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Movies starring Jack May have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Brief Encounter - released in 1945 - is Jack May's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 591 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jack May is Trog - released in 1970 - with a score of 36% based on 27 reviews.
Jack May was a mellifluous-voiced actor best known for playing butlers and establishment figures, often representing Britain's interests in far-flung corners of the empire. With regards the former, he memorably played William E. Simms, former music hall artise turned manservant to Gerald Harper's titular swashbuckling adventurer in '60s TV cult classic Adam Adamant Lives! as well as providing the voice of Igor, the long-suffering valet in Cosgrove Hall's 1980s animation Count Duckula. His film credits included the district commissioner in 1975's The Man Who Would Be King and the prosecuting naval attorney in the remake of The Bounty (1984). For many, May was Nelson Gabriel 'the most disreputable character in Ambridge' in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers. May took the role of the shady rogue, later antique dealer and wine bar owner, in 1952 and continued to play him right up until the year of his death, 1997. This 45 year stint made May, at the time, the fourth-longest serving soap opera star in the world. He died at the age of 75, on 19 September 1997, survived by his wife, the actress Petra Davies, his daughter Henrietta, and son David.
Jack May has acted in films with Irene Handl, Arthur Mullard, Alfie Bass and Jack Hedley.
Jack May has worked with these film directors: David Lean, Richard Lester, Freddie Francis and Basil Dearden.
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