Watership Down (TV series) were reduced and were replaced by high-profile voice actors, with only a few of the original cast reprising their roles and provide additional voices. These voices would also replace actors who left their roles from the first two series, but these roles are currently difficult for fans to identify who played which role, as the series 3 credits only listed the actors' names and not the roles they played. Hazel - One of the five protagonists of the show and Fiver's older brother. He leads the rabbits from Sandleford and eventually becomes Chief Rabbit of Watership Down. Although he is
Richard Adams age of 96 in Oxford, England from complications of a blood disorder. In 1949, Adams married (Barbara) Elizabeth, daughter of R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Edward Fox Dyke Acland, son of the barrister and judge Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland, whose father, the scientist Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (himself created a baronet of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford) descended from the Acland baronets of Columb John. Until his death, he lived with his wife in Whitchurch, within of his birthplace. Their daughters, to whom Adams originally related the tales that became "Watership Down", are Juliet and Rosamond. Richard Adams Richard George Adams (9 May