Jack May the voice for Igor, long-suffering butler to Count Duckula in the cartoon series of the same name. He also appeared as the waiter Garkbit in the television version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Théoden in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings", as General Hermack in the 1969 "Doctor Who" serial "The Space Pirates", and in "Bachelor Father". For 45 years the long-running BBC Radio 4 series, "The Archers" featured the voice of May as Nelson Gabriel, son of Walter Gabriel, making him (at the time of his death) the fourth-longest serving soap opera
Ray Smith (actor) won him a posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award (Best Actor) in 1992. His son was the musician Huw Justin Smith, better known as Pepsi Tate. Ray Smith (actor) Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series "Dempsey and Makepeace". He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio. Smith was born in Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, but lived for most of his adult life in Dinas Powys. He became interested in acting while he was at school, and