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Keith Wickham is an English voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for providing the voices of various characters in the children's television series Thomas & Friends, and Polluto in Tommy Zoom.

Keith Wickham
Born	St Albans, Hertfordshire, England[1]
Occupation	Voice actor, comedian, screenwriter
Years active	1996–present
Known for	64 Zoo Lane (1999–2000)
Website	keithwickham.co.uk/

Career

Wickham voiced Changed Daily in The Secret Show, Mr. Small, and Mr. Tall in The Mr. Men Show (UK version), Corneil in Watch My Chops, Mr. Mouseling and most of the male voices in Angelina Ballerina, Nelson the Elephant, Reginald the Lion, Victor the Crocodile and the others in 64 Zoo Lane, Frank the Koala, Archie the Crocodile and Sammy the Shopkeeper in The Koala Brothers and Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright and Bryan the Ferry in Toot the Tiny Tugboat.^{[citation needed]}

He voiced Polluto in Tommy Zoom, the first in-house BBC animation production, The Professor, Pipsquawk, Trevor and Mr. Crumble in Frankenstein's Cat and in 2009, participated on voice in Disney Channel's Jungle Junction, for then Playhouse Disney and Spider Eye Productions.^{[citation needed]}

Other cartoons include: Vampires, Pirates & Aliens, Tails and The Thousand Tasks, The Way Things Work, and The Octonauts in which he plays both Professor Inkling and biologist Shellington. He has appeared in about 20 CD-ROM games including Fable and Fable II, and voiced TV commercials.^{[citation needed]} He appeared on stage as Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne Revisited.^{[citation needed]}

He is also recognised for voicing Steff and Sariac from Pitt and Kantrop.^{[citation needed]}

Other work

Wickham worked as an actor and writer on the radio series Bits from Last Week's Radio recorded by Ear Drum productions for BBC Radio 1, as well as voicing Jack of Blades in the 2004 video game Fable.^{[citation needed]}

He can also be heard in the podcast The Offcuts Drawer as part of the cast.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, he has done acting work for the company iHASCO,[2][3] and demonstrates through some of their interactive training, on issues such as asbestos awareness[4] Bullying & Harassment training,[5] Equality & Diversity,[6] Health & Safety in the workplace,[7] Food Allergy Awareness [8] amongst others.

Thomas & Friends – CGI version

Since 2009, Wickham has co-worked on the CGI version of the children's television series Thomas & Friends. Wickham co-provides the voices of various characters of the series: Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Whiff, Dash and Harold in the UK, and Harvey, Glynn, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Bert, Stafford, Salty, Den, Norman, Bertie, Captain, Sir Topham Hatt, Dowager Hatt in both the UK/US, and various other characters.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, Wickham reprised his roles as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt in Rainbow Sun Productions' 20th anniversary celebration reading of Thomas and the Magic Railroad.^{[citation needed]}

Radio restoration

Wickham has been involved in restoration of archive BBC Radio comedy shows. He traced missing episodes of the series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which were repeated on BBC Radio 7, and restored episodes for broadcast.[9]

Voice roles

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Christmas Carol: The Movie	Mr. Leach and Undertaker
2002	Return to Never Land	Schroder
	The King's Beard	Additional voices
2005	Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance	William Longtail and Mr. Maurice Mouseling	Direct-to-video
2006	Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest	Le Père	English version
	Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail	William Longtail and Mr. Maurice Mouseling
	The Jungle Book: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to the Rescue	Bagheera	As part of the BKN Classic Series trilogy
	A Christmas Carol	Scrooge's Father, Jacob Marley, Collector of the Orphange # 1, Ghost of Christmas Past and Ghost of Christmas Present
2007	Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter?	Additional voices
	The Three Musketeers: Saving the Crown
2009	Hero of the Rails	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy and the Fat Controller	UK voice; direct-to-DVD
2010	Misty Island Rescue	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Whiff, Dash, Harold and the Fat Controller (UK) Salty and Captain	Direct-to-video
	Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island	Leonardo
2011	Day of the Diesels	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy and the Fat Controller (UK) Salty, Den, Norman, Paxton and Dowager Hatt	Direct-to-video
2012	Blue Mountain Mystery	Edward, Henry, James, Percy the Fat Controller and the Thin Controller (UK) Skarloey and Sir Handel
2013	King of the Railway	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy and the Fat Controller (UK) Skarloey
	Moshi Monsters: The Movie	Buster Bumblechops and Diavlo
2014	Tale of the Brave	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy and the Fat Controller (UK) Salty and a shunter	Direct-to-DVD
2015	Thomas (the Tank Engine) & Friends: The Adventure Begins	Edward, Henry, Gordon and James (UK) Glynn, Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat Director, Gordon's driver, James's guard, the Knapford Station speaker, some workmen and some signalmen
	Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure	Edward, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy (UK) Salty, Arlesdale Bert, Bertie, Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat Controller, a diver, some workmen and a policeman
2016	Thomas & Friends: The Great Race	Edward, Henry, Gordon and James (UK) Salty, Den, Norman, Stafford, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Arlesdale Bert and Sir Topham Hatt
2017	Journey Beyond Sodor	Edward, Henry and Gordon (UK) Sir Topham Hatt
2018	Big World! Big Adventures!	Edward, Henry, Gordon, Harold and the Thin Controller (UK) Bertie, Sir Topham Hatt, additional voices

