Cast & creator
Roy Evans
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Doctor Who
Roy Evans is an English actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder. Born in Fishponds, he was adopted by Edmund Evans and Clarice Augusta Georgina May Evans (née Gowen). As a teenager, Evans went to London to become a dancer and actor. His dancing work includes visiting the Nottingham Theatre Royal with the International Ballet Company in 1951, gaining a long run in A Girl Called Jo at Piccadilly Theatre followed by a six-month engagement as principal male ballet dancer with the Swedish national ballet company. In film he is particularly known for roles in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Oliver! (1968), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968), Where's Jack? (1969), Loving Memory (1971), Dark Places (1973), Jabberwocky (1977), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Company of Wolves (1984).
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film credits
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television credits
81
1963–2004 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (81)
Showing 81 of 81 credits
Doctor Who
Bert
1963Doctor Who
Miner
1963Doctor Who
Trantis
1963
M*A*S*H
Orderly (uncredited)
1972
Minder
Elderly Man
1979
Screen Two
Undertaker
1985
Omnibus
Coachman
1967
Theatre 625
Mike
1964
Blackadder
Abel, a Peasant
1983Blackadder
Dumb Abel, a Peasant
1983Blackadder
Abel, a Bilind Beggar
1983
Blake's 7
Slave
1978
Van der Valk
Caretaker
1972
Secret Army
Belgian Farmer
1977
Churchill's People
Churl
1974
The Protectors
Joe Lomax
1972
Dempsey and Makepeace
Sims
1985
Budgie
Reggie
1971
Worzel Gummidge
Whelk-stall owner
1979
Poldark
Nick Vigus
1975
Dick Turpin
Fellowes
1979
Murder Most Horrid
Carriage Driver
1991
Campion
Branch
1989
Return of the Saint
Dillon
1978
The Elephant Man
Cabman
1980
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Coachman
1971
Cribb
Shopkeeper
1980
Warship
Cook Meadows
1973
Super Gran
Roland Rattray
1985
Around the World in 80 Days
Shirley Rose Engineer
1989
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Vampire at Ball (uncredited)
1967
Londoners
Second Clerk
1965
The Company of Wolves
Eyepatch
1984
From a Bird's Eye View
Tall Undertaker
1970
Ellis Island
Stage Door Guard
1984
Santa Claus: The Movie
Village Leader (uncredited)
1985
Oliver!
Pauper - Workhouse
1968
Ain't Misbehavin'
Stage Door Keeper
1997
The Prince and the Pauper
Night Owl
1977
Jabberwocky
Ratman
1977
Judge Dee
Tai
1969
Hamlet
The Players
1990
Restoration
Fleeing Man
1995
The Doctor and the Devils
Sewerman
1985
Johnny and the Dead
Boatman
1995
The Hour of the Pig
Travelling Player
1993
The House That Dripped Blood
1971
The Big Sleep
Deliveryman (uncredited)
1978
The Gathering
The Gathering
2003
Scrooge
Ghostly Coachman (uncredited)
1970
The Blood Beast Terror
2nd Porter
1968
Andy Capp
Workman
1988
Les Misérables
Brevet
1978
Loving Memory
Man
1970
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Trantis
1965
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Gyrth
1973
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Bert
1973
Dark Places
Baxter
1973
Terror
Villager
1979
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Major Domo (uncredited)
1976
Death of a Son
Undertaker
1989
No Hard Feelings
soldier
1976
Foreign Body
Newspaper vendor
1986
Half a Sixpence
Pub Character
1967
The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket
Man Poke by Stick
1969
Where's Jack?
Mr Hind
1969
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Miner
1974
Deathday
Postman
1971
Return to Waterloo
Mortuary Attendant
1984
A Ghost of a Chance
Driver
1967
The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids
Street Cleaner
1968
Schalcken the Painter
Coachman
1979
Hazlitt in Love
Birdseller
1977
Lost In London
Taxi Driver
1985
Flyaway
1972
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Ted Prendergast
2003
Baal
2nd Cab Driver
1982
Coming Out
Charlie Rose
1979
Imaginary Friends
George
1982
Global Conspiracy?
Talfryn Pritchard
2004
Border
Lodger
1988