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Patrick Tull 
Publicity photo of Patrick Tull (unknown date)Born 28 July 1941
Sussex, England, United KingdomDied 23 September 2006 (aged 65)
New York City, New York, United StatesOccupation Actor Patrick Tull (28 July 1941 – 23 September 2006) was a British stage, film and television actor.
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Early life and education
Tull was born in Sussex, England.
Career
Film and television work
Although never a regular cast member, Tull performed in a number of episodes of well-known BBC television series in the 1960s, including Z-Cars, and its spin-off Softly, Softly, the soap opera Crossroads and the comedy Dad's Army. He also was heard but not seen in an episode of Doctor Who.
Tull acted in three films including Parting Glances (1986), directed by Bill Sherwood.
Theatre work
On Broadway, he was a founding member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre, and appeared in the Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw.
Tull's off-Broadway credits include What the Butler Saw and The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and the critically acclaimed Some Voices at the Greenwich Street Theatre.
He was a part of many productions in regional theaters throughout the U.S.
Tull received high praise for his work in the one-man play "The Hero of the Slocum", based on the Eric Blau's account of the greatest U.S. maritime disaster of the 20th century.
Narrator and reader
Tull is the first of only two people – the other being Simon Vance – to have recorded the entire Aubrey-Maturin series of nautical historical novels by Patrick O'Brian in complete and unabridged form. O’Brian once expressed disapproval of a dramatic rendition of recorded novels (“To revert to my ideal reader: he would avoid obvious emotion, italics and exclamation marks like the plague – trying to put life into flat prose is as useful as flogging a dead horse”[1]). Many of Tull's listeners disagree. His lively dramatization of the characters, especially Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, and his comprehensive command of the dialects and tenor of the novels endeared him to many O’Brian fans.
He also narrated a number of television and documentary films including the seventeen-part series Sea Tales for the A&E television channel, some of which are available on DVD. He was also one of the most prolific narrators of recorded books in the U.S., featured on 104 productions.
In 2003, Tull performed in the world premiere of "Sydney the Sea Squid" for orchestra and narrator with music by Paul Stuart and text by Barbara Stewart with the Equinox Symphony Orchestra (with Stuart conducting) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, located in Rochester, New York.
In May 2005, Tull narrated the debut performance of jazz composer and trombonist Ron Westray's Chivalrous Misdemeanors (based on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes) with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
Personal life
He was a long-term resident of New York City, New York, where he passed away on the morning on September 23, 2006 following a lengthy illness.
See also
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Categories:- 1941 births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century actors
- 20th-century British people
- 20th-century men
- 21st-century actors
- 21st-century British people
- 21st-century men
- Actors from New York City
- English film actors
- English soap opera actors
- English stage actors
- English voice actors
- Audio book narrators
- English expatriates in the United States
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