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'', where he voiced the greedy butler Edgar Balthazar (his only voice role); ''

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''; and

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'', playing Thompson. An early innovator at the

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, RCA, alongside

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s, before it was a recognized art form. At the RCA he edited ARK magazine in 1958 and was president of the college's Theatre Group. He had a joint exhibition with Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1960. He also collaborated in a pre-''

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and

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, called ''

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''. He also made theatrical and television appearances in, among other shows, ''

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,'' '' Not Only... But Also'' and '' The Establishment''. He won the Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York in 1968 for his work as a stand-up comedian. Maude-Roxby has also worked with masks and improvisation for over 40 years and was a co-creator of improvisational games developed at the

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, and then as "Theatre Machine" with

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. In 1992 Maude-Roxby starred as imprisoned alien Mercantor in the experimental BBC1 Saturday morning children's magazine show Parallel 9.

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* * 1930 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Male actors from London English male film actors English male television actors English male voice actors English performance artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art {{England-actor-stub