Kerry Shale is a Canadian actor, voice-over artist and writer, based in London, England.
Career
Film
Shale's film appearances include Barbra Streisand's Yentl, Michael Winterbottom's films Genova, Code 46, Jude and Welcome to Sarajevo, the Emmy-winning HBO filmRKO 281 as well as 102 Dalmatians, Max, Little Shop of Horrors, , The Special Relationship, The Jacket, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Final Portrait, Show Dogs and Angel Has Fallen. He played Adolf Eichmann in the short filmIncognito, external link below.
Television
Shale has played roles in Patrick Melrose, Living The Dream, The Trip To Spain, New Blood, Undercover, New Tricks, Mr. Selfridge. Other television acting work includes Red Dwarf, Life's Too Short, Doctor Who, The Trip, 10 Days To War, Holby City, Not Going Out, Gideon's Daughter and Love Soup, as well as episodes of Cracker, Joking Apart, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sharpe's Rifles, and The Tomorrow People. He played Mr. Beaver in the BBC's 1988 TV adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He also played Ronnie Corbett's godson, Gavin in the TV series Sorry.
Animation
Shale has voiced many UK series such as Dennis the Menace, Budgie the Little Helicopter, Captain Star and Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop. He has also voiced characters in the US version of Roary the Racing Car. His latest animation series is the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning The Amazing World of Gumball for The Cartoon Network. He has also voiced the narrator and characters of the US version of The Transporters. Shale is a regular cast member of Thomas & Friends, providing voices for Henry, Gordon, Scruff, Harold, Max, Kevin, and Dash in the US as well as Diesel and Arry in the UK and US. He previously voiced James and Sir Topham Hatt in the US until Season 18, Rob Rackstraw and Keith Wickham took over the roles.
Shale has acted in over 200 BBC Radio plays, recorded Bill Bryson's travel books on the radio and as audiobooks, has won a Sony Award as Best UK Radio Actor and a Writers' Guild Award for his radio dramatisation of Dr. Strangelove in which he also played half a dozen roles. From 2002 to 2004, he wrote and presented Kerry Shale's Listy Show, an eclectic music program on Oneword Radio. He has often been the reader for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.
Writing
In addition to writing five one-man stage plays and a number of radio adaptations, Shale has written columns, reviews and sketches for BBC Radio, articles for The Guardian and The Word and a BAFTA-nominated video gameDog's Life. His play The Prince of West End Lane was given a staged reading at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Video games
Shale has voiced hundreds of video games. According to The Guinness Book of World Records - Gamers' Edition, Shale has provided more voices for a single video game than any other actor. He also voiced ‘Fuse’ in the video game Space Channel 5 and ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes" and "Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments".
Narration
He has narrated many television documentaries for the US and UK, including 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz and Shadows of Liberty, even Wild Discovery. Shale's many audio books include the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child as well as Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, and The White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker prize.
Other work
In 2005, he began appearing on the panel of BBC programmes such as Newsnight Review, The Review Show and Radio 4's Saturday Review. He was one of the organizers of the monthly London story-telling evening, True Stories Told Live. He was a member of the comedy Improv group People People.
Personal life
Shale is married to Suzanne Shale, a former Oxford University law don, who now works as a specialist in medical ethics.
