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Occupation
  
Actor

Role
  
Actor


Name
  
Heron Carvic

Years active
  
1934 - 1964

Education
  
Eton College

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Full Name
  
Geoffrey Rupert William Harris

Born
  
21 January 1913
London, England

Died
  
February 9, 1980, Ashford, United Kingdom

Books
  
Picture Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton draws the line

Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best Novel

Similar People
  
Phyllis Neilson‑Terry, Fred Terry, Julia Neilson

Picture Miss Seeton- A Cozy Mystery by Heron Carvic


Heron Carvic (born Geoffrey Rupert William Harris, 21 January 1913 – 9 February 1980) was an English actor and writer who provided the voice for Gandalf in the BBC Radio version of The Hobbit, and played Caiaphas the High Priest every time the play cycle The Man Born to be King was broadcast.

Contents

As a writer he created the characters and wrote the first five books featuring retired art teacher Miss Emily D. Seeton, a gentle parody of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. These have been re-issued as e-books in 2016.

Ten years after Carvic's death, his books were re-issued in the U.S.A. and proved sufficiently popular for his Estate to commission further Miss Seeton stories from two other writers using pseudonyms with "HC" initials. Roy Peter Martin as "Hampton Charles" wrote three novels, which were all released in 1990. Sarah J. Mason, writing as "Hamilton Crane", then took up the series.

Early life

He ran away from Eton, and his father, to France to earn a living for himself, and took his stage name as it derived from his grandmother but would "spare the sensibilities of his outraged family". He met Phyllis Neilson-Terry when he was 23 (she was 20 years older), but they did not marry until 1958, when the register of marriages in July, August and September lists Phyllis J King marrying both Heron Carvic and Geoffrey Harris.

Filmography

  • Honeymoon for Three (1935)
  • Doctor Who ... as Morpho (voice) in the serial The Keys of Marinus
  • The Avengers ... as Five in episode "Square Root of Evil"
  • Police Surgeon ... as Barrister in episode "Under the Influence"
  • References

    Heron Carvic Wikipedia