Enn Reitel (born June 21 1950) is a Scottish actor who specialises in voice work in films, television series, and video games.
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Early life
Reitel's family arrived in Scotland as refugees from Estonia. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career
Acting
In 1982, Reitel starred in The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim, a sitcom on BBC Two written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Reitel played Jim Dixon, based on the character created by Kingsley Amis.
He appeared on stage in Me and My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre in 1986. On television he worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and starred in the ITV sitcom Mog as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital, pretending to be insane.
He played the lead role in the UK television comedy series The Optimist which ran from 1983 for two series. The programme was almost entirely silent. In each episode 'The Optimist' wandered through life doing his best to look on the bright side. He was usually thwarted in his endeavours by the people he encountered. He also appeared in the first series of the UK comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
Reitel also appeared in a number of BBC radio comedy programmes in the 1980s, including Dial M For Pizza and the radio adaptation of the cartoon strip The Fosdyke Saga.
In 2001, he appeared in a short film called Coconuts with Michael Palin, in which they did a demonstration on how coconuts can be used in place of horses. This film can be seen on the second disk of the collector's edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
He played the lead role in the 2007 film Trust Me, a comedy about a pair of con men.
Reitel was the second choice to play Del Boy Trotter in Only Fools and Horses (behind Jim Broadbent aka Roy Slater in the series), but was busy with other projects (the role ultimately went to David Jason).
He also played two roles in different episodes of long-running sitcom One Foot in the Grave. In the first Christmas special, he played "Mr. Starkey", a down and out who holds Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) and his neighbour Pippa's father, Reverend Croker (Geoffrey Chater) at gunpoint to wait for Armageddon on Christmas Day. In the second episode of series 3, "Dreamland", he played a tramp who took a fancy to Victor's shoes, but drew the line at his Noel Edmonds-esque sweater.
Voiceovers
Reitel does voiceovers for The X Factor. He played the Town Crier and The Maggot in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and played Auric Goldfinger in the 2004 video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. It is his voice that provides the vocals on Lemon Jelly's "Nice Weather for Ducks" in 2002. He narrated the in-game promo spot for the Praying Mantis PMC in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He also does Lorenzo Belli's voice from Capcom's survival horror game Haunting Ground. He was also the voice of Billy the ventriloquist dummy in James Wan's movie Dead Silence. He also provided voice performance for the audiobook of the sixth book in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series, The Time Paradox. Reitel also provided the voice for Delvin Mallory in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the Wizard Zabodon in The Big Knights. He also provided the voice of Ost Ordura in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Telltale Series (2016), as well as its sequel Batman: The Enemy Within (2017). He also played Male Altmer and Dunmer in The Elder Scrolls Online. He also provided voices of The Time Keeper in Skylanders: Swap Force, Laufey in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Master Ding in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Sebastian Oliver in Adr1ft, Olgan in Baten Kaitos Origins, Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, A Male Pedestrian in Infamous, Deraegis in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Five Leaf Clover Guy, Japanese Deputy, Robertson, Boss Guraji and Fox in TripTank, Edwin Jarvis in Marvel Heroes, An English Spy in American Dad!, Billy in Dead Silence and The Dreamer in The Secret World. In May 2014, Reitel replaced Ade Edmondson as the voice of the Animal in the Peperami adverts.
Filmography
Film
Animal Madness – Various
Bedrooms – Walter
Bob's Weekend – Voice of Man on Television
Carrott U Like – Additional voices
Chicanery – Windsor Silcox
Corpse Bride – Maggot, Town Crier
Dead Silence – Billy
Foodfight! – Kung Tofu, Fracois Fromage
Forgotten Daughters – Liam
Gobble – Voice over artist
Just Another Secret (1989) – Dietrich
Labyrinth – Goblin (uncredited)
Made in Estonia – NATO general
Original Gangster – Cleaner
Postman Pat: The Movie – PC Arthur Selby, Reverend Timms, Pat Wannabe 2, Raed
Quackerz – Emperor Peng Lee
Secret History of Religion: Doomsday - Book of Revelation – Narrator
Secret History of Religion: Knights Templar – Narrator
Splitting Image: Down and Out in the White House – Additional voices
The Adventures of Tintin – Nestor, Mr. Crabtree
The Best Years – Father Jude Best
Shorts
Couples and Robbers – Keith
Day After Yesterday – The Dad
Doppelganger – Dowdsley
Ogri – Sweeney
Splitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show – Additional voices
The Band Parts – Harry
Documentaries
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – Albert Einstein, hyde Park Gent
Heroes of Comedy
How to Use Your Coconuts – Assistant
Inside the Two Worlds of 'The Corpse Bride' – Maggot (uncredited)
I Love 1980's – Himself
Monkey Business – PG Tips Chimp
Science of the Bible – Narrator
Television specials
Comic Relief – Himself
Television series
2DTV – Prime Minister Tony Blair, Jack Straw, John Prescott, Michael Jackson, Anthony McPartlin, Jeremy Clarkson, Michael Howard, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsay, Prince Harry, Tom Cruise, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Pope John Paul II, Johnny Vegas, Will Young, Tim Henman, Justin Hawkins, Jack Osbourne, Phil Spencer, David Dimbleby, Peter Andre, Frank Skinner, Des Lynam, Robbie Williams, Gareth Gates, Uri Geller, David Blunkett, Charles Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Prince Philip, Prince Edward, Prince William, Osama bin Laden, Wayne Rooney, Various voices
American Dad! – English Spy
Archer – Additional voices
Art Ninja – Narrator
Barney – Narrator / Additional voices
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Deraegis
Boston Legal – Father Kevin Maher
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Comedy Playhouse – Narrator
Canned Carrott – Narrator
Coronation Street – Photographer
Cribb – Mr. Strange
Charlie and Lola – Hedgehogs, Additional Voices (2 episode)
Drop the Dead Donkey – Voice-Over
Family Guy - Mickey Rooney, Additional voices
Fanboy & Chum Chum – Wizard Tooth Fairy (Episode "Tooth or Scare")
General Hospital – Policeman
Grey's Anatomy – Gerhardt Strauss
Television mini-series
Ashenden – Radio Disc Jockey
If You See God, Tell Him – With the voices of
Videos
The Beano Video – Singer on Record, Pa Bear, Ma Bear (burping in Scorcher), Ted Bear, Hank, Horse, Dog, Scorcher, Hare, Narrator #2
The Beano Videostars – Walter the Softy (Flutterby and Dennis Meets His Match), Aliens, Female Alien, Police Officer #1, Winston, Doctor, Hairdresser, Robot, Pa Bear, Ted Bear, Hank, Chicken, Chick, Ma's Porridge Narrator, Pedestrian #2, Poolgoer #3, Child
Video games
007: Quantum of Solace – Mr. White
Adr1ft – Sebastian Oliver
Avatar: The Game – Additional voices
Baten Kaitos Origins – Olgan
Cold Winter – Amenkoht Ali-Salah
Dishonored – Nurse Trimble – The Brigmore Witches DLC
Driver
Epic Mickey – Additional voices
Infamous – Male Pedestrian
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Ost Ordura, additional voices
Legendary – LeFey
Meet the Robinsons
Original War – Additional voices
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Bootstrap Bill Turner
Resistance: Fall of Man – Additional voices
SpongeBob Moves In! – Mermaid Man
Skylanders: Swap Force – Time Keeper
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter – Writch Hurley
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel – Additional voices
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – Additional voices
