Hugh Terry

Languages spoken: French, German, Italian. All kinds of English-speaking accents: Educated, RP, London (Cockney), Upper-class, northern English, West of England, Scottish, Irish, American, Australian, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Extensive TV, radio, film, theatre, dubbing and recording experience.

Hugh has a wide range of experience that runs deep. He has recorded TV commercials and voiceovers for BBC Radio and TV and presented radio shows on Radio Basingstoke, Radio UK International and CMR Nashville. He acted in the BBC Radio docu-drama The Hong Kong Holding Company and the BBC Radio 4 production of Bleak House, which won a UK Sony radio award. In Hong Kong, Hugh worked for radio stations BFBS and RTHK, film production companies and publishing houses like Pearson Education, Longman and Oxford University Press. He has also recorded and produced himself narrating the popular audiobook Flights of Fancy. From 1990-2002, Hugh was a popular presenter and producer on Hong Kong radio. He has done everything from newsreading, sports reporting and interviewing to music presentation and commercial production. Hugh played a dozen different animated characters in TV series Cone Control, Crocos and Kangoos. He also appeared in the full-length 3-D animated feature Dragon Blade. Hugh has researched and written articles on sport and the arts to TV & Entertainment Times, the Hong Kong Standard and South China Morning Post. Hugh acted and sang in the London Fringe theatre musical Friday Night Clive, having worked for the BBC as a sound archivist in Broadcasting House and contributed to Radio Times magazine. He acted in and produced the stage and radio dramas like Kiss Me Kate and Absurd Person Singular with the BBC's in-house Ariel Theatre Company and Studio Drama Group, co-editing the latter's magazine and being voted Actor of the Year for Dracula (title role). In 1985 Hugh achieved a Pass with Merit in Radio Programming and Production at the National Broadcasting School, London. Hugh played Monsieur Cot in Hotel Paradiso at Reading University and twice starred on the Edinburgh Fringe with the Oxford Revue – in 1981 and '84. He took leading roles in the Barnumesque musical The Silver Lining, and experimental play Supermarket, as well as touring with children's theatre companies. In the Oxford University Dramatic Society production of Six Characters in Search of an Author Hugh appeared as brothel-keeper Madam Pace at Oxford's Playhouse theatre, and was the Baroness in the Sound of Music and Algy in The Importance of Being Earnest for Balliol DramSoc. From 1977 Hugh studied Modern History and Modern Languages at Balliol College Oxford, spending a year teaching in France, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts honours degree Class 2, later gaining an M.A. As a teenager Hugh gained invaluable stage experience at Reading Theatre Workshop, where he performed leading roles in such plays as The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderella and the 40 Thieves [sic] and Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. Vastly experienced as a voice actor, Hugh can produce good-quality .mp3 and .wav recordings via a Stennheuser microphone and Toshiba laptop. Singing - basically a baritone but with a wide range - from falsetto to bass. Many accents, including Cockney, West Country, northern, Scottish, Irish, American and Australian. Hugh is a keen swimmer and careful driver! See also #Twitter - @Baron_Rock