Ray Brooks
ActingBiography
Ray Brooks was a British actor famous for his role as the narrator in the classic children's cartoon series Mr Benn, for the films The Knack...And How To Get It, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150AD and Cathy Come Home, and for the TV series Big Deal and Growing Pains. In later years he played Joe Macer, the husband and murderer of Albert Square stalwart Pauline Fowler, in the BBC's long running soap opera EastEnders and has wrote several books, including his autobiography. He died at the age of 86 on 9th August 2025 following a short illness. He had been living with dementia in his final years.
Movies
(24 total)
Carry On Abroad
as Giorgio
H.M.S. Defiant
as Hayes
House of Whipcord
as Tony
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as 5 of Spades
Cathy Come Home
as Reg Ward
Baffled!
as George Tracewell
That's Carry On!
as Giorgio (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tiffany Jones
as Guy
Assassin
as Craig
Play It Cool
as Freddy
The Last Grenade
as Lt. David Coulson
Some People
as Johnnie
Office Romances
as Gordon Spelle
The Cherry Orchard
as Yasha
Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!
as Narrator (voice)
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
as Peter Queech
TV Shows
(27 total)
EastEnders
as Joseph "Joe" Macer
The Avengers
as Farrington
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Tony Timson
Mr. Benn
as Narrator
Play for Today
as Raymond Collis
Dalgliesh
as Henry Kerrison
BBC Play of the Month
as Yasha
Wogan
as Self
Doomwatch
as Geoff Harker
Gideon's Way
as Frank Romano
Death of an Expert Witness
as Dr. Henry Kerrison
Theatre 625
as Philip
Theatre 625
as Albert Smith
Big Deal
as Robby Box
The Pickwick Papers
as Narrator
The Expert
as Eric Redmond