Roy Evans
Acting • Born 1930-01-10
Biography
Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder. Born in Fishponds, he was adopted by Edmund Evans and Clarice Augusta Georgina May Evans (née Gowen). As a teenager, Evans went to London to become a dancer and actor. His dancing work includes visiting the Nottingham Theatre Royal with the International Ballet Company in 1951, gaining a long run in A Girl Called Jo at Piccadilly Theatre followed by a six-month engagement as principal male ballet dancer with the Swedish national ballet company. In film he is particularly known for roles in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Oliver! (1968), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968), Where's Jack? (1969), Loving Memory (1971), Dark Places (1973), Jabberwocky (1977), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Company of Wolves (1984).
Filmography
74 credits
The Doctor and the Devils
Movie • 1985
Sewerman
Imaginary Friends
Movie • 1982
George
Flyaway
Movie • 1972
The House That Dripped Blood
Movie • 1971
Les Misérables
Movie • 1978
Brevet
Loving Memory
Movie • 1970
Man
Dark Places
Movie • 1973
Baxter
Hamlet
Movie • 1990
The Players
The Big Sleep
Movie • 1978
Deliveryman (uncredited)
Death of a Son
Movie • 1989
Undertaker
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Movie • 2003
Ted Prendergast
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1980
Cabman
Jabberwocky
Movie • 1977
Ratman
The Company of Wolves
Movie • 1984
Eyepatch
Schalcken the Painter
Movie • 1979
Coachman
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Movie • 1967
Vampire at Ball (uncredited)
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Movie • 1973
Gyrth
Where's Jack?
Movie • 1969
Mr Hind
Oliver!
Movie • 1968
Pauper - Workhouse
Coming Out
Movie • 1979
Charlie Rose
Lost In London
Movie • 1985
Taxi Driver
Return to Waterloo
Movie • 1984
Mortuary Attendant
No Hard Feelings
Movie • 1976
soldier
Global Conspiracy?
Movie • 2004
Talfryn Pritchard
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Movie • 1973
Bert
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Movie • 1974
Miner
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Movie • 1966
Trantis
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 1977
Night Owl
The Blood Beast Terror
Movie • 1968
2nd Porter
The Gathering
Movie • 2003
The Gathering
Half a Sixpence
Movie • 1967
Pub Character
A Ghost of a Chance
Movie • 1967
Driver
Restoration
Movie • 1995
Fleeing Man
Baal
Movie • 1982
2nd Cab Driver
Border
Movie • 1988
Lodger
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Travelling Player
Santa Claus: The Movie
Movie • 1985
Village Leader (uncredited)
The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids
Movie • 1968
Street Cleaner
The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket
Movie • 1969
Man Poke by Stick
Foreign Body
Movie • 1986
Newspaper vendor
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Movie • 1976
Major Domo (uncredited)
Deathday
Movie • 1971
Postman
From a Bird's Eye View
TV • 1970
Tall Undertaker
Minder
TV • 1979
Elderly Man
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Bert
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Miner
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Caretaker
Campion
TV • 1989
Branch
Super Gran
TV • 1985
Roland Rattray
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Dillon
Secret Army
TV • 1977
Belgian Farmer
Blake's 7
TV • 1978
Slave
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Abel, a Peasant
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Dumb Abel, a Peasant
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Abel, a Bilind Beggar
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV • 1985
Sims
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Orderly (uncredited)
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Joe Lomax
Worzel Gummidge
TV • 1979
Whelk-stall owner
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Trantis
Around the World in 80 Days
TV • 1989
Shirley Rose Engineer
Dick Turpin
TV • 1979
Fellowes
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Undertaker
Budgie
TV • 1971
Reggie
Londoners
TV • 1965
Second Clerk
Johnny and the Dead
TV • 1995
Boatman
Andy Capp
TV • 1988
Workman
Warship
TV • 1973
Cook Meadows
Ellis Island
TV • 1984
Stage Door Guard
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Mike
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Churl
Poldark
TV • 1975
Nick Vigus
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Coachman
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Coachman