Seán Barrett (actor)


Seán Justin Barrett is a British actor.

Career

Television and film appearances

Barrett began his career as a child actor, appearing on BBC children's television and in films such as Bang! You're Dead, Dunkirk, Sink The Bismark, A Cry from the Streets, War and Peace, The Genie and Four Sided Triangle.
Years later he made many appearances in television and films including ITV Television Playhouse, Z-Cars, The Wednesday Play, Cast a Giant Shadow, Emergency Ward 10, Chronicle, Armchair Theatre, Hell Boats, Moonstrike, Attack on the Iron Coast, Softly, Softly, BBC Play of the Month, Paul of Tarsus, Tales of the Unexpected, Father Ted, Holby City, Brush Strokes, Minder, Poldark, Noah's Ark and Theatre 625.

Voice actor and narrator

In 1968, Barrett was asked to join BBC Radio Drama by Ronald Mason.
In the mid-1970s Barrett was cast in the BBC Radio series of George Simenon's Inspector Maigret novels as Maigret's subordinate, Inspector Janvier. He has performed the voices of Asterix, Caius Tiddlius, Fulliautomatix, Roman Ghost, Cylindric, Mannikinpix, Gladiator Trainer and Jailer in the English version of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, Tik-Tok in Return to Oz, a Goblin in Labyrinth, Big Mac and other characters in TUGS, Thadius Vent's soothsayer Goodtooth in Oscar's Orchestra, Melchoir in the English dubbed version of the Lapitch the Little Shoemaker TV series, Roly the Pineapple in the English version of The Fruities and UrSu the Dying Master and UrZah the Ritual-Guardian in The Dark Crystal as well as additional characters in two video games The Feeble Files and Viking: Battle for Asgard. He also provided the voice for Captain Orion in Star Fleet, the English version of the 1980s Japanese puppet series X-Bomber.
He also narrated Fair Ground!, Timewatch, People's Century and Dark Towers for BBC, dubbed voices in many anime films such as Roujin Z, Cyber City Oedo 808 and Dominion: Tank Police and has done voices for several audiobooks and radio stations.
In 1996, he was the narrator for the Channel 4 documentary series, Black Box. The series primarily concentrated on commercial aviation accidents, and the investigations related to them.
Barrett also worked as part of an ADR Loop Group on Aardman's animated film Flushed Away, a voice director on Lapitch the Little Shoemaker and a dialogue director on The Fruities. He has also narrated episodes of the BBC TV series People's Century and Dancing in the Street, as well as a number of BBC nature documentaries in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2011, he voiced Andre of Astora, Petrus of Thorolund and Ingward in Dark Souls. He returned to voice Darkdiver Grandahl in Dark Souls II, and later reprised his role as Andre of Astora in Dark Souls III, as well as voicing Holy Knight Hodrick. In 2017, he voiced the Titan Azurda in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and in 2018, reprised the role for Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country.
He has voiced the first nine books of Mick Herron's "Slough House" series about Jackson Lamb's team.

Record sleeve

In 1985, the rock band The Smiths used a still of Barrett as a teenager in the 1958 film Dunkirk for the sleeve of their hit single ''How Soon Is Now?''

Filmography

Film

Television

Animation

Video games

Audiobooks

His Dark Materials – Lord Asriel/ Iorek ByrnisonBleak House by Charles Dickens – One of two narrators with Teresa GallagherBarnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens – NarratorTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky – NarratorThe Holy Qur'an translated by Wahiduddin Khan – NarratorMuhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings – NarratorThe Redeemer by Jo Nesbø – NarratorThe Snowman by Jo Nesbø – NarratorThe Leopard by Jo Nesbø – NarratorThe Bat by Jo Nesbø – NarratorPolice by Jo Nesbø – NarratorPerfume by Patrick Suskind – NarratorThe Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman – NarratorOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham -NarratorA Passion for Killing by Barbara Nadel – NarratorMolloy by Samuel Beckett – NarratorMalone Dies by Samuel Beckett – NarratorThe Unnamable by Samuel Beckett – NarratorLennox by Craig Russell – NarratorThe Long Glasgow Kiss by Craig Russell – NarratorThe Deep Dark Sleep by Craig Russell – NarratorDead Men and Broken Hearts by Craig Russell – NarratorThe Second World War by Antony Beevor – NarratorBerlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor – NarratorArnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 by Antony Beevor – NarratorArdennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor – NarratorThe Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor – NarratorSecret Warriors by Taylor Downing – NarratorToward the Flame by Dominic Lieven – Narrator Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore – NarratorWatching you by Michael Robotham- NarratorThe Age of Iron Trilogy by Angus Watson – NarratorHarlequin by Bernard Cornwell – NarratorClose your eyes by Michael Robotham – NarratorWest of West Trilogy by Angus Watson- NarratorSlow Horses by Mick Herron – NarratorDead Lions by Mick Herron – NarratorThe List by Mick Herron – NarratorNobody Walks by Mick Herron – NarratorReal Tigers by Mick Herron – NarratorSpook Street by Mick Herron – NarratorLondon Rules by Mick Herron – NarratorThe Drop by Mick Herron – NarratorJoe Country by Mick Herron – NarratorThe Catch by Mick Herron – NarratorSlough House by Mick Herron – NarratorBad Actors by Mick Herron – NarratorThe Secret Hours by Mick Herron – Narrator