Biography
Tim Dry is a writer, mime, actor, musician and photographic artist, best known for playing two characters in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ('J'Quille - Whiphid' and 'Mon Calamari Officer'), the alien in cult '80s Sci Fi/horror movie Xtro and for being half of a duo, Tik and Tok, that popularized robotic mime in the UK in the 1980s.They appeared on 26 TV shows in the UK (The most notable being The Royal Variety Performance 1983 in the presence of HRH Queen Elizabeth), recorded 5 singles and 2 albums and performed with Duran Duran, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Adam & The Ants, Cliff Richard and Depeche Mode amongst others. Tim's TV appearances include Father Ted, The Bill, Eastenders, The 10th Kingdom (Cable TV series) Casualty and Goodbye Mr Steadman. He co-presented the Channel 4 food and drink series Feast in 1997.Tim has been featured in over 90 TV Commercials and played the leads in Steven Berkoff's Harry's Christmas, John Bowen's After The Rain and Moliere's School For Wives on the London Stage. His film roles include the title role in the short SON Of Nosferatu, Entourage 7 in Steven Berkoff's Decadence,The Death Provider in Le Accelerator and Melvyn in the short Pier Pressure.
Tim is also an award-winning Photographic Artist, whose subjects have included Mick Jagger, author and actress Barbie Wilde, Steven Berkoff, The Mediaeval Baebes, composer Georg Kajanus, author Rupert Thomson and Joan Collins. His unique art has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, Gallery 286 in London, the Royal Photographic Society, the Association of Photographers Gallery and in Hamburg, Berlin, New York and at the Arts Club in London . Tim is the author of two published books of memoirs:Falling Upwards - Scenes From A life and Continuum - The Star Wars Phenomenon As Experienced From The Inside. His first novella, entitled Ricochet was released in January 2018 by Azoth Khem Publishing. He also has short stories in three Horror anthologies published by Western Legends Press.Namely:O is for Onokentaura in The Bestiarum Vocabulum, N is for Nostophobia in Phobophobias and A is for Annis in The Grimorium Verum. Lycopolis Press published his story Interview With Nybbas in their anthology Demonology in 2015. All of which were compiled and edited by Dean M Drinkel. The 2016 anthology of poems and short stories influenced by the life and work of the late David Bowie entitled 47 - 16 featured Tim's story Inside. Tim's tale Leo was published in the anthology The Thirteen Signs, published by again edited by Dean M Drinkel, in 2016. A story by Tim entitled The Fall can be found in Whirling World anthology of industrial horror. Christmas 2017 saw the publication of Tim's story Nine Ladies Dancing in the anthology 12 Dark days.Tim has also contributed articles for Forbes magazine, Film Review annual and Film Rage magazine. He wrote the text for the illustrated book Detroit Rising that is to be made into a feature length movie in 2017.
