Gareth Armstrong (born 28 September 1948) is a Welsh actor. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
His television credits include: Z Cars, Doctor Who (in the serial The Masque of Mandragora), Blake's 7, The Professionals, Terry and June, One Foot in the Grave, Casualty and EastEnders. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars) was a British Television drama series centred on the work of beat police in the fictional Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Masque of Mandragora is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast Blake's 7 is a British Science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC for their BBC 1 channel The Professionals was a British crime-action Television drama series that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983 filmed between 1977 Terry and June is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987 One Foot in the Grave was a BBC television Situation comedy series written by David Renwick. Casualty is the longest running emergency medical Drama series in the world and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985
On the stage he has appeared in productions of Shakespeare on numerous occasions, including the role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare ( baptised The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598 He has also toured internationally in his own one-man show Shylock; Shakespeare's principal Jewish character is seen from the viewpoint of Tubal, the Bard's only other Jewish character and Shylock's only friend in the original play. Armstrong did the voice acting for the Japanese television series Journey to the West released in English-speaking countries as Monkey. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Journey to the West ( is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Monkey, also known as Monkey Magic!, refers to the English language voice-over version - not the original English subtitled version - of the Japanese On radio, he has played three recurring roles in The Archers on Radio 4 including Sean Myerson, the publican of the Cat and Fiddle and the serial's first regular gay character. The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4.
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| NAME | Armstrong, Gareth |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British actor |
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