Simon Greenall

Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor. Among his television appearances are as the Caretaker on Trapped!, and as Michael the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programmes and films. He also voices Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts franchise, the twins in the Shaun the Sheep films, and Aleksandr Orlov and Sergei the meerkats in the Compare the Market adverts.

Career Greenall has appeared in a number of television shows, shorts, movies, and video games. Earlier roles include as policemen in Life Without George (1987), One Foot in the Grave (1990), He currently voices Aleksandr Orlov the meerkat in the Compare the Market adverts.

When Grant Bovey was training for a BBC charity boxing match against Ricky Gervais, Greenall was one of Bovey's sparring partners. In 1995, he won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards honour in the TV - Light Entertainment category along with Harry Enfield, Geoffrey Perkins, Harry Thompson, Paul Whitehouse, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman and Kay Stonham for Harry Enfield's Television Programme. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Cumbria.

Selected filmography Film Year(s) Title Role Ref 1999 Tube Tales Business Man (segment: "Mouth") No Heroics Isobar 1 2012 Spy Quiz host 1

Video games

Year(s) Title Role Ref 1997 Tomb Raider II Claudio, Fabio, Brother Chan Barkhang (voices) 2000 Shogun: Total War Team Buddies Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition 2001 Original War 2002 Hard Hitter Tennis Bob Conner (voice) 2004 Future Tactics: The Uprising Fable Fisherman (voice) Dragon Quest VIII Additional voices English Version 2005 Ape Escape 3 Monkey Blue (voice) English (UK) Version MediEvil: Resurrection Dirk Steadfast, Help Gargoyles, Trapped Villager (voices) Battalion Wars Kommandant Ubel Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction 2006 Medieval II: Total War 2007 Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Battalion Wars 2 Kommandant Ubel (voice) 2008 Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Fable II 2009 Killzone 2 Additional Helghast Voices (voice) BattleForge Battlefield Heroes Royals and Nationals (voices) Battlefield 1943 Newscaster Risen Luis, Adan, Dargel 2010 Final Fantasy XIV Lolorito Fable III 2011 Stronghold 3 2013 Puppeteer Captain Gaff (voice) 2014 LittleBigPlanet 3 Zom-Zom the Far Out (voice) 2015 Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Lolorito, Nidhogg (voices) 2017 Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Lolorito (voice) 2018 Forza Horizon 4 Hans Liebold (voice) 2019 Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions 2020 Sackboy: A Big Adventure Zom Zom (voice)