Edward Harry Kelsey (4 June 193023 April 2019) was an English actor. He was best known for voicing the role of Joe Grundy for 34 years in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 and for voicing various other characters on television.
Early life and career Kelsey was born on 4 June 1930 in Petersfield, Hampshire, and educated at Churcher's College.Petersfield Post, 'Tributes for Archers actor' p. 9 Wednesday 1 May 2019 In 1954, he joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs BursaryCarleton Hobbs Bursary winners at BBC.co.uk, accessed 23 January 2018 He was known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and Baron Silas Greenback in the animated series Danger Mouse produced by Cosgrove Hall. He also appeared on such British television programmes as The Avengers, Softly, Softly, The Saint, Public Eye, Dempsey and Makepeace, Z-Cars, Juliet Bravo, Doctor Who, Minder, Angels, Casualty, The Vicar of Dibley, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Shoestring, Wives and Daughters, Anna of the Five Towns, Campion, The Tripods and EastEnders.
He acted in three Doctor Who stories, as a slave buyer in The Romans, Resno in The Power of the Daleks and Edu in The Creature from the Pit. He voiced Mr. Growbag in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), several characters in Cosgrove Hall's Victor and Hugo, The Reluctant Dragon, and The Wind in the Willows (television and film), H.H. Junketbury in The Talking Parcel, Farmer Listener and Forester in The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship and also for the voice of "The Thing" in another Cosgrove Hall production, Truckers, based on a book by Terry Pratchett.
Death He died of a heart attack on 23 April 2019 in Birmingham, West Midlands. He was 88 years old.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1967 The Gentle Libertine Papa / Brague 1987 Crystalstone Hook 1988 The Most Dangerous Man in the World Fendoglu 1996 Victory Second Billiard Player 2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Mr. Growbag Voice (final film role)
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The Archers