Edward "Ted" Kelsey (4 June 1930 â€" 23 April 2019) was an English
actor. He was best known for voicing the role of Joe Grundy for 34
years in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 and for voicing various other
characters on television.Kelsey was born in Petersfield, Hampshire,
and educated at Churcher's College. In 1954, he joined the Radio Drama
Company by winning the Carlton Hobbs Bursary He was known for voicing
the characters of Colonel K and Baron Silas Greenback in the animated
series DangerMouse produced by Cosgrove Hall. He has also appeared on
British TV programmes as The Avengers, Softly, Softly, The Saint,
Public Eye, Dempsey and Makepeace, Z-Cars, Juliet Bravo, Doctor Who,
Minder, Angels, Casualty, The Vicar of Dibley, Reilly: Ace of Spies,
Shoestring, Wives and Daughters, Anna of the Five Towns, Campion, The
Tripods and EastEnders.He acted in three Doctor Who stories, as a
slave buyer in The Romans, Resno in The Power of the Daleks and Edu in
The Creature from the Pit. He voiced Mr. Growbag in Wallace and
Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), several characters in
Victor and Hugo, Cosgrove Hall's The Reluctant Dragon and The Wind in
the Willows (TV and film), H.H. Junketbury in The Talking Parcel,
Farmer Listener and Forester in The Fool of the World and the Flying
Ship and also for the voice of "The Thing" in another Cosgrove Hall
production, Truckers, based on a book by Terry Pratchett.
actor. He was best known for voicing the role of Joe Grundy for 34
years in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 and for voicing various other
characters on television.Kelsey was born in Petersfield, Hampshire,
and educated at Churcher's College. In 1954, he joined the Radio Drama
Company by winning the Carlton Hobbs Bursary He was known for voicing
the characters of Colonel K and Baron Silas Greenback in the animated
series DangerMouse produced by Cosgrove Hall. He has also appeared on
British TV programmes as The Avengers, Softly, Softly, The Saint,
Public Eye, Dempsey and Makepeace, Z-Cars, Juliet Bravo, Doctor Who,
Minder, Angels, Casualty, The Vicar of Dibley, Reilly: Ace of Spies,
Shoestring, Wives and Daughters, Anna of the Five Towns, Campion, The
Tripods and EastEnders.He acted in three Doctor Who stories, as a
slave buyer in The Romans, Resno in The Power of the Daleks and Edu in
The Creature from the Pit. He voiced Mr. Growbag in Wallace and
Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), several characters in
Victor and Hugo, Cosgrove Hall's The Reluctant Dragon and The Wind in
the Willows (TV and film), H.H. Junketbury in The Talking Parcel,
Farmer Listener and Forester in The Fool of the World and the Flying
Ship and also for the voice of "The Thing" in another Cosgrove Hall
production, Truckers, based on a book by Terry Pratchett.
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