Roger Blake is a British actor, impressionist and entertainer. He is best known for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Spitting Image and The Big Impression and Noël Coward in television commercials and narrated the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1984 to 1989.
Blake had a steady career, he made one of appearances in British TV sitcoms such as Blackadder II, Only Fools and Horses and Dear John. In 1990 he joined the cast of Spitting Image, where he became well known as the voice of Prince Philip, he also voiced other characters including George H. W. Bush, Robert Maxwell, John Prescott and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was on Spitting Image that he met Alistair McGowan, when the show was axed in 1996, McGowan invited him to join him on his new TV show The Big Impression, where again he voiced Prince Philip but also he became famous as the voice of Jim Royle in The Royle Family sketchs.
Blake was also famous for his impression of Noël Coward, he played the playwright in television commercials for coffee and he appeared as Coward himself in the Series four finale of Red Dwarf (Meltdown).
Actors: Billy Bevan (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Richard Derr (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Charles Irwin (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), LeRoy Mason (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Henry Wilcoxon (actor), Mary Field (actress), Helene Reynolds (actress), Ruth Warren (actress),
Plot: In the shadows of the night Dudley Wolff ('Paul Harvey (I)' (qv)), his secretary Alfred Dunning ('Robert Emmett Keane' (qv)), and his doctor, Haggard ('Henry Wilcoxon' (qv)), bury a body in the estate cemetery. At the house, Wolff's daughter Catherine ('Marjorie Weaver' (qv)) arrives unexpectedly and tells her step-mother Anne Wolff ('Helene Reynolds' (qv) that she has just been married to Roger Blake ('Richard Derr' (qv)) who will be along in a few days. Cathy retires and is awakened by a mysterious assailant who fires a shot at her, but her parents tell her she was just dreaming. Wolff goes to the cemetery and finds the body missing. The scared Cathy calls in fast-talking private detective Mike Shayne ('Lloyd Nolan' (qv)) and, since her father doesn't like detectives, she introduces him as her husband. That evening Shayne hears a shot and finds that Haggard has been killed. While the police are questioning the family, the lights go out and a shot is fired from outside.
Keywords: b-movie, based-on-novel, bigamy, blackmail, bullet, caretaker, conspiracy, cook, damsel-in-distress, detectiveRoger Blake is a British actor, impressionist and entertainer. He is best known for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Spitting Image and The Big Impression and Noël Coward in television commercials and narrated the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1984 to 1989.
Blake had a steady career, he made one of appearances in British TV sitcoms such as Blackadder II, Only Fools and Horses and Dear John. In 1990 he joined the cast of Spitting Image, where he became well known as the voice of Prince Philip, he also voiced other characters including George H. W. Bush, Robert Maxwell, John Prescott and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was on Spitting Image that he met Alistair McGowan, when the show was axed in 1996, McGowan invited him to join him on his new TV show The Big Impression, where again he voiced Prince Philip but also he became famous as the voice of Jim Royle in The Royle Family sketchs.
Blake was also famous for his impression of Noël Coward, he played the playwright in television commercials for coffee and he appeared as Coward himself in the Series four finale of Red Dwarf (Meltdown).
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