80
Age
14
Movies
22
TV Shows
5.6
Rating
Nigel Lambert (11 May 1944 – 11 September 2024) was an English voice actor. He is best known for his role as the narrator of the first series of the BBC comedy series Look Around You, as well as Merle Ambrose in the MMORPG Wizard101.
80
Died at
14
Movies
22
TV Shows
5.6
Avg Rating
Nigel Lambert (11 May 1944 – 11 September 2024) was an English voice actor. He is best known for his role as the narrator of the first series of the BBC comedy series Look Around You, as well as Merle Ambrose in the MMORPG Wizard101.
1992
Nigel Lambert (11 May 1944 – 11 September 2024) was an English voice actor. He is best known for his role as the narrator of the first series of the BBC comedy series Look Around You, as well as Merle Ambrose in the MMORPG Wizard101.
Lambert was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex on 11 May 1944. Acting from the age of 12, Lambert began his stage education at Arts Educational Trust School, Piccadilly. After a brief spell at the Italia Conti Stage School, he joined a repertory company in Cork before completing his training at RADA. This was following by working in repertory theatre in Ireland and Northampton, as well as the Royal National Theatre. He then worked in radio and television, as well as being a member of Hatch End Players.
He appeared in the 1967 The Avengers episode entitled "The 50,000 pound Breakfast" as the second doctor.
Lambert played the role of athlete Ken Sparten in the 1969 SF/horror film Scream and Scream Again, and in more recent years provides the voice of Mr Curry in The Adventures of Paddington Bear television series and also Papa in the Dolmio pasta sauce puppet commercials.
He also appeared as Operative Chris Granger in the UFO episode "Computer Affair" and contributed extensively to the magazine partwork Story Teller published by Marshall Cavendish, consisting of a fortnightly magazine and a cassette tape featuring children's stories.
Lambert recorded over 50 BBC audiobooks.
In 1980, he played the character of Hardin in the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive, in addition to providing the voice of the Priest Triangle in the 2021 episodes War of the Sontarans and Once, Upon Time. He played the computer operative in the first episode of Blake's 7, The Way Back (1978).
On 11 September 2024, it was announced that Lambert had died at the age of 80
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 11, 1944
Died
September 11, 2024
Birthplace
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
The Boys in Blue
1982
Henry VIII
1979
Calcium
2001
Where Eagles Dare
1968
Space Station Milton Keynes
1985
Crimetime
1996
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980
Funny Money
1982
Doctor Who: Thin Ice
2013
Scream and Scream Again
1970
Unreported Incident
1988
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
1965
Steps Back
1973
The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
1965
Doctor Who
2005
Doctor Who
1963
Heartbeat
1992
The Avengers
1961
Bergerac
1981
The Bill
1984
UFO
1970
Blake's 7
1978
The Upper Hand
1990
Secret Army
1977
Secret Army
1977
The Main Chance
1969
The Adventures of Paddington Bear
1997
The Onedin Line
1971
Look Around You
2002
Out of the Unknown
1965
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1976
Shillingbury Tales
1980
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
Kessler
1981
+ 2 more TV shows