Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 10, 1930
Place of Birth
Bristol, England, UK
Credits
74 titles
Roy Evans
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).
Known For
Filmography
Global Conspiracy?
Talfryn Pritchard
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Ted Prendergast
The Gathering
The Gathering
Restoration
Fleeing Man
Johnny and the Dead
Boatman
The Hour of the Pig
Travelling Player
Murder Most Horrid
Carriage Driver
Hamlet
The Players
Around the World in 80 Days
Shirley Rose Engineer
Campion
Branch
Death of a Son
Undertaker
Andy Capp
Workman
Border
Lodger
Foreign Body
Newspaper vendor
Lost In London
Taxi Driver
Santa Claus: The Movie
Village Leader (uncredited)
The Doctor and the Devils
Sewerman
Super Gran
Roland Rattray
Dempsey and Makepeace
Sims
Screen Two
Undertaker
Ellis Island
Stage Door Guard
Return to Waterloo
Mortuary Attendant
The Company of Wolves
Eyepatch
Blackadder
Abel, a Peasant
Imaginary Friends
George
Baal
2nd Cab Driver
The Elephant Man
Cabman
Cribb
Shopkeeper
Schalcken the Painter
Coachman
Minder
Elderly Man
Coming Out
Charlie Rose
Worzel Gummidge
Whelk-stall owner
Dick Turpin
Fellowes
Les Misérables
Brevet
Return of the Saint
Dillon
The Big Sleep
Deliveryman (uncredited)
Blake's 7
Slave
Secret Army
Belgian Farmer
The Prince and the Pauper
Night Owl
Jabberwocky
Ratman
Hazlitt in Love
Birdseller
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Major Domo (uncredited)
No Hard Feelings
soldier
Poldark
Nick Vigus
Churchill's People
Churl
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Miner
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Bert
Warship
Cook Meadows
Dark Places
Baxter
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Gyrth