Английская Википедия:Andrew Jack (dialect coach)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Andrew Jack (born Andrew Duncan Hutchinson; 28 January 1944 – 31 March 2020) was a British dialect coach and actor from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982.[1][2][3]

Early life

His father Stephen Jack was an actor in films, radio and television.Шаблон:R

Career

He had worked with over 200 actors[4] including Robert Downey Jr. (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Michael Hoffman's Restoration and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy.[5] He designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojans in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. He taught Evan Davis to speak with a Nottinghamshire twang.[6] He was known for helping non-British actors to be more intelligible to the audience.[7]

Jack can also be seen in the Star Wars film series portraying Resistance Major (later promoted to General) Caluan Ematt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He also voiced the character of Moloch in Solo: A Star Wars Story.Шаблон:Citation needed The final film he was working on at the time of his death was The Batman,[8] which was dedicated to him.

Personal life

Jack was married to Felicity Filmore from 1974 to 1987, and to Paula Jack from 2000 to 2018; both marriages ended in divorce.[9]

Jack's widow Gabrielle Rogers is also a voice, accent and dialect coach who first started working in the film, television and theatre industries as an actor in the 1980s. Rogers and Jack were married in 2019.

Death

Jack died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 76 from COVID-19.[10] His wife Gabrielle Rogers wrote on Twitter:[11]

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Filmography

Dialect work
Year Title Position Notes
1982 Nancy Astor Dialect coach
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Uncredited
The Ginger Tree
1990 The Gravy Train 4 episodes
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
A Demon in My View
1992 The Last of the Mohicans
Chaplin
1993 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1994 Backbeat
Nostradamus
2022 The Batman Posthumous release
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2001 Kate & Leopold John A. Roebling
2009 Sherlock Holmes Professor Moriarty Voice (lines later overdubbed by Jared Harris following the release of A Game of Shadows)
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Caluan Ematt
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story Moloch Voice
2020 Rising Wolf Doctor Thompson Post-production
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1957 Whack-O! School Boy 10 episodes
1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre Boy Episode: "Against the Stream"
1966 This Man Craig Waiter Episode: "A Wise Father"
1968 The Spanish Farm Lt. Andrews Episode: "Paris"
1969 Chronicle Bosham Episode: "Thomas Becket"
Doctor in the House Smoothie Episode: "It's All Go..."
1970 The Black Tulip Craeke 1 episode
1971 Softly Softly: Task Force Radley Episode: "Company Business"
Video games
Year Title Role Notes
2016 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Caluan Ematt

References

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