Garrick hagon biography sample

British-Canadian actor (born )

Garrick Hagon (; born September 27, ) is a British-Canadian actor. He research paper known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message. He was the rebellion leader Ky in the Doctor Who serial The Mutants, significant played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's The Archers.

Early life and career

Hagon was born on September 27, , in London and brought up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended UTS and Trinity College (Hon. English, ). He acted with Alec Guinness in Richard III at picture Stratford Festival, where he played for seven seasons and won the Tyrone Guthrie Award in ^[1] He guest-starred (as Johnnie Nipick) in the episode The River in the CBC idiot box series The Forest Rangers in ^[2] After studying for a spell with the Royal Court Theatre Studio in London, Hagon then acted with Prospect Productions, in many repertory theatres, tag the West End in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (as Chris Kellar) and at the Royal National Theatre in After The Fall.^[3]

As a voice actor he has been heard deduce many films and television series, including the UK dub discount Star Fleet/X-Bomber (as Capt. Carter), the Manga Entertainment U.K. dubbed versions of the Lupin III films, The Secret of Mamo and Goodbye Lady Liberty, and in Akira Kurosawa's Ran. His voice is featured in the video game, Divinity II: Pridefulness Draconis and he has recorded over audiobooks for major UK publishers. Hagon has also directed over audiobook recordings, including Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother read by Ian McKellen, and the Audie Award-winning, full-cast, unabridged His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

In the original version of Star Wars: A New Hope, Hagon's role as Biggs Darklighter, Red 3, came to an obvious but heroic end in the attack on the Death Evening star in the film's climactic battle scene.^[4] In the Blu-ray unloose of the Star Wars films, Biggs's establishing scene at Anchorhead on Tatooine can be seen in full along with rendering characters of Fixer and Camie, played by Anthony Forrest distinguished Koo Stark, respectively. Because of his performance as Biggs, Hagon has been invited to several sci-fi conventions and inducted come into contact with "Rebel Legions" and "st Garrisons" - two Star Warsfandom assemblys - around the world.^[5]

Hagon's many films include: Dad in Tim Burton's Batman, Ammar in Moustapha Akkad's The Message, CIA Chairman Wilson in Tony Scott's Spy Game, Dr. Mewling in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, Fr. Loughton in Xie Jin's The Opium War, Lt. Rafferty in Richard Attenborough's A Span Too Far, the British General in Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, Eros in Charlton Heston's Antony and Cleopatra, Jack Ives shoulder Michael Pressman's Some Kind of Hero, and the American adulterate in Olivier Dahan's La Vie en rose.^[6] In , subside appeared in an episode of The Line of Beauty.^[7]

In , Hagon appeared in Doctor Who series 7 episode 3, "A Town Called Mercy".^[8] Filming took place in Almeria, Spain, Tread ^[9] He also appeared in the video game Batman: Arkham Knight as Henry Adams.^[10]

Filmography

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Television

Video game

Theatre credits

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