Nick Wilton(I)
- Actor
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Nick read Drama & English at Kent University. He made his professional
acting debut in the 1980 revival of the Whitehall farce "Simple
Spymen", directed by Brian Rix, and
later went on to play opposite Brian in the West End revival of "Dry
Rot". In 1982, he won the Perrier award at Edinburgh with the revue
group, Writers Inc. He then spent three years on BBC One's
Carrott's Lib (1982), which won
a Bafta for Best Live Entertainment programme, and picked up two Sony
awards for best radio comedy with "Son of Cliche" and "In One Ear",
which both ran for three series on Radio 4. He was in (and wrote for)
the kids' TV shows
Play Away (1971),
No 73 (1982) and
Fast Forward (1984), and
appeared on Jackanory (1965)
several times including reading his own story for their 25th Birthday
celebrations (other writing credits include Not The Nine O'clock News,
Three Of A Kind, Spitting Image, Smith & Jones, and Smack The Pony) and
yes, he has been in Casualty (1986),
Doctors (2000),
Heartbeat (1992),
The Bill (1984) and
EastEnders (1985), in which he has
played "Mr. Lister", the Market Inspector (then Market Manager since 2008. In the West End, he was in
the farces "Dry Rot" and "Cash on Delivery" and the revue shows "News
Revue" and "The Sloane Ranger Revue"; other stage appearances include:
national tours of "Oklahoma!", "Outside Edge" and "Run For Your Wife";
"Habeas Corpus" (Bromley, Exeter and Farnham); "Neville's Island"
(Watford); "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" (Salibury); "The Woman
Who Cooked Her Husband" (Hornchurch); "Accidental Death of an
Anarchist" (Southampton); a Middle & Far East tour of "Bedroom Farce";
"Funny Money" and "A Bedfull of Foreigners" in Singapore & Kuala
Lumpur; and "Out of Order" and "It Runs In The Family" with
Ray Cooney on P&O's 2007 and 2008 World
Cruises; and "Dame" in pantomimes every Christmas since 2000.
