Norman Shelley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norman Shelley

British actor

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1903

Place of Birth: Chelsea, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1980

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor, dub actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 22 August 1980) was a British actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's Children's Hour.
He also had a recurring role as Colonel Danby in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers.Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in Children's Hour adaptations of A.A.
Milne's stories; for many British people of the mid-20th century, his is the definitive voice of Pooh. Other roles for Children's Hour included Dr.
Watson (opposite Carleton Hobbs as Holmes) in a series of adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories; Toad in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; and the roles of The Magician and Captain Higgins in the specially written Toytown series.
Shelley also played the parts of Gandalf and Tom Bombadil in the 1955-6 radio adaptation of J.
R.
R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In the 1973 BBC television series Jack the Ripper Shelley played Detective Constable Walter Dew.