A Conversation for HHGTTG - what about the actors?

HHGTTG Actors

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monkey_subversive

from: http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0081874

Mark Wing Davey (Zaphod)

Mark Wing-Davey is the son of actor Peter Davey and actress Anna Wing (Lou Beale in the British TV soap "EastEnders"). Wing-Davey has an extensive background in the theatre, as a performer, director, and teacher of the dramatic arts. As a student at Cambridge University, he was a member of the Footlights Dramatic Club from 1967-70.
appeared in:
Grey Zone, The (2001) .... Schott
One Against the Wind (1991) (TV) .... Col. Miles Grant, Leggat's CO
Tumbledown (1989) (TV) .... Adjutant Stewart Inglis
Resurrected (1989) .... Maj. Dunbar
"Modern World: Ten Great Writers, The" (1988) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... Franz Kafka
Virtuoso (1988) (TV) .... Dr. Powell
Englishman Abroad, An (1983) (TV) .... Hamlet
Tragedy of Richard the Third, The (1983) (TV) .... Sir James Tyrrel
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Richard the Third, The (1983) (TV) (USA: video title)
... aka Richard III (1983) (TV) (UK)
Henry VI, Part Three (1983) (TV) .... Earl of Warwick
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part Three, The (1983) (TV) (USA: video title)
... aka Third Part of King Henry VI, The (1983) (TV) (UK)
Henry VI, Part Two (1983) (TV) .... Earl of Warwick
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part Two, The (1983) (TV) (USA: video title)
... aka Second Part of King Henry VI, The (1983) (TV) (UK)
Henry VI, Part One (1983) (TV) .... Earl of Warwick
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One, The (1983) (TV) (USA: video title)
... aka First Part of King Henry VI, The (1983) (TV) (UK)
"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Zaphod Beeblebrox
Breaking Glass (1980) .... Fordyce
"Glittering Prizes, The" (1976) (mini) TV Series .... Mike Clode
Ready When You Are Mr. McGill (1976) (TV) .... Assistant Director
... aka Red Letter Day: Ready When You Are Mr. McGill (1976) (TV) (UK: series title)
Crazy Kill, The (1975) (TV) .... Cater
... aka Fear Is Spreading (1975) (TV) (USA)
... aka Thriller: The Crazy Kill (1975) (TV) (UK: series title)
"Absolutely Fabulous" (1992) playing "Accountant Malcolm" in episode: "Poor" (episode # 2.5) 3 March 1994
"Chelmsford 123" (1988) playing "Clupeus" in episode: "Something Beginning with "E" (episode # 2.7) 20 February 1990
"Chelmsford 123" (1988) playing "Triconi 2" in episode: "Vidi, Vici, Veni" (episode # 1.5) 6 April 1988
"Comic Strip Presents, The" (1982) playing "Party Guest" in episode: "Didn't You Kill My Brother?" (episode # 4.5) 19 March 1988
"Juliet Bravo" (1980) playing "John Thorpe" in episode: "Talk to Me" (episode # 6.4) 28 September 1985
"Dempsey & Makepeace" (1985) playing "Mark Savory" (uncredited) in episode: "Armed and Extremely Dangerous: Part 1" (episode # 1.1) 11 January 1985
"Dempsey & Makepeace" (1985) playing "Mark Savory" in episode: "Armed and Extremely Dangerous: Part 2" (episode # 1.2) 11 January 1985

Simon Jones (Arthur Dent)

"Paramour" (1999) (mini) TV Series
"One Life to Live" (1968) TV Series .... Guy Armitage (1997)
... aka "One Life to Live: The Summer of Seduction" (2001) (USA: promotional title)
Merchant of Death (1997)
... aka Mission of Death (1997)
"LIBERTY! The American Revolution" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Secretary Ambrose Serle
Devil's Own, The (1997) .... Harry Sloan
Twelve Monkeys (1995) .... Zoologist
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) .... Donald Shellhammer
For Love or Money (1993) .... Albert
... aka Concierge, The (1993) (Australia) (USA: working title)
American Friends (1991) .... Anderson
Green Card (1990) .... Party Guest at Adler's
... aka Green Card (1990) (France)
"Tattingers" (1989) TV Series .... Norman Asher
... aka "Nick & Hillary" (1989) (new title)
"Sunday Premiere: Claws" (1987) TV Series .... Eric
Club Paradise (1986) .... Toby Prooth
Brazil (1985) .... Arrest Official
"News Is the News, The" (1983) TV Series
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) .... Jeremy Portland-Smythe
Giro City (1982) .... Henderson
... aka And Nothing But the Truth (1982)
Privates on Parade (1982) .... Sgt. Eric Young-Love (Erica)
"Brideshead Revisited" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Brideshead 'Bridey' Flyte
"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Arthur Dent
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980) .... Joachim
"Omnibus" (1967) playing "Himself" in episode: "Douglas Adams: The Man Who Blew Up the World" 4 August 2001
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) playing "Darien Marshall" in episode: "Folly" (episode # 2.17) 23 March 2001
"Oz" (1997) playing "Judge Mason Kessler" in episode: "The Bill of Wrongs" (episode # 4.3) 26 July 2000
"CI5: The New Professionals" (1998) playing "Shaw" in episode: "Samurai Wind" (episode # 1.6) 24 October 1999
"Tarzan: The Epic Adventures" (1996) playing "Hawg" in episode: "Tarzan and the Moon God" (episode # 1.13) 2 February 1997
"Remember WENN" (1996) playing "Ted E. Peck" in episode: "Valentino Speaks!" (episode # 1.10) 13 July 1996
"Cosby Mysteries, The" (1994) playing "Winston Murdoch" in episode: "The Fine Art of Murder" (episode # 1.7) 2 November 1994
"South Bank Show, The" (1978) playing "Arthur Dent" in episode: "Douglas Adams" (episode # 15.13) 5 January 1992
"Murder, She Wrote" (1984) playing "Barnaby Friar" in episode: "Witness for the Defense" (episode # 4.3) 4 October 1987
"Newhart" (1982) playing "Dr. Miles Rangel" in episode: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Loudon" (episode # 5.19) 16 February 1987
"Blackadder II" (1986) playing "Sir Walter Raleigh" in episode: "Potato" (episode # 1.3) 23 January 1986
"Hart to Hart" (1979) playing "Calvin" in episode: "Two Harts Are Better Than One" (episode # 5.1) 27 September 1983
"Rock Follies" (1976) playing "Juan" in episode: "The Blitz" (episode # 6) 30 March 1976

