Garrick Hagon

Garrick Hagon is a British-Canadian actor. He is known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message. He was the rebel leader Ky in the Doctor Who serial The Mutants, and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's The Archers.

Early life and career

Hagon was born on September 27, 1939, in London and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended UTS and Trinity College. He acted with Alec Guinness in Richard III at the Stratford Festival, where he played for seven seasons and won the Tyrone Guthrie Award in 1963. He guest-starred in the episode The River in the CBC television series The Forest Rangers in 1964. After studying for a spell with the Royal Court Theatre Studio in London, Hagon then acted with Prospect Productions, in many repertory theatres, in the West End in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and at the Royal National Theatre in After The Fall.
As a voice actor, he has been heard in many films and television series, including the UK dub of Star Fleet/X-Bomber, the Manga Entertainment U.K. dubbed versions of the Lupin III films, The Secret of Mamo and Goodbye Lady Liberty, and in Akira Kurosawa's Ran. His voice is featured in the video game, Divinity II: Ego Draconis and he has recorded over 150 audiobooks for major UK publishers. Hagon has also directed over 100 audiobook recordings, including Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother read by Ian McKellen, and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
In the original version of Star Wars: A New Hope, Hagon's role as Biggs Darklighter, Red 3, came to an early but heroic end in the attack on the Death Star in the film's climactic battle scene. In the 2011 Blu-ray release of the Star Wars films, Biggs's establishing scene at Anchorhead on Tatooine can be seen in full along with the characters of Fixer and Camie, played by Anthony Forrest and Koo Stark, respectively. Because of his performance as Biggs, Hagon has been invited to several sci-fi conventions and inducted into "Rebel Legions" and "501st Garrisons" - two Star Wars fandom groups - around the world.
Hagon's film roles include: Dad in Tim Burton's Batman, Ammar in Moustapha Akkad's The Message, CIA Director Wilson in Tony Scott's Spy Game, Dr. Mewling in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, Fr. Loughton in Xie Jin's The Opium War, Lt. Rafferty in Richard Attenborough's A [Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far], the British General in Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, Eros in Charlton Heston's Antony and Cleopatra, Jack Ives in Michael Pressman's Some Kind of Hero, and the American doctor in Olivier Dahan's La Vie en rose. In 2006, he appeared in an episode of The [Line of Beauty (TV series)|The Line of Beauty].
In 2012, Hagon appeared in Doctor Who series 7 episode 3, "A Town Called Mercy". He also appeared in the video game Batman: Arkham Knight as Henry Adams.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Doctor Who	Ky	6 episodes
1972–73	The Adventurer	Gavin Jones	10 episodes
1973	Moonbase 3	Bruno Ponti	3 episodes
1973	Thriller	Peter	Episode: "The Colour of Blood"
1974	Colditz	Lt. Jim Phipps	2 episodes
1975–76	Couples	Gary	9 episodes
1976	Z-Cars	Clown	Episode: "Kidnap"
1978	Return of the Saint	Abdul Hakim	Episode: "One Black September"
1978	Lillie	Bury Dasent	Miniseries
1980	Armchair Thriller	Walters	3 episodes
1980	Oppenheimer	Frank Oppenheimer	Miniseries
1983	Philip Marlowe, Private Eye	Denny	Episode: "Smart Aleck Kill"
1987	A Perfect Spy	Grant Lederer	Miniseries
1988	War and Remembrance	Sam Jones	Miniseries
1990–91	Moomin	Hemulen	77 episodes
1992	Love Hurts	Jeff Saganski	2 episodes
1992	Tropical Heat	Stevens	Episode: "Twice as Dead"
1993	The Chief	OIM Bergholtz	Episode: "A Long Cold Lonely Winter"
1994	Scarlett	Samuel	Miniseries
1994	Tokyo Babylon	Shinji Nagumo	English dub
1996	Dalziel and Pascoe	Mr. Bergmann	Episode: "An Autumn Shroud"
2001	Legend of the Dragon Kings	Kengo Takabayashi	Voice
2003	Cambridge Spies	Klaus Fuchs	Miniseries
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Joseph Frady	Episode: "The Seed of Cunning"
2006	The Line of Beauty	Morden Lipscome	Miniseries
2006	The Eagle	Canino	2 episodes
2012	Doctor Who	Abraham	Episode: "A Town Called Mercy"
2015	Wallander	Steven Wilson	Episode: "The Troubled Man"
2016	The Crown	John Foster Dulles	Episode: "Scientia Potentia Est"
2017–19	The Amazing World of Gumball	Mayor of Elmore/Bernie, Superintendent Evil	5 episodes

Video game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive	Doc McCoy
2005	Pac-Man World 3	Ancient Hero
2011	Operation Flashpoint: Red River	Additional Voices
2014	Randal's Monday	Bum
2015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Henry Adams
2016	Deponia Doomsday	Vincent
2017	Augmented Empire	Hartman
2017	Horizon Zero Dawn	Kaeluf/Kindiv
2018	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	Enoi/High Priest Kasu