Nigel Lambert

Born: 1944-05-11

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.[1] 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,[2] as well as being a member of Hatch End Players.[3] 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


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as Young German Solider (uncredited)
Released: 1968-12-04

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in...

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Scream and Scream Again

as Ken Sparten
Released: 1970-02-02

A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to...

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Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

as Hardin
Released: 1980-09-20

Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis,...

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Crimetime

as (Voice)
Released: 1996-08-01

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

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Henry VIII

as Sir Thomas Lovell
Released: 1979-02-25

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen...

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The Boys in Blue

as Estate Agent
Released: 1982-09-20

Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of...

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Unreported Incident

as Bill
Released: 1988-02-23

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish...

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Funny Money

as Vernon Birtwhistle
Released: 1982-01-08

Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and...

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Space Station Milton Keynes

as Cinema Voice
Released: 1985-03-03

'It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of...

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Steps Back

as Older Boy
Released: 1973-05-14

When Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Bergerac

as Dr. Stevens
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Doctor Who

as Hardin
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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The Avengers

as Doctor
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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Heartbeat

as Investigator
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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The BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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UFO

as Moonbase Operative
First aired: 1970-09-16

A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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The Upper Hand

as Nigel
First aired: 1990-05-01

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and...

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The Onedin Line

as Tranter
First aired: 1971-10-15

The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was...

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The Adventures of Paddington Bear

as Mr. Reginald Curry
First aired: 1997-06-14

The Adventures of Paddington Bear was a Canadian/French animated children's television series....

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The Main Chance

as Eric Anderson
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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Blake's 7

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-01-02

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran...

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Out of the Unknown

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-10-04

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by...

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Secret Army

as Wing Commander
First aired: 1977-09-07

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...

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Secret Army

as Tony Newman
First aired: 1977-09-07

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...

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Look Around You

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-10-10

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane....

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Look Around You

as Narrator
First aired: 2002-10-10

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane....

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The Phoenix and the Carpet

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-12-29

Adaptation of E Nesbit’s story about an Edwardian family in London, who experience a series of...

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Married for Life

as Maitre D'
First aired: 1996-03-05

In 1996, the UK production company Carlton Television produced Married for Life, a seven-episode...

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Shillingbury Tales

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-01-06

Shillingbury Tales was a British television sitcom comedy-drama series made by ATV for ITV and...

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Kessler

as Otto Dehmel
First aired: 1981-11-13

Drama series about the attempts to unmask Ludwig Kessler, the fictional head of the Gestapo in...

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Cuffy

as Rev. Norris
First aired: 1983-03-13

Cuffy was a British sitcom from 1983. It spawned off from the 1980-1981 ATV comedy-drama...

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