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Kerry Shale is a Canadian actor and writer based in London, England.

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Kerry Shale
Occupation	Actor writer
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Suzanne Shale ​ (m. 1996)​
Website	www.kerryshale.com

Career

Film

Shale's film appearances include Barbra Streisand's Yentl, Michael Winterbottom's films Genova, Code 46, Jude and Welcome to Sarajevo, the Emmy-winning HBO film RKO 281 as well as 102 Dalmatians, Max, Little Shop of Horrors, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, The Special Relationship, The Jacket, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Final Portrait, Show Dogs, Angel Has Fallen, Wrath of Man and Batgirl.

Television

The Sandman, 'Suspicion, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, Patrick Melrose, Living The Dream, The Trip To Spain, New Blood, Undercover, New Tricks, Mr. Selfridge. Other television acting work includes Red Dwarf (Series X), Life's Too Short, Doctor Who, The Trip, 10 Days To War, Holby City, Not Going Out, Gideon's Daughter and Love Soup, as well as episodes of Cracker, Joking Apart, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sharpe's Rifles, and The Tomorrow People. He played Mr. Beaver in the BBC's 1988 TV adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Animation

Shale has voiced many UK series such as Dennis the Menace, Budgie the Little Helicopter, Captain Star and Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop. He played numerous characters in the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning The Amazing World of Gumball for the Cartoon Network (UK and US). He has also voiced characters in the US version of Roary the Racing Car. Shale was a regular cast member of the long-running Thomas & Friends series in the UK and the US.

Theatre

Shale's extensive work for the stage includes six solo shows (five of which he wrote). Other theatre credits include On The Town at the Royal Albert Hall, His Girl Friday at the National Theatre, Aunt Dan and Lemon at the Almeida, Lion In The Streets at Hampstead Theatre, True West for Shared Experience, Henry V at the Bristol Old Vic, The Normal Heart at the Royal Court, The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios and Frost/Nixon at the Donmar Warehouse. Shale also appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of C P Taylor's Good. He co-wrote and appeared in the verbatim play Listen, We're Family and adapted and performed the title role in The 2000 Year Old Man by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

Radio

Shale has acted in over 200 BBC Radio plays, recorded Bill Bryson's travel books on the radio and as audiobooks, has won a Sony Award as Best UK Radio Actor and a Writers' Guild Award for his radio dramatisation of Dr. Strangelove in which he also played half a dozen roles. From 2002 to 2004, he wrote and presented Kerry Shale's Listy Show, an eclectic music program on Oneword Radio. He has often been the reader for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

Writing

In addition to writing five one-man stage plays and a number of radio adaptations, Shale has written columns, reviews and sketches for BBC Radio, articles for The Guardian and The Word and a BAFTA-nominated video game Dog's Life. His play The Prince of West End Lane was given a staged reading at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. His Radio 4 comedy-drama The Kubrick Test was broadcast in 2020.[1] His Radio 4 adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl The Yeshiva Boy will be broadcast in 2023.

Video games

Shale has voiced hundreds of video games. According to The Guinness Book of World Records - Gamers' Edition, Shale has provided more voices for a single video game (Dog's Life) than any other actor. He also provide the voice of Carl Ingram in the Hitman trilogy.

Narration

He has narrated many television documentaries for the US and UK. Shale's many audio books include the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child as well as Life of Pi (Reader of the Year, APA Awards), Slumdog Millionaire (Audie Award Winner, Best Male Reader), and The White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker prize. In 2022, he narrated the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki.

Other work

In 2005, he began appearing on the panel of BBC programmes such as Newsnight Review, The Review Show and Radio 4's Saturday Review. He was one of the organizers (and MC) of the monthly London story-telling evening, True Stories Told Live. He was a member of the comedy Improv group People People.

