Graham Seed (born 12 July 1950 in London) is an English actor.Seed was
educated at Charterhouse School, an independent boarding school in the
market town of Godalming in Surrey, followed by RADA in London.Seed is
best known for his role playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio
series The Archers from 1983 until January 2011, although actor Nigel
Carrington briefly played the role when Seed took a break in the late
1980s. Seed appeared in the well-known "Is it on the Trolley?" sketch,
alongside Victoria Wood (its author) and Duncan Preston in Wood's As
Seen on TV series. After his character's death in 2011, Seed played
himself as the villain in a Radio 4 pantomime who plans to bring down
Radio 4 by releasing the Pips, but ultimately falls to his death
whilst retrieving a banner, paralleling his Archers character. In
addition to The Archers, Seed has appeared in the TV soap operas
Brookside (1995â€"97, as Dick Thornton), Coronation Street (1981, as a
solicitor) and Crossroads (1985â€"88, as Charlie Mycroft).Seed's roles
include the adult Britannicus, son of the emperor Claudius in the BBC
adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius (1976), Harrop in William
Boyd's Channel 4 Film Good and Bad at Games (1983) and Jorkins in the
first episode "Et in Arcadia ego" of the Granada Television television
adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (1981). He also appeared in ATV's
Edward the Seventh (1975), Bergerac (1981), C.A.B. (1986) Midsomer
Murders (2009) and Wild Target (2010).
educated at Charterhouse School, an independent boarding school in the
market town of Godalming in Surrey, followed by RADA in London.Seed is
best known for his role playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio
series The Archers from 1983 until January 2011, although actor Nigel
Carrington briefly played the role when Seed took a break in the late
1980s. Seed appeared in the well-known "Is it on the Trolley?" sketch,
alongside Victoria Wood (its author) and Duncan Preston in Wood's As
Seen on TV series. After his character's death in 2011, Seed played
himself as the villain in a Radio 4 pantomime who plans to bring down
Radio 4 by releasing the Pips, but ultimately falls to his death
whilst retrieving a banner, paralleling his Archers character. In
addition to The Archers, Seed has appeared in the TV soap operas
Brookside (1995â€"97, as Dick Thornton), Coronation Street (1981, as a
solicitor) and Crossroads (1985â€"88, as Charlie Mycroft).Seed's roles
include the adult Britannicus, son of the emperor Claudius in the BBC
adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius (1976), Harrop in William
Boyd's Channel 4 Film Good and Bad at Games (1983) and Jorkins in the
first episode "Et in Arcadia ego" of the Granada Television television
adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (1981). He also appeared in ATV's
Edward the Seventh (1975), Bergerac (1981), C.A.B. (1986) Midsomer
Murders (2009) and Wild Target (2010).
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