Simon Greenall

Simon James Greenall^[1] (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor, presenter and voice artist. Among his television appearances are as the Caretaker on Trapped!,^[2] Richard in Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married,^[3] and as Michael the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programs and films.^[2][4] He also voices Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts franchise, the twins in the Shaun the Sheep films, and Aleksandr Orlov and Sergei the meerkats in the comparethemarket.com adverts.^[2][5]

Simon Greenall
Born	Simon James Greenall (1958-01-03) 3 January 1958 (age 67) Longtown, Cumberland, England
Occupations	Actor presenter producer writer voice artist
Years active	1986–present
Notable work	Trapped! Octonauts

Early life

Greenall was born on 3 January 1958 in Longtown, Cumberland.^[6][7] He attended the Manchester School of Theatre at the same time as Steve Coogan, who was two years below him and would later become a repeat collaborator.^[8]

Career

Greenall has appeared in a number of television shows, shorts, movies, and video games. Earlier roles include as policemen in Life Without George (1987), One Foot in the Grave (1990),^[2][6] and Between the Lines (1993);^[3] as various characters in Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round (1998),^[6] Pond Life (2000),^{[citation needed]} and Monkey Dust (2003);^[6] and as the voices of Mr. Bump, Mr. Grumpy, and Mr. Happy in The Mr. Men Show (2008). He voiced Murgo in the Fable video game franchise and replaced Cam Clarke in Final Fantasy XIV as the voice of Lord Lolorito, in addition to his regular voiceover role the dragon Nidhogg.^{[citation needed]} In the 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters", he played Mr. Skinner.^[2]

Greenall has also starred on the BBC Radio shows On the Blog, Missing Hancocks, and The Simon Day Show.^[6] He won Celebrity Mastermind in 2015 with the specialist subject D-Day landings^{[citation needed]} and was credited as co-executive producer of the 2011 film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin.^[9] He currently voices Aleksandr Orlov the meerkat in the comparethemarket.com adverts.^[10]

When Grant Bovey was training for a BBC charity boxing match against Ricky Gervais, Greenall was one of Bovey's sparring partners.^{[citation needed]} In 1995, he won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards honour in the TV - Light Entertainment category along with Harry Enfield, Geoffrey Perkins, Harry Thompson, Paul Whitehouse, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman and Kay Stonham for Harry Enfield's Television Programme.^[11] In 2014, he was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Cumbria.^[7]

Selected works

Television

Year(s)	Title	Role	No. of episodes	Ref
1993	Newman and Baddiel in Pieces	Various characters	8	[6]
1994–1997	Harry Enfield and Chums	Gas Man, Man at Political Event	2	[6]
1997–1998	Armstrong and Miller	Various roles	13	[2]
	Alas Smith & Jones		12	[3][6]
1997–2002	I'm Alan Partridge	Michael, Robert Moon		[4][3]
1998	Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round	Various roles	1	[6]
	Barking		5	[3][6]
	Big Train		2	[6]
1999	Boyz Unlimited	Benny Van Hoere	3	[6]
1999–2000	Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married	Richard	16	[3]
2000	Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show	Various roles	12	[6]
	Kiss Me Kate	Colin	1	[6]
2001	Time Gentlemen Please	Arnold Poncett		[6]
	World of Pub	Various roles	6	[6]
	The Armando Iannucci Shows		1	[6]
2003	Monkey Dust		18	[6]
	Fortysomething	Ashley Ramp	1	[6]
2003–2005	Trevor's World of Sport	VDK, Lance	3	[6]
2004	Swiss Toni	Peter Gellward	1	[6]
	Doc Martin	Philip Rowe		[2][6]
2005	Funland	Ken Cryer	2	[3][6]
	Don't Watch That, Watch This	Various roles		[6]
	Bromwell High	Martin Jackson, Iqbal Kandallah, Additional voices	13	[6]
2006	Doctor Who	Mr. Skinner	1	[2]
	Lead Balloon	Adam Greene		[3][6]
	Popetown	Cardinal Three (voice)	10	[3][6]
2006–2008	Star Stories	Narrator (voice)	7	[6]
2007	Saxondale	Malcolm	1	[3][6]
2007–2010	Trapped!	Caretaker	52	[2]
2008	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Ian Farringdon	1	[3]
	The Wrong Door	Various roles	6	[3][6]
	Brain-Jitsu	Sensei	25	[12]
	No Heroics	Isobar	1	[6]
2009	Horne & Corden	Various roles		[6]
2009–2011	The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson		19	[3][6]
2010	Life of Riley	Mr. Smith	1	[6]
2010–2011	Pete Versus Life	Colin King	11	[3][6]
2010–2012	Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul	Various roles	9	[3]
2010–2016	Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge	Caller (voice)	12	[6]
2010–2017	Octonauts	Captain Barnacles	122	[5]
2011	PhoneShop	The Greeter	1	[6]
	Comedy Blaps	Various characters	3	[13]
2012	Spy	Quiz host	1	[6]
2013	Common Ground	Peter the Polish Park Keeper	2	[6]
	It's Kevin	Various roles		[3][6]
	Drifters	Davide	1	[6]
	Hebburn	Bob Muirfield	2	[6]
2014	Inspector George Gently	Peter Turner	1	[2][3]
	W1A	Nigel Trescott		[14][2][3][6]
	Cardinal Burns	Various roles	3	[3][6]
	Fried	Derek	1	[6]
2015	The Keith Lemon Sketch Show	Narrator		[6]
	Car Share	Dave Thompson (voice)		[6]
	Hoff the Record	Radovan Merkadic		[6]
2016	Plebs	Announcer		[6]
2015–2016	Newzoids	Various roles	12	[6]
2016	The Windsors		2	[6]
2017	Benidorm	Neville	5	[6]
	Ill Behaviour	Liam's Dad	2	[6]
2017–2020	The Other One	Colin	3	[6]
2020	Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom	Various roles	20	[6]
	Mister Winner	Racing Commentator	1	[6]
2022	Meet the Richardsons	Simon Greenall		[6]
	The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe	Coroner		[15]

