Michael Angelis (born 18 January 1952) is an English actor and voice artist.
He trained at the College of Dramatic Art, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, where, inter alia, he played roles in Brendan Behan's The Hostage and The Zykovs by Maxim Gorky.
Michael Angelis featured in the BBC drama serial Boys from the Black Stuff (1982) and another Alan Bleasedale drama G.B.H.. He has also appeared in comedies such as The Liver Birds (1975-78), as Lucien Boswell, and much later in Luv (1993-94). In 1983, he appeared at the Manchester Royal Exchange in Harold Pinter's 'The Caretaker'. He was a villain in the revived television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002), alongside former fellow Black Stuff star Alan Igbon.
Angelis has narrated the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends series from 1991, when he took over from Ringo Starr. Angelis was originally intended to provide some of the voices in the film adaptation of the series, Thomas & the Magic Railroad, but he was dropped from the project when U.S. test audiences thought he made the characters he originally voiced Henry, James, Percy and Gordon, sound too old. In 2007, he was reported to have stepped down from his role, with Pierce Brosnan taking over the role. However, Brosnan's narration was heard only in one feature special The Great Discovery, and Angelis has continued to provide the narration since then. Angelis also narrated John Peel's autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes, on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
In 2006 he starred in the film Fated, set in his hometown of Liverpool, as well as in episodes of Midsomer Murders and The Bill in 2007.
Angelis was married to the Coronation Street actress Helen Worth, but the couple divorced in 2001.
In September 2011 he participated in the BBC Radio 4 programme The Reunion talking with others cast members about his roles in the Boys from the Blackstuff
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