Roy Evans

Known for ActingBorn 1930-01-10 (age 96)Bristol, England, UK

Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder. Born in Fishponds, he was adopted by Edmund Evans and Clarice Augusta Georgina May Evans (née Gowen). As a teenager, Evans went to London to become a dancer and actor. His dancing work includes visiting the Nottingham Theatre Royal with the International Ballet Company in 1951, gaining a long run in A Girl Called Jo at Piccadilly Theatre followed by a six-month engagement as principal male ballet dancer with the Swedish national ballet company. In film he is particularly known for roles in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Oliver! (1968), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968), Where's Jack? (1969), Loving Memory (1971), Dark Places (1973), Jabberwocky (1977), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Company of Wolves (1984).Read more

Movies & web series

Doctor Who: The Green Death

Border

The Elephant Man

Blackadder

Cribb

M*A*S*H

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

Doctor Who

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Secret Army

Dick Turpin

Where's Jack?

A Ghost Story for Christmas

Blake's 7

Global Conspiracy?

Les Misérables

Screen Two

Minder

Budgie

Omnibus

Theatre 625

Return of the Saint

Murder Most Horrid

Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood

Oliver!

Flyaway

Return to Waterloo

Poldark

Around the World in 80 Days

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Hamlet

Johnny and the Dead

Dempsey and Makepeace

Warship

Lost In London

A Ghost of a Chance

Super Gran

The Company of Wolves

Santa Claus: The Movie

The House That Dripped Blood

The Doctor and the Devils

The Hour of the Pig

Restoration

Worzel Gummidge

Campion

Van der Valk

Andy Capp

The Prince and the Pauper

MAS*H