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David Holt (voice actor)

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David Holt
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • writer
Years active1993–present
Websitewww.david-holt.co.uk

David Holt is an English voice actor and writer. He has contributed his voice to a wide variety of children's cartoons.

Career

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Voice acting

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Holt is noted for his role as Vervain in Watership Down as well as the voices for the male animals in Percy the Park Keeper, Oakie Doke and other voices in Oakie Doke, Cowboy, Policeman, farm animals, and Robin Hood in A Town Called Panic, Dad in Angry Kid and Pinky in The Pinky and Perky Show. He has also done other voice work in animation, promos, documentaries, films, television, multi-media, computer games, children's toys, exhibition guides, announcements and audio books. He also has voiced commercials for L'Oreal Kids, Guess Who? and Burger King.[1] He had provided the voice to the UK version of Face from Nick Jr. from 1995 until September 2005, and Moose A. Moose from 2006 to 2010 for Noggin on TMF/VIVA and 2010 to 2013 for Nick Jr. He played the voice of Jack Frost in the film Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island.[2]

Writing

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In his writing career, he has been writing for various radio or television productions like In the Name of the Wee Man, Cold Call, Tales From The Tower, Proof of the Pudding, Medium Rare and Beyond the Gravy.[3]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1993 Zit: The Video All voices Uncredited
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story Additional voices
1996 Achilles Additional voices
1997 Annabelle's Wish Narrator (UK)
1998 Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models Richard D'Oyly Carte
1999 Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar Cacofonix English version
Uncredited
2008 A Fox's Tale Doofus – Knuckles English version
2009 Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva Marco Brock
2010 Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island Jack Frost
2011 Isle of Spagg Inger
Doctor Beez		 Short
2012 The Happy Wanderer Maitre D
2013 The Jungle Book: Return 2 the Jungle Shere Khan Direct-to-video
2019 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Mugg-1N5

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1994 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Hymen
Silvius		 Episode: "As You Like It"
1995 Oakie Doke Oakie Doke
Male voices		 All Episodes
1996 Testament: The Bible in Animation Captain Episode: "Creation and the Flood"
The Adventures of the Garden Fairies All voices
1996–1999 Percy the Park Keeper Male animals
1997 Brambly Hedge Teasel Toadflax
Additional voices		 Episode: "Spring Story"
Soul Music Mr. Clete
Additional voices
Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree Angry Pixie
Additional voices
1998 Wyrd Sisters Additional voices
1999 Little Monsters Fathers
Additional male characters
Lavender Castle Captain Thrice
Sproggle
Additional voices
1999-2000 Pablo the Little Red Fox Pablo
1999–2001 Watership Down Vervain
Bluesky
Boxwood
Darkling
2000 A Town Called Panic Cowboy
Policeman
Farm animals
Robin Hood
Additional voices
Sheeep Hubert
Gotcha
Spike
Captain Bleat
P.C. Butt
Duncan Shears
The Magic Key Floppy
Fetch the Vet George Moffat
Violet Blush
Lionel Froggatt
2000–2003 Maggie and the Ferocious Beast Hamilton Hocks
The Ferocious Beast
Rudy (UK)
2001–2003 Oswald Henry (UK)
Leo (UK)
2001 The Wheels on the Bus Beep and male characters
2002–2004 Engie Benjy

Farmer Fred
Fisherman Finn
Messenger Mo

2003 The Day Britain Stopped Dominic Steel (Safety Compliance Manager, Heathrow) Mockumentary
2004 Who Do You Think You Are Dad TV movie
2004–2008 Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends Holley
Gus
Stinky
Other voices (UK)
2005 Muffin the Mule Muffin
Willie
Morris		 All episodes
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs Steggy (UK)
2005-2013 Moose and Zee Moose (UK)
2006 Rudi and Trudi Rudi English version
Pulling Bingo Caller Episode #1.1
The Likeaballs Laughaball
2006–2007 The Magic Roundabout Dougal, Brian Main role
2008–2009 The Pinky and Perky Show Pinky
Additional voices
2010 The Jungle Book Shere Khan
2010–2014 Alphablocks Additional voices Main Role
2011 Quiff and Boot Gene
The Hundred		 TV movie
2011-2015 Team Umizoomi Bot (UK)
2015 Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave Hatty the Hamster Main role
2015 Bob the Builder Alfred (UK/US)(Season 1 Only)
Tread (UK)
Young Bob		 2015 reboot, (Uncredited)
2016 Tree Fu Tom Zigzoo, Chezz, and Muru
2016-2021 Numberblocks Seven, Nine, Fourteen, Seventeen, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Six, Thirty-One, Thirty-Five, Thirty-Six, Seventy, Ninety, Nine Hundred, Seven Thousand and Ninety Thousand
2019 Yes We Can Sam McBratney book - Narrator
2019-2020 YooHoo to the Rescue Lemmee (UK)
2020 The Hundred Decker Bus Mike Smith book - Narrator
Go! Go!/Toot-Toot Cory Carson Pappy, Old Car (UK) (Netflix)

Video games

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Year Title Role
1996 Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Additional voices
1998 Creatures 2 Narrator[4]
2000 Sheep Additional voices
2004 Fable
Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King
2006 Thomas & Friends: Special Delivery Narrator
2010 Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails
2011 Ni no Kuni Additional voices
2013 Puppeteer General Snake
General Sheep
2019 Total War: Warhammer III Eshin Sorcerer
2023 Disney Illusion Island Mazzy/Grayzar[5]

References

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  1. ^ "David Holt :: Voices :: London-based Voiceover Artist, Actor and Writer". Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  2. ^ "David Holt," Behind the Voice Actors, www.behindthevoiceactors.com/
  3. ^ "David Holt :: Writing :: London-based Voiceover Artist, Actor and Writer". Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Holt hosted at ImgBB". ImgBB. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  5. ^ https://twitter.com/davidholtactor/status/1795203738887459327 [bare URL]
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