Biography
Alisdair Simpson (born 1969) is a British actor, voice-over artist and narrator. He has a distinctive, masculine voice, making him a popular and recognisable narrator of documentaries on television.
He appeared as Ser Donnel Waynward, the Knight of the Bloody Gate in Series Four of Game of Thrones and between 2014 and 2016 he was Chapman Carter in War Horse at The New London Theatre. He was the voice of Richard in the BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated The Bigger Picture, a short animation film directed by Daisy Jacobs.
He has narrated over 250 documentaries including Pompeii: The Last Day, Lost Land of the Jaguar, Expedition Borneo, Operation Iceberg, Doctors in the Death Zone, The Somme – From Defeat to Victory for the BBC. Other programmes for WMR broadcast on the Yesterday include: Nazi Hunters, Nazi Collaborators, Secret War, Great Crimes and Trials and Black Ops. Simpson went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 1995.
His professional stage debut was at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in Tartuffe by Molière, and has gone on to work at Stratford and London in The White Devil, Troilus and Cressida and Three Hours after Marriage (1996/97) for the RSC. He was the King of France in Yukio Ninagawa's 1999/2000 production of King Lear in Tokyo, London and Stratford. He was Captain Horster in Trevor Nunn's 1997 production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People at the National Theatre and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
He was Achilles in Troilus and Cressida for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in 2003. He has also appeared at Watermill Theatre in the play Neville's Island, on tour in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls and in The Years Between at the Royal in Northampton. In 2008 he appeared at the Young Vic in an opera based on David Lynch's Lost Highway. From 2014–2016 he played Chapman Carter in War Horse at The New London Theatre.
On television he has appeared in programmes such as Game of Thrones, No Bananas, Soldier Soldier, Men Behaving Badly, Teachers, Spooks, The Worst Week of My Life, Broken News, The Bill, Casualty and Dream Team.
Filmography
all 39
TV Shows 28
self 22
Movies 11
Narrator 8
Writer 1
Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Egypt's Unexplained Files (2019)
A Private War (2018)
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow (2016)
Evolution of Evil (2016)
The Real Story of... (2016)
Manhunt: Kill or Capture (2015)
WWII in the Pacific (2015)
Secrets of the Bible (2014)
Ancient Black Ops (2014)
The Bigger Picture (2014)
Operation Iceberg (2012)
The Man Who Saved the World (2012)
Black Ops Special Forces: Operation Thunderbolt (2012)
Land of the Lost Wolves (2012)
Ragged Tooth (2011)
Secret War (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Ancient Megastructures (2011)
The Space Age: NASA's Story (2011)
Nazi Hunters (2010)
Nazi Collaborators (2010)
Queen - of the Manta Rays (2009)
NASA: Triumph and Tragedy (2009)
1000 Ways to Die (2009)
Pacific Abyss (2008)
Lost Land of the Jaguar (2008)
National Geographic - Lost Tribe of Palau (2007)
The Science Of Superstorms (2007)
Expedition Borneo (2007)
The Somme: From Defeat to Victory (2006)
Heroes of the Second World War (2005)
Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone (2005)
Pompeii: The Last Day (2003)
Spooks (2002)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Waking the Dead (2001)
Natural World (1983)
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GenderMale
Birthday1969-12-31 (54 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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