship as Cook Meadows
- Dark Places as Baxter
- Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood as Gyrth
- Doctor Who: The Green Death as Bert
1972
- M*A*S*H as Orderly (uncredited)
- The Protectors as Joe Lomax
- Van der Valk as Caretaker
- Flyaway
1971
- Budgie as Reggie
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Coachman
- The House That Dripped Blood
- Deathday as Postman
1970
- From a Bird's Eye View as Tall Undertaker
- Loving Memory as Man
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
- Omnibus as Coachman
- The Fearless Vampire Killers as Vampire at Ball (uncredited)
- Half a Sixpence as Pub Character
- A Ghost of a Chance as Driver
1965
- Londoners as Second Clerk
- Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis
1964
- Theatre 625 as Mike
1963
- Doctor Who as Bert