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|    Gordon Davie to Jerry Kohl    |
|    Re: Peter Woodthorpe (voice of Pigsy in     |
|    17 Aug 04 19:12:20    |
      XPost: uk.media.tv.sf.misc, uk.media.tv.misc, rec.arts.sf.tv       XPost: alt.tv.kungfu       From: g.davie@btinternet.com              Jerry Kohl wrote:       > Gordon Davie wrote:       >       >> Uthur wrote:       >>>>>>> Peter Woodthorpe, the actor who so famously dubbed the English       >>>>>>> voice of Pigsy in the cult Japanese TV show Monkey, very popular       >>>>>>> in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, passed away on Thursday 12       >>>>>>> August 2004, less than a month after finishing work on the 13       >>>>>>> unseen Monkey episodes.       >>>       >>> That's really sad. He did amazing work in Bakshi's Lord of the       >>> Rings and the BBC radio version. He never got the recognition he       >>> deserved.       >>       >> I've been trying to place him ever since I heard this. It's sad that       >> most people will probably remember him as Del and Rodney's dad in       >> OF&H.       >       > In just that one episode from Christmas 1983?              Which has been repeated several dozen times since.              > I should have thought       > many more people would know him from the role of Max, the phlegmatic       > pathologist in Chief Inspector Morse.              Never watched it, but you may well be right.       --       Gordon Davie       Edinburgh, Scotland              "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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