Seán Justin Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is a British actor.
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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 Bismarck!, 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.
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
Four Sided Triangle (1953) – Young Robin
The Genie (1953) -
Game of Danger (1954) – Willy
Escapade (1955) – Warren
War and Peace (1956) – Petya Rostov
Dunkirk (1958) – Frankie
A Cry from the Streets (1958) – Don
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – Able Seaman Brown
Sons and Lovers (1960) – Arthur Morel
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) – Junior British Officer
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968) – Radio Man (uncredited)
Great Catherine (1968) – Andrei Strelkin (uncredited)
Hell Boats (1970) – Sub. Lt. Hendrickson, R.N.V.R.
The Zoo Robbery (1973) – Watson
Robin Hood Junior (1975) – Sergeant
The Dark Crystal (1982) – UrSu the Dying Master, UrZah the Ritual-Guardian (voices)
Return to Oz (1985) – Tik-Tok (voice)
Labyrinth (1986) – Goblin (voice)
Beneath Still Waters (2005) – Additional voices (English and Spanish dub)
Renaissance (2006) – Naghib (voice)
Television
The Twelfth Brother (1952) – Benjamin
The Man in Armour (1952) – Ian Rowland
Stranger in the House (1953) – Peter Benfield
Thames Tug (1953) – Jimmy Spurgeon
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1956) – Richard Miller, Jimmy Sheelan
Rheingold Theatre (1953–1956) – Tony Belfont, Timothy Mulligan, Brian
The Coelacanth (1957) – Nicko
Johnnie's Night Out (1954) – Johnnie O'Hanlon
The Secret Way (1954) – John
The Scarlet Eagle (1954) – Captain Giles
The Adventures of the Big Man (1956) – Tom Lomas
Flash (1956) – Joe Harvey
Sword of Freedom (1958) – Brunetto
The Mad O'Haras (1958) – Desmond Burke
ITV Play of the Week (1959) – Ordinary seaman Frank Conway, Paul Legrand
The Flying Doctor (1959) – Malcolm Parker
Armchair Theatre (1959–1962) – Ralph, Clifford Ross
Emergency Ward 10 (1960) – Martin Cole
Paul of Tarsus (1960) – Timothy
Animation
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) – Asterix, Caius Tiddlius, Fulliautomatix, Roman Ghost, Cylindric, Mannikinpix, Gladiator Trainer, Jailer, Verses
Secret of Mamo (1978) – Koichi Zenigata (1996 Manga UK dub)
Goodbye Lady Liberty (1989) – Koichi Zenigata
Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) – Fulliautomatix, Legionnaires (British dub)
The Fruities (1990) – Roly
Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990) – Gogul (Gabimaru Rikiya)
The Heroic Legend of Arslan (1991) – Silver Mask
Roujin Z (1991) – 1st Ache
Tokyo Babylon (1992) – Inspector Kono
Dominion: Tank Police (1992) – Lt. Britain
New Dominion Tank Police (1993) – Lt. Britain
Oscar's Orchestra (1994) – Goodtooth
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker (2000) – Melchoir
Spheriks (2002) – Additional voices
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006) – Le Sage Yadoa
A Fox's Tale (2008) – Doc
Mr. Baby (2009–10) – Mr. Baby, English dub
Video games
The Feeble Files (1998) – Additional voices
Viking: Battle for Asgard (2008) – Additional voices
Dark Souls (2011) – Andre of Astora, Petrus of Thorolund, Ingward
Dark Souls II (2014) – Darkdiver Grandahl
Risen 3: Titan Lords (2014) – Additional voices
Dark Souls III (2016) – Holy Knight Hodrik, Blacksmith Andre
Total War: Warhammer (2016) – The Advisor
Total War: Warhammer II (2017) – The Advisor
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017) – Azurda / Gramps
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country (2018) – Azurda
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) – Azurda
Total War: Warhammer III (2022) – The Advisor
Audiobooks
His Dark Materials – Lord Asriel/ Iorek Byrnison
Bleak House by Charles Dickens – One of two narrators with Teresa Gallagher
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens – Narrator
Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky – Narrator
The Holy Qur'an translated by Wahiduddin Khan – Narrator
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings – Narrator
The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø – Narrator
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø – Narrator
The Leopard by Jo Nesbø – Narrator
The Bat by Jo Nesbø – Narrator
Police by Jo Nesbø – Narrator
Perfume by Patrick Suskind – Narrator
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman – Narrator
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham -Narrator
A Passion for Killing by Barbara Nadel – Narrator
Molloy by Samuel Beckett – Narrator
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett – Narrator
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett – Narrator
Lennox by Craig Russell – Narrator
