Robert Mawdesley

Robert Mawdesley

Robert Mawdesley (c. 1900 – 30 September 1953) was an English actor, best remembered as the voice of the first Walter Gabriel in the long-running radio programme "The Archers", which has been running as a daily serial on BBC Radio since 1 January, 1951.

Mawdesley was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he was a keen actor in school plays. Although he had a part in Basil Dean's movie "Loyalties" (1933), almost all of his work was on stage until he joined "The Archers" in 1951. Mawdesley's character in the programme, "Walter Gabriel", was an Ambridge smallholder who provided most of the comic relief, and he was famous wherever the BBC Light Programme was heard for his catch-phrase "My old pal, my old beauty".

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561454/ "Robert Mawdesley"] at the Internet Movie Database


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