Film

Year(s)	Title	Role	Ref
1999	Tube Tales	Business Man (segment: "Mouth")	[3]
2002	My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117	Father in Church	[6]
2003	Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge	Roy from Caistor-St-Edmonds (voice)	[6]
2004	Wimbledon	Chauffeur	[3][6]
2007	Biffovision	BW	[6]
2010	D.O.A	Priest	[6]
2011	Holy Flying Circus	Barry Atkins, Pub Landlord	[3][6]
	Pythagasaurus	Pythagasaurus (voice)	[6]
2012	Acts of Godfrey	DCI Stevens	[3]
	The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas	Various roles (voices)	[6]
2013	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa	Michael	[4][3][6]
2014	Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s	Various roles	[6]
2015	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Twins (voices)	[2][6]
2018	Early Man	Eemak, Thongo (voices)	[5][6]
2021	Octonauts: The Ring of Fire	Captain Barnacles (voice)
	Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas	Additional voices
	Hilda and the Mountain King
2022	The Lovebox in Your Living Room	Various roles	[6]

Video games

Year(s)	Title	Role	Ref
1997	Tomb Raider II	Claudio, Fabio, Brother Chan Barkhang (voices)	[2]
2000	Shogun: Total War
	Team Buddies
	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition
2001	Original War
2002	Hard Hitter Tennis	Bob Conner (voice)
2004	Future Tactics: The Uprising
	Fable	Fisherman (voice)
	Dragon Quest VIII	Additional voices
2005	Ape Escape 3	Monkey Blue (voice)
	MediEvil: Resurrection	Dirk Steadfast, Help Gargoyles, Trapped Villager (voices)
	Battalion Wars	Kommandant Ubel
	Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction
2006	Medieval II: Total War
2007	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
	Battalion Wars 2	Kommandant Ubel (voice)
2008	Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
	Fable II
2009	Killzone 2	Additional Helghast Voices (voice)
	BattleForge
	Battlefield Heroes	Royals and Nationals (voices)
	Battlefield 1943	Newscaster
	Risen	Luis, Adan, Dargel
2010	Final Fantasy XIV	Lolorito
	Fable III
2011	Stronghold 3
2013	Puppeteer	Captain Gaff (voice)
2014	LittleBigPlanet 3	Zom-Zom the Far Out (voice)
2015	Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward	Lolorito, Nidhogg (voices)
2017	Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood	Lolorito (voice)
2018	Forza Horizon 4	Hans Liebold (voice)
2019	Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions
2020	Sackboy: A Big Adventure	Zom Zom (voice)