Edward Harry Kelsey
Early life and career
Kelsey was born on 4 June 1930 in
Petersfield,
Hampshire, and educated at Churcher's College.
[ Petersfield Post, 'Tributes for Archers actor' p. 9 Wednesday 1 May 2019] In 1954, he joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary
[ Carleton Hobbs Bursary winners at BBC.co.uk, accessed 23 January 2018] He was known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and Baron Silas Greenback in the animated series
Danger Mouse produced by
Cosgrove Hall. He also appeared on such British television programmes as
The Avengers,
Softly, Softly,
The Saint,
Public Eye,
Dempsey and Makepeace,
Z-Cars,
Juliet Bravo,
Doctor Who,
Minder,
Angels,
Casualty,
The Vicar of Dibley,
Reilly, Ace of Spies,
Shoestring,
Wives and Daughters,
Anna of the Five Towns,
Campion,
The Tripods and
EastEnders.
He acted in three Doctor Who stories, as a slave buyer in The Romans, Resno in The Power of the Daleks and Edu in The Creature from the Pit. He voiced Mr. Growbag in (2005), several characters in Cosgrove Hall's Victor and Hugo, The Reluctant Dragon, and The Wind in the Willows (television and film), H.H. Junketbury in The Talking Parcel, Farmer Listener and Forester in The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship and also for the voice of "The Thing" in another Cosgrove Hall production, Truckers, based on a book by Terry Pratchett.
Death
He died of a
heart attack on 23 April 2019 in
Birmingham, West Midlands. He was 88 years old.
Filmography
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