David Dixon (Ford Prefect)

Original Sin (1996) (TV) .... Dr. Wardle
Missionary, The (1982) .... Young Man
"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Ford Prefect
Tempest, The (1980/I) (TV) .... Ariel
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: The Tempest, The (1980) (TV) (USA: video title)
"Horseman Riding By, A" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Keith Horsey
"Lillie" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Prince Leopold
"Legend of Robin Hood, The" (1975) (mini) TV Series .... Prince John
Escort Girls (1974)
... aka All Lovers Are Strangers (1974) (UK: reissue title)
"Family at War, A" (1970) TV Series .... Robert Ashton
"Bill, The" (1983) playing "James Lester" in episode: "Heat and Light" (episode # 1998.112) 8 December 1998
"Bill, The" (1983) playing "Brian Vaughan" in episode: "Too Much to Lose" (episode # 1997.77) 1 July 1997
"Touch of Frost, A" (1992) playing "Barry Curzon" in episode: "Fun Times for Swingers" (episode # 4.4) 28 January 1996
"South Bank Show, The" (1978) playing "Ford Prefect" in episode: "Douglas Adams" (episode # 15.13) 5 January 1992
"Boon" (1986) playing "DS Don Swift" in episode: "Lost on the Range" (episode # 6.7) 5 November 1991
"Boon" (1986) playing "DS Don Speed" in episode: "Tales From the River Bank" (episode # 5.2) 2 October 1990
"Tutti Frutti" (1987) playing "Stuart Gordon Inverarrity" in episode: "Love Hurts" (episode # 5) 31 March 1987
"Rock Follies" (1976) playing "Rob" in episode: "The Talking Pictures" (episode # 4) 16 March 1976
"Sweeney, The" (1975) playing "Andy Deacon" in episode: "Big Brother" (episode # 2.4) 22 September 1975


Sandra Dickenson (Tricia 'Trillian' McMillan)

"Teletubbies" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Female Trumpet Voice/additional voices
Space Truckers (1996) .... Bitchin' Betty
... aka Star Truckers (1996)
Balto (1995) (voice) (as Sandra Searles Dickinson) .... Slyvie or Sylvie
"World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, The" (1993) TV Series (voice) .... Jemima Puddle-Duck
"2point4 Children" (1991) TV Series .... Aunt Tina
Dead Man's Folly (1986) (TV) .... Marilyn Gale
... aka Agatha Christie's 'Dead Man's Folly' (1986) (TV)
"Clairvoyant, The" (1984) TV Series
Supergirl (1984) .... Pretty Young Lady
... aka Supergirl: The Movie (1984)
Lonely Lady, The (1983) .... Nancy Day
Superman III (1983) .... Wife
"Cover" (1981) TV Series
"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Trillian
"What's On Next?" (1976) TV Series
Final Programme, The (1973) .... Waitress
... aka Last Days of Man on Earth, The (1973) (USA)
"Breakfast" (2000) playing "Herself" 30 July 2001
"Casualty" (1986) playing "Debbie Hall" in episode: "Something From the Heart" (episode # 15.23) 2 February 2001
"Sunburn" (1999/II) playing "Sylvie Chalfont" in episode: "Children and Growing Up" (episode # 2.3) 5 February 2000
"Lenny Goes to Town" (1998) playing "Anneka Rice" in episode: "Brighton" (episode # 1.4) 26 September 1998
"Tales from the Crypt" (1989) (as Sandra Searles Dickinson) in episode: "The Reluctant Vampire" (episode # 3.7) 10 July 1991
"Eisenhower & Lutz" (1988) playing "Patsy Warner" (as Sandra Searles Dickinson) in episode: "Blast from the Past" (episode # 1.5) 18 April 1988
"Tomorrow People, The" (1973) playing "Emily" in episode: "A Man for Emily" 1975


you'll also find there that Dave Prowse plays Hotblack Desiato's bouncer. he's better known as the body of Darth Vader.


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