Biography

Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958 in Longtown, Cumberland) is an English actor, writer, producer and voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Michael in the BBC TV series I'm Alan Partridge, the Caretaker in the CBBC game show Trapped (TV Series) and as the voice of headmaster Iqbal in Bromwell High.

Greenall has appeared in the TV series such as Armstrong and Miller, Soldier Soldier, Fortysomething, Between the Lines, The Bill, Holby City, Kiss Me Kate, Harry Enfield and Chums, Monkey Dust, People Like Us, Doc Martin, W1A, Time Gentlemen Please, One Foot in the Grave, Inspector George Gently, Alas Smith and Jones, as Mr Skinner in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters", and as the voice of Mervin in the MTV puppet show "Fur TV". His film credits include Wimbledon. He wrote for and appeared in Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show. He also contributed his voice to the video games Dragon Quest VIII and Tomb Raider II, among several others. He plays several characters in the British version of The Mr. Men Show, provides the speaking voice of Captain Barnacles in CBeebies' The Octonauts, and played the Caretaker in the CBBC game shows Trapped! and Trapped! Ever After.

In the second series of Saxondale that started to air on BBC Two and BBC HD on 23 August 2007, Greenall was reunited with I'm Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan. He played an ex-roadie friend of Tommy (Coogan) who has since become the managing director of a sleek technology company. He plays a variety of different roles in popular BBC Radio 2 sitcom On the Blog. He was one of Grant Bovey's sparring partners when he was training for the BBC charity boxing match against comedian Ricky Gervais.

In 2002, he appeared in the Chris Morris production "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117" in which he played a brief role as the father of a child being baptised. In 2007, he provided the voice of Prince Charming in the English-French-Belgian-Japanese adult-animated Snow White: The Sequel, which is based on TV Funhouse alongside the voices of Stephen Fry as the narrator and Rik Mayall as the Seven Dwarves. He provided the voice in the Weetabix adverts and is also the voice of Aleksandr Orlov the meerkat in the comparethemarket.com adverts.

He appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom Pete versus Life as one of the two commentators remarking on the title character's life. He also voices the character of Murgo in the Fable video game franchise. Since October 2010, he has been responsible for voicing the character of Captain Barnacles Bear in The Octonauts. In 2011, he appeared in the BBC drama Holy Flying Circus. He was credited as co-executive producer of the 2011 film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

In December 2011, Greenall voiced three Viz Comedy Blaps for Channel 4. In 2013, he returned to his role of Michael in the feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. In 2014, he starred as a Cornish person and Mebyon Kernow member in the BBC series W1A. Actual Mebyon Kernow leader Dick Cole suggested Simon "wasn't nearly as handsome as any of the Mebyon Kernow front bench." He played the Sid James character part in BBC Radio's Missing Hancocks series, in which the cast recreate the original Hancock roles in re-recordings of original scripts where the original recordings of the episodes have been wiped. He plays the role of "Ron Bone" - manager of The Mallard Theatre - in BBC Radio 4's sit-com "The Simon Day Show", from 2012 (6 half-hour-long episodes) - also repeated several times through the years on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He was also winner of Celebrity Mastermind in 2015.

- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous