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Keith Wickham

British voice-over actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6385210 ↗
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Keith Wickham is an English voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for providing the voices of various characters in the children's television series 64 Zoo Lane and Thomas and Friends.

Career

Wickham voiced Changed Daily in The Secret Show, Mr. Small, and Mr. Tall in The Mr. Men Show (UK version), Corneil in Watch My Chops, Mr. Mouseling and most of the male voices in Angelina Ballerina, Nelson the Elephant, Reginald the Lion, Victor the Crocodile and the others in 64 Zoo Lane, Frank the Koala, Archie the Crocodile and Sammy the Shopkeeper in The Koala Brothers and Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright and Bryan the Ferry in Toot the Tiny Tugboat.

He also voiced Polluto in Tommy Zoom, the first in-house BBC animation production; The Professor, Pipsquawk, Trevor and Mr. Crumble in Frankenstein's Cat; and in 2009, contributed by voice to the Disney Channel's Jungle Junction, for Playhouse Disney and Spider Eye Productions.

Other cartoons which Wickham has done voice work for include Vampires, Pirates & Aliens, Tails and The Thousand Tasks, The Way Things Work, and The Octonauts, in which he plays both Professor Inkling and biologist Shellington.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keith Wickham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.