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   Message 230 of 629   
   Gordon Davie to Jerry Kohl   
   Re: Peter Woodthorpe (voice of Pigsy in    
   17 Aug 04 19:12:20   
   
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   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.   
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   Gordon Davie   
   Edinburgh, Scotland   
      
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