Timothy Charles Whitnall (born 27 June 1961) is an English actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is known for playing Angelo in the long-running

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series ''

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'' and narrating the BBC children's TV programme ''

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'' from 1997 to 2001. As a writer, he has won a BAFTA and an

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for his work on TV movie ''Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story'' and play ''

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''. He is also a voice actor, providing voices on television shows such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Career

Whitnall began his career in West End musical ''

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'' in 1977 after winning the role in an open call audition. has starred in many West End musicals including '' Grease'', ''

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'', and ''Good Rockin' Tonight''. After making TV appearances for the musicals he was involved in, he began a career in television - presenting (and writing for) the BBC Schools series, "The Music Arcade" (with

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), "Music Time", "Time and Tune", "Music Workshop", and "Let's Sing". He also began making appearances as an actor, playing Jake in ITV children's drama ''

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'' and Paul in ''

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'' episode ''Not for the Likes of Us''. Whitnall is also known for providing many voice-overs and vocals for TV commercials, animations, and jingles. From the late 1980s to the channel's demise in 2000, he was an announcer on

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, also providing the voice to the station's early 1990s mascot Link Anchorman. He was also the voice for Woolworths mascot Keith the Alien in 1998. In 1990, he succeeded

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in the role of alien Angelo in Children's sci-fi sitcom

. He portrayed the character for ten series, until the show's end in 2000. Whitnall's theatre play ''The Sociable Plover'', first performed at

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in 2005, was made into a feature film by Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films (re-titled as ''The Hide'') and received its UK première on

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in February 2009. Following its screen release at the ICA Cinema, London, the film was released on DVD in January 2010. For this work, Whitnall was nominated for Best First Feature Length Screenplay category in the 2010 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Awards. Whitnall's next play ''

'' – a tribute to the late comedian

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– won a Fringe First Award for 'innovation and excellence in new writing' at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show opened at London's Duchess Theatre the following December and toured the UK through 2010. The piece was nominated in two separate categories in the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards and won the 'Best Entertainment' category. In 2012,

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screened Whitnall's 90-minute drama ''Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story'', which examined and celebrated the life of

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. It was directed by James Strong, produced by Paul Frift and starred

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and Katherine Kelly. For it, Whitnall won the Breakthrough Talent Award in the 2013 BAFTA Television Craft Awards. During 2014, Whitnall joined the cast of the CGI version of the British TV series ''

'', providing the voices of the characters Timothy,

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, Mike, Jerome, Oliver the Excavator and the UK version of Max.

Personal life

Whitnall lives in

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with his partner, Anna Murphy, with whom he has a production company, Feather Productions Ltd.

Filmography

Actor

Television

Stage

Film

Video games

Screenwriter

Film

Television

Stage

Discography

*''Elvis - The Original Cast Albums'' (1978) *''20 Years On 77-97'' (with Darrel Higham & The Enforcers)(1997) *''Even Warren Beatty'' (with

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) (2002)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* *Tim Whitnall o
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