Personal life

Shale is married to Suzanne Shale, a former Oxford University law don, who now works as a specialist in medical and policing ethics.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1983	Yentl	Yeshiva Student
1985	Runaway Train	Dubbing	Voice, Uncredited
1986	Labyrinth	Goblin	Voice
	Little Shop of Horrors	Her Assistant
1987	The Living Daylights	Voice of Necros
	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	MBC Newscaster
1989	Asterix and the Big Fight	Additional Voices	Voice
1996	Jude	Showman
1997	Welcome to Sarajevo	UN Convoy Official
1998	B. Monkey	Texan
	The Misadventures of Margaret	Librarian
1999	RKO 281	Bernard Herrmann
2000	102 Dalmatians	Le Pelt's assistant
2002	Max	Dr. Levi
2003	Code 46	Clinic Doctor
2005	The Jacket	Prosecutor
	Gideon's Daughter	Badalamenti
	The Wedding Date	Clipboard Manager	Uncredited
2006	Manga Latina: Killer on the Loose	Victor La Cruz
2008	Genova	Stephen
2009	Universal Soldier: Regeneration	Dr. Robert Colin
	Hero of the Rails	Thomas and Spencer	Original UK voice
		Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt	US voice
2010	Misty Island Rescue	Diesel (UK) Henry, Gordon, James, Dash, Harold, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt (US)	Voice; direct-to-DVD
	London Boulevard	Lawyer	Uncredited
2011	Day of the Diesels	Diesel (UK) Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt (US) 'Arry, Bert and Sidney	Voice; direct-to-DVD
	Arthur Christmas	UNFITA OPS	Voice
2012	Blue Mountain Mystery	Diesel (UK) Henry, James, Kevin, Sir Topham Hatt, Mr. Percival and some workmen (US)	Voice; direct-to-DVD
	A Fantastic Fear of Everything	Harvey Humphries
	Tad, the Lost Explorer	Tad Stones and Kopponen	Voice
2013	King of the Railway	Diesel (UK) Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt (US)	Voice; direct-to-DVD
	The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Harry S. Truman
	Hello Carter	Tara Evans
2014	Tale of the Brave	Henry, Gordon, James, Kevin and Sir Topham Hatt	US voice; direct-to-DVD
	Blood Moon	Father Domonic
2015	Moonwalkers	Mr. White
	Narcopolis	Martin Fox
	The Cannibal in the Jungle	Peter Kalas
	Thomas (the Tank Engine) & Friends: The Adventure Begins	Henry and Gordon	US voice; direct-to-DVD
	Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure	Henry, Gordon and Kevin
2016	Thomas & Friends: The Great Race	Henry, Gordon and Kevin (US) Diesel and Scruff	Voice; direct-to-DVD
2017	Journey Beyond Sodor	Henry and Gordon (US) Kevin and the Troublesome Trucks
	Final Portrait	Art Dealer
	The Trip to Spain	Matt
2018	Show Dogs	Klaus Hochauser
	Big World! Big Adventures!	Henry, Gordon, Harold and Mr. Percival (US) Diesel and Beau	Voice; direct-to-DVD
2019	Angel Has Fallen	Admiral Paul Sebring
2021	Wrath of Man	Doctor
2022	Batgirl	Mayor Hady

Television

Years	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1981	Sorry!	Gavin	Episode: "The Godfather"
1983	The Comic Strip Presents...	Willy	Episode: "Five Go Mad on Mescalin"
1984	Freud	Otto Rank	Miniseries
1988	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Mr. Beaver	6 episodes
1992	A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia	American Reporter	TV Movie
1993	Cracker	Scene of Crime Expert	Episode: The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1
1994	The Adventure of the Red Circle	Leverton, a Pinkerton (detective agency) detective	Part of the Granada Television series Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series), originally broadcast on ITV on 28 March 1994
1994–96	Budgie the Little Helicopter	Chuck
1996-98	Dennis the Menace	Gnasher	Voice
2002	Wilf the Witch's Dog
2007	Holby City	Dr. Costello	Episode: Paranoid Android
2007	Not Going Out	Toby	Series 2, Episode 5: Art
2007-10	Roary the Racing Car	Big Chris, Tin Top, Big Christine (US)
2010-21	Thomas & Friends	Henry, Gordon, James, Dash, Scruff, Max, Farmer Trotter, Mr. Percival and Sir Lowham Hatt (US) Diesel (US; 2015 onwards / UK), Kevin (UK; "Hasty Hannah" only / US), 'Arry and the Troublesome Trucks, Connor (UK/US; 2020 onwards)	Succeeded by Rob Rackstraw as James (US), Michael Brandon and Martin Sherman as Diesel and Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt
2010	The Trip	Steve's US Agent	2 episodes
2011	Doctor Who	Doctor Renfrew	Episode: Day of the Moon
2011–19	The Amazing World of Gumball	Larry Needlemeyer, Bobert, Leslie, Various Characters
2022	The Creature Cases		Voice
2022	The Sandman	Nimrod	3 episodes
2022	Suspicion	Arnold Myerson
2022	Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	Joe Venice

Video games

Year	Title	Role(s)	Source
1999	Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation	Werner Von Croy
2002	Largo Winch .// Commando SAR	Male Voices
2003	Space Channel 5: Part 2	Fuse	[2]
2004	Dog's Life	Additional voices
	Killzone	ISA Troops	[2]
2008	Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds	Fernando, Shigeki Maruyama, Maru-Chan, Clark	[2]
2010	Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip	Toshi and Xavier	[2]
2011	LittleBigPlanet 2	Lex Luthor	[2]
2012	Deponia	Rufus, Cletus, Argus	[2]
	LittleBigPlanet PS Vita	Lex Luthor
	The Testament of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes
	Chaos on Deponia	Rufus, Cletus, Argus
2013	Lego City Undercover	Marion Dunby
	Puppeteer	Ying Yang and General Dragon	[2]
	Goodbye Deponia	Rufus, Cletus, Argus
2014	Transformers Universe	Derail	[2]
	Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments	Sherlock Holmes
2015	Lego Dimensions	Marion Dunby
2016	Deponia Doomsday	Rufus, Cletus, Argus
	Batman: Arkham VR	Thug 3	[2]
	Steep	Radio DJ Larry Miller	[2]
2017	Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2	Star-Lord
	Xenoblade Chronicles 2	Cressidus and Perceval	[2]
2018	Lego The Incredibles	Additional voices
2019	Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love	The Leader
	Terminator: Resistance	NPCs	[2]
2021	Jurassic World Evolution 2	Radio Presenter
2021	RuneScape	Kerapac, the bound

References

External links

• Official website
• Kerry Shale at IMDb

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