Television

Year(s)	Title	Role	Notes
1996–1998	Douglas and Vince: The Two Heroes	Vince	Alongside Richard Pearce
1998-2007	Gamba no Bouken	Noroi
1998–2000	Archibald the Koala	Archduke	Alongside Richard Griffiths
1999–2000	64 Zoo Lane	various (US version)	52 episodes
2000–06	Cubeez	Bozz	Alongside Marc Silk & Tara Newley
2002–06	Angelina Ballerina	Mr. Mouseling, Grandpa Mouseling, William Longtail, Doctor Tuttle, various characters	Alongside Rob Rackstraw
2002	Wilf the Witch's Dog	Door, Sly	Alongside Kerry Shale
2003–06	Watch My Chops	Corneil	Alongside Ben Small
2004–07	The Koala Brothers	Frank and Archie	Alongside Rob Rackstraw
2005	Pitt & Kantrop	Stef, Sariac, Vegas & Atlas	Alongside Emma Tate
2005–08	Planet Sketch		Alongside Morwenna Banks, John Sparkes and Bert Kwouk
2007	Tommy Zoom	Polluto and Bad Polluto Drawings
2007–08	The Secret Show	Changed Daily	Alongside Rob Rackstraw
2008	Frankenstein's Cat	Trevor, Dr. Frankenstein, Mr. Crumble and Pipsquawk	Alongside Joe Pasquale
2008–10	The Mr. Men Show	Mr. Small and Mr. Tall	Alongside Teresa Gallagher, Steven Kynman, Rob Rackstraw and Tim Whitnall; UK voice role
2009–13	Jungle Junction	Bungo, Crocker and Dozer	Alongside Jimmy Hibbert
2009–21	Thomas & Friends	Edward, Henry, Gordon, Whiff, Dash, Harold and Mr. Percival (UK) The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt (US; 2015 onwards / UK), Harvey, Glynn, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Arlesdale Bert, Stafford, Salty, Den, Norman, Bertie, Captain, Dowager Hatt and Lord Callan	Succeeded by Nigel Pilkington as the role of Percy (UK) and Rob Rackstraw as the role of James
2009–present	The Octonauts	Shellington, Professor Inkling	Alongside Simon Greenall, Jo Wyatt, and Rob Rackstraw
2011–12	Fleabag Monkeyface	Dr. Dirk Spamflex	Alongside Bob Golding
2014–present	Toot the Tiny Tugboat	Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright, Bryan the Ferry	alongside John Hasler
2015–2016	Wissper	Bert and Monty	Alongside India Chesher-Good
2019	Ricky Zoom	Loop	Alongside Max Fincham
	Thomas & Friends: Steam Team to the Rescue	Edward, Henry, Gordon, The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt, Salty, Den, Captain and Norman (UK/US)	Television Special
2020	Thomas & Friends: The Royal Engine	Henry, Gordon, The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt, Dowager Hatt, Thomas' Crew and a Stationmaster (UK/US)	Television Special
	Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery	Edward, Gordon (UK) Harvey, Salty, Harold, Sir Topham Hatt, The Policeman, and the Station Master (UK/US)	Television Miniseries
2021	The Smurfs: A New Touch of Blue	TBA	TBA

Video games

Year	Title	Role
1996	Privateer 2: The Darkening	Male Space Communications
1996	MindGym[10]	The Narrator
1997	City of Lost Children	Additional voices
2004	Fable	Jack of Blades
2005	Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King	Dhoulmagus
	Shinobido: Way of the Ninja	Goh the Bear and Kenobi Ninja
2006	Medieval II: Total War	Additional voices
2007	Genji: Days of the Blade	Genji Warrior (Guard B), Heishi Warrior A and Yoritomo
2008	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Colonel Cutlass, Briquet and a soldier
	Fable II	Additional voices
	Memento Mori
2009	Cursed Mountain	Edward Alexander Bennett
2013	The Night of the Rabbit	Garden Rabbit
2017	Xenoblade Chronicles 2	Niranira

References

External links

• Official website
• Keith Wickham at IMDb
• http://www.cbeebies.com

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