Jeff Harding (actor)

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Jeff Harding is an American actor from Andover, Massachusetts, who attended college in Brunswick, Maine.

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He is best known as an audiobook narrator for works including the Jack Reacher book series for Audible, [1] The Da Vinci Code , The Bourne Identity , Kane and Abel and Secrets Of The Code. He also narrates for the RNIB Talking Books service. [2]

As an actor, he has appeared in films like The Razor's Edge (1984), Spies Like Us (1985), Hackers (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Alfie (2004) and De-Lovely (2004).

A United Kingdom resident since the 1970s, he has appeared in British & Irish comedies like The Armando Iannucci Shows , The Fast Show and Father Ted and in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way . On The Fast Show, Harding's sketches often involved nothing more than his character saying "Hi, I'm Ed Winchester" to camera in the style of a TV news reporter. He also appeared in the 1990s remake of The Tomorrow People as General Damon. He dubbed "Felidae" In 1994

In the BBC docudrama series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World he played chief engineer John Frank Stevens in the episode dedicated to the building of the Panama Canal.

He guest-starred in the CW series Life is Wild in the episode "Open for Business". He voices Vincent Meis in the video game The Witcher and guest-starred in the CBBC series The Basil Brush Show in 2003 in the episode Fit for Nothing, playing Healthy Harry. In the 1990s he provided voice-overs for many Dorling Kindersley CD-ROMs.

Before his film and television work, he taught in Morocco and later became a master carpenter at the Palace Theatre.

Partial filmography

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References

  1. Jack Reacher.
  2. "Jack Reacher narrator explains why he's delighted to read for RNIB's Talking Books service".