Michael Angelis

[scots region]

Hello all, it my sad task today to report that Michael Angelis, the TV actor, but I imagine most well known to us as the dulcet toned Liverpudlian narrator of Thomas and Friends, has died aged 68. In this dark time of mass death morning a single man could seem gauche, but some people have a formative impact upon you without even knowing it. I understand that most of us will have moved on from Thomas and Friends, some will even be old enough to have avoided it entirely, but for me Thomas was not just a gateway to this hobby but a way of figuring out the world as I came to terms with being on the autistic spectrum. As a child, awkward, high strung and frequently in trouble Angelis’s narrations were my only friend for a long time. Here was a place where there was order instead of somewhere were the rules changed just as you worked them out. There was a sense that there was a solidness to the world, that authorities had the best of intentions for me and things would work out in the end. And as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned that there often is no order to things, that authorities don’t always have good or even decent intentions, that resolution requires effort. Which is not to lambaste the show or the late mr Angelis, order is after all as much an escapist dream for some as chaotic free expression is for others. It’s merely my honest thoughts.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/michael-angelis-thomas-the-tank-engine-narrator-and-auf-wiedersehen-pet-star-dies-11997794

 

ScR

[Kris]

A voice of my childhood, and of my children's childhood gone. Poop poop.

[A Murphy]

A great actor. I am really sad to hear this. RIP Michael Angelis.

 

Alastair M

[Steamport Southport]

To my generation he was always Lucien from the Liver Birds or Crissy from Boys From The Black Stuff.

 

If you've never seen the latter, do so as it's an absolute classic and shows mass unemployment in the late 1970s and early 1980s in a truer light rather than saying everyone on the dole is benefit scroungers. Also proved he could do gritty drama as well as comic roles.

 

 

 

Jason

[Gravy Train]

Very sad and a youngster to at 68.

was he one of the Actors in ‘ Boys From the black stuff’, in the 80s series?

[43110andyb]

Always a favourite for me whatever he was in! Thomas the tank along with Ringo legendary. 

 

  Ps - reports say he was 76 not 68 -but that’s no consolation!!!

[Legend]

Yes another one gone !  Don't wish to trivialise it  and thoughts with his family and friends , but to me its  another of that generation that I grew up with . I remember Boys from the Black Stuff but to me he will always be the very laid back ,spaced out Lucien in the Liver Birds .