David Holt

David Holt (born January 6, 1963) is a British voice actor, actor, and screenwriter.

Biography
David Holt was born and brought up in Warton, a small village in Lancashire. He studied theatre arts at the renowned Birmingham School of Speech and Drama in the late 1980s, and upon graduating, moved to London to pursue a career as a versatile character actor in TV, film, theatre, radio, and as a voice artist and writer. He has appeared in countless productions of all types over a 30 year career.

Holt is noted for his role as Vervain in Watership Down as well as the voices for the male animals in Percy the Park Keeper, Oakie Doke and other voices in Oakie Doke, Policeman, farm animals, and Robin Hood in A Town Called Panic, Dad in Angry Kid and Pinky in The Pinky & Perky Show. He has also done other voice work in animation, promos, documentaries, films, TV, multi-media, computer games, children's toys, exhibition guides, announcements and audio books. He also has voiced commercials for L'Oreal Kids, Guess Who? and Burger King. He had provided the voice to the UK version of Face from Nick Jr from its launch in 1995 until 2004. He played the voice of Jack Frost in the movie Rainbow Magic Return to Rainspell Island and the Bengal Tiger Shere Khan and Kaa in the TV series The Jungle Book.

In his writing career, he has been writing for various radio or television productions like In the Name of the Wee Man, Cold Call, Tales From The Tower, Proof of the Pudding, Medium Rare and Beyond the Gravy.

Films

 * Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar (1999) - Cacofonix
 * Out of My League (2020) - Filippo

Animated Series

 * Maggie & the Ferocious Beast (2000-2004) - Hamilton, Beast, Nedley, Rudy, Reggie Van Beast and The Kindly Giant (UK Dub)
 * Oswald (2001-2003) - Henry, Leo, Andy Pumpkin, Additional Voices (UK Dub)
 * Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (2004-2008) - Holly (UK Dub)
 * Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs (2005-2008) - Steggy (UK Dub)
 * Dragons: Rescue Riders (2019) - Gludge, Joregen Redoot, Male Vikings (eps. 14-15) (UK Dub)
 * YooHoo to the Rescue (2019-2020) - Lemmee (UK Dub)

Animated Films

 * A Fox's Tale (2008) - Doofus, Knuckles
 * A Wizard's Tale (2018) - Bip, Beefeater 1, Royal Guard 1

Anime Films

 * Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (2009) - Marco Brock

Video Game Dubbing

 * Ape Escape 2 (2002) - Jimmy, Pipotchi, Yellow Monkey (UK Dub)
 * Ape Escape 3 (2005) - Yellow Monkey (UK Dub)
 * Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2013) - Additional Voices