Biographie
Tim, best known as the voice of David Archer in the BBC Radio series The Archers since 1982, is also a versatile actor across stage, film, radio, and television. He portrayed the swashbuckling Tom Lacey in the 1980s series By The Sword Divided and starred alongside David Jason in 2012's The Royal Bodyguard. More recently, he appeared in Twenty Twelve, The Politician's Husband, EastEnders, Lucan, Gangsta Granny, and played the Home Secretary in the BBC spy series The Game. He also starred as a bank robber in the short film Locked Up, which won Best Short Film at the 2014 Lanzarote Film Festival.
In addition to acting, Tim is a leading voice artist and dubbing specialist, as well as an inventor, writer, travel journalist, computer programmer, and musician. He was educated at Harrow and the University of East Anglia before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In 2012, he won Celebrity Mastermind with Winnie the Pooh as his specialist subject, defeated Judith Keppel in Celebrity Eggheads, and went on to beat Linford Christie and Britain's tallest couple on Pointless Celebrities.
Alongside reaching 5 million listeners daily as David Archer, he provides the voice of James Bond in The World Is Not Enough computer game and Victor Saltzpyre in the video game Vermintide. For 15 years, his voice was also familiar to Londoners as the "Mind The Gap" announcement on the Piccadilly Line.
In 2017, he published his autobiography, Being David Archer - And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living.
He was appointed MBE in 2018 for Services to Drama, receiving the honor from the Prince of Wales.
Tim resides in London with his wife Judy, a prominent hat designer, and their two sons, Will and Jasper.
