Biografi
Steve Nallon is a writer and performer engaged across various media, including film, television, radio, and theatre, serving as an actor, writer, broadcaster, academic, and voice artist.
He began performing in 1976 on the northern working men's club circuit in Yorkshire, England. After earning a Drama and English degree from the University of Birmingham, Steve became a founding member of the ITV series Spitting Image, where for ten years he provided voices for figures such as the Queen Mother, Roy Hattersley, Denis Healey, Malcolm Rifkind, Margaret Thatcher, David Attenborough, Enoch Powell, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Ted Heath, Leonard Rossiter, Harold Wilson, Alan Bennett, and many others.
As a playwright and comedy writer, Steve boasts an extensive portfolio, including plays and series for BBC radio, three solo theatre shows, and the satirical book I, Margaret, co-authored with Tom Holt. In 2022, Luath Press published his novel The Time That Never Was, the first in the young adult series The Swidgers, followed by the second book, The Time They Saved Tomorrow, in 2024. He co-wrote Destination Time Travel, an examination of time travel story tropes, with British Film Institute archivist Dick Fiddy, published in 2023. His collection of twelve supernatural stories, Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories, was released by Scratching Shed in October 2024.
Steve's voice work spans ADT, animation, film dubbing, looping, video games, commercials, and dramatic readings. His television and film credits include Hands of a Murderer (US TV movie with Edward Woodward), Animal Madness, Pallas, Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV, voicing David Cameron, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Queen, among others), In Search of La Che, Wire in the Blood (voicing the serial killer in the ITV crime series), Crossing the Floor, Overlord (video game voices), Bullseye! (comedy film directed by Michael Winner), and Charlie (RTÉ 2015 drama about former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey). He has also appeared on records such as No Clause 28 with Boy George and the comedy CD Funny Times with Harry Hill.
As an actor, in 2015 Steve starred as astrophysicist Professor Richards in the sci-fi film 51 Degrees North, directed by German-born Grigorij Richters with an original score by Queen's Brian May. He portrayed experimental scientist Professor Edmund Spencer in the BBC-produced short film The Ganzfeld Procedure, directed by Keith McCarthy. On the cult BBC series Jonathan Creek, Steve appeared as Rupert, Caroline Quentin's 'hot date.' His other film roles include the family doctor in The Girl With Brains In Her Feet, an immigration officer in The Refuge, and journalist Dave in Frankie and Johnny. He also featured as Mrs. McCrory, a possessive demonic mother figure, in the award-winning short Number Thirteen and appeared on television in the comedy series Rory Bremner... Who Else? (C4), playing a Patricia Routledge-style character.
On stage, Steve has performed in musicals such as Jacque in Carnival (Lost Musicals Season at London's Barbican Theatre), the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show (Leicester Haymarket), and Ted the Cloggie in The Cloggies (Theatr Clwyd). In 2013, he toured the UK in the acclaimed production of Cissie and Ada, portraying Roy Barraclough/Cissie, centered on the friendship between actor Roy Barraclough and comedian Les Dawson and the creation of the comic duo 'Cissie and Ada.' In 2014, fulfilling a lifelong ambition, Steve played the dame in pantomime, starring as Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Buxton Opera House, receiving universally positive reviews and breaking box office records.
Steve has an extensive background in BBC radio drama, including the lead role of Bobby in Props; Barry, Bradley Walsh's sidekick in the sitcom King of the Road; portraying former prime ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan opposite Leslie Phillips in Maclean - The Memorex Years; Jorgen Riise in Believe It! with Richard Wilson; and Attenborough in Peoplewatch. Other radio roles include Prizegiving, A Lovesong for Alfred J Hitchcock, Bedsprings, Remembering Live Aid, and The Music Machine series. In the biographical series Mad Composers, Steve voiced all characters, including Beethoven, Satie, Grainger, Gesualdo, Gurney, and Ives.
Two less expected facets of Steve's career are film and television puppeteering and computer motion capture performance. He is a highly skilled and sought-after artist in both areas. His puppeteering and vocal work cover over a hundred shows and titles, including Cats' Eyes (BBC), The Spooks of Bottle Bay (ITV), The House of Gristle (BBC), The Wild Bunch (C4), The Pig Attraction (ITV), The Dan and Dusty Show (ITV), What's Up Doc? (ITV), Crazy Cottage (ITV), and puppet work on the film Muppet Treasure Island. As a motion capture performer, he has worked with Centroid and Headcaster on video games and apps. In 1988, he appeared on BBC's Tomorrow's World, demonstrating early experimental motion capture work.
Steve has freelanced as a script editor on film and theatre development projects and collaborated with new writers through Screen West Midlands and other film development organizations. He has written about film for The New Statesman and on film theory and genre for ScriptWriter magazine. Frequently, he contributes to television programs reflecting on television history and culture, including The Story of Light Entertainment (BBC), Forty Years of ITV, Comedy Connections (BBC), Fifty Years of ITV, and Greatest Almost Famous TV Moments (C5).
From 1995 to 2003, Steve was a visiting lecturer in the University of Birmingham's drama department, teaching film and directing courses covering stand-up comedy, screenwriting, Greek theatre, Broadway musicals, comedy of manners, and story structures. He has contributed articles and reviews to periodicals such as Musical Stages and New Theatre Quarterly, authored the musical theatre chapter in the illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (Flame Tree Publishing), and regularly appeared on BBC Radio's Soul Music discussing the impact of popular music. In 2014, he participated in Britain's Best Loved Double Acts (C5), analyzing acts like Laurel and Hardy, Hinge and Bracket, Cissie and Ada, and Little and Large. Steve is often invited to discuss voice on programs including BBC Radio's Open University series In Other Words and Accents Speak Louder Than Words, as well as Speak Out! and Word of Mouth.
