British actor Ian Pepperell has died after long illness aged 53, the BBC has announced.
Pepperell appeared in TV soap EastEnders, but was best known for playing hotelier Roy Tucker in the BBC’s longrunning radio drama The Archers.
The show’s editor, Jeremy Howe, said:
“He loved being part of an ensemble, relished the camaraderie and gossip of the green room, and had a seemingly effortlessly fine tuned vocal technique.
“Like all the very best radio actors he could think on his feet and change the way he played a scene in the blink of an eye.
“Thanks to Ian’s brilliance, he created in Roy a character who managed to face in two directions simultaneously in almost every scene he played. He captured Roy as both genial and anxious, funny and sad, easy-going and permanently stressed – a man who could hold down with ease a top job, yet who...
Pepperell appeared in TV soap EastEnders, but was best known for playing hotelier Roy Tucker in the BBC’s longrunning radio drama The Archers.
The show’s editor, Jeremy Howe, said:
“He loved being part of an ensemble, relished the camaraderie and gossip of the green room, and had a seemingly effortlessly fine tuned vocal technique.
“Like all the very best radio actors he could think on his feet and change the way he played a scene in the blink of an eye.
“Thanks to Ian’s brilliance, he created in Roy a character who managed to face in two directions simultaneously in almost every scene he played. He captured Roy as both genial and anxious, funny and sad, easy-going and permanently stressed – a man who could hold down with ease a top job, yet who...
- 12/24/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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