Andrew Jack (dialect coach)

Andrew Jack was a British dialect coach who worked on over 80 motion pictures.

Early life

Jack was born in London. His father, Stephen Jack, was an actor in film, radio and television.

Career

He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojans in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. He taught Evan Davis to speak with a Nottinghamshire twang. He was known for helping non-British actors to be more intelligible to the audience.
Jack can also be seen in the Star Wars film series portraying Resistance Major Caluan Ematt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He also voiced the character of Moloch in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The final film he was working on at the time of his death was The Batman, which was dedicated to him.

Personal life

Jack was married to Felicity Filmore from 1974 to 1987, and to Paula Jack from 2000 to 2018; both marriages ended in divorce.
Jack's widow Gabrielle Rogers is also a voice, accent and dialect coach who first started working in the film, television and theatre industries as an actor in the 1980s. Rogers and Jack were married in 2019.
Jack is survived by his and Felicity’s children, Katherine b. 1978 and Rupert b. 1982 and two grandchildren.

Death

Jack died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 76 from COVID-19.
His wife Gabrielle Rogers wrote on Twitter:

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Kate & Leopold	John A. Roebling
2009	Sherlock Holmes	Professor Moriarty	Voice
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Caluan Ematt
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Caluan Ematt
2018	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Moloch	Voice
2020	Ascendant	Doctor Thompson	Post-production

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	Whack-O!	School Boy	10 episodes
1959	BBC Sunday-Night Theatre	Boy	Episode: "Against the Stream"
1966	This Man Craig	Waiter	Episode: "A Wise Father"
1968	The Spanish Farm	Lt. Andrews	Episode: "Paris"
1969	Chronicle	Bosham	Episode: "Thomas Becket"
1969	Doctor in the House	Smoothie	Episode: "It's All Go..."
1970	The Black Tulip	Craeke	1 episode
1971	Softly Softly: Task Force	Radley	Episode: "Company Business"

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Caluan Ematt