Roy Hudd

Roy Hudd OBE

Background information
Date of birth:	May 16, 1936 (1936-05-16) (age 71)
Birth location:	Croydon, Surrey
Genre(s):	Radio & TV actor Music hall singer playwright & author
Spouse(s):	Debbie Flitcroft

Roy Hudd, OBE (b. May 16, 1936, Croydon, Surrey) is a British radio and television actor. He is also a playwright, author and music hall singer.

He is best known for his very long-running radio series The News Huddlines and recently for his role as the undertaker Archie Shuttleworth in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street.

Hudd has written several books on music hall and Variety, made music hall records and appeared in live pantomime and variety performances, and is seen by broadcasters as an authority on the subject.

On radio, he stared in the title role in The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes in 1999, and has also given his voice to the roles of Max Quordlepleen in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Phillimore in The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson, an original Sherlock Holmes radio play in the series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002). He appeared as his hero Max Miller in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Pier Pressure in 2006.

Film appearances include the Avarice segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.

He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2003 New Year's Honours List. In 1983 (1982 season), he was awarded the "Best Actor in a Musical" Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for his role in Underneath the Arches, as Bud Flanagan.

In 2004 he launched a new one man show "All My Own Work". It premièred during the National Music Hall and Variety Festival at The Playhouse in Weston-super-Mare and then continued to tour around the UK.

His name is sometimes confused with Rod Hull, who had the puppet Emu. This is referenced in the fifth episode of the second series of The Office.

He has recently appeared in the Hollyoaks spin-off, In the City.

He has also had a long association with the Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service where he is considered an honorary member. In 1994 he officially opened their current studios in the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He is the longstanding President of The British Music Hall Society.

He will next be seen on TV in episodes of New Tricks and Casualty.

External links

Roy Hudd at the Internet Movie Database
BBC Biography/Profile
BBC -- Radio comic Roy Hudd honoured with OBE

References

GRO: JUN 1936 2a 883 CROYDON - Roy Hudd - mmn = Barham

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DATE OF BIRTH	16 May 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Croydon, Surrey
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