Tim Whitnall

On June 27, 1961, Timothy Charles Whitnall was born. Timothy Charles Whitnall is a dramatist, screenwriter, and actor from England. He is well known for his role as Angelo in the long-running CITV sitcom Mike and Angelo, as well as voicing the BBC children's TV show Teletubbies from 1997 to 2001. As a writer, he has received a BAFTA and an Olivier Award for his work on the television film Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story and the play Morecambe and Wise. He also works as a voice actor, lending his talents to series like Fifi and the Flowertots which is an animated family show out in 2005, Roary the Racing Car a British children’s show out it 2007, and Thomas & Friends out in 1984. Whitnall operates a production firm, Feather Productions Ltd, with his partner, Anna Murphy, in Richmond, London.

Whitnall debuted in the West End musical Elvis in 1977 after earning the part during an open call audition. Whitnall has been in several West End productions, including Grease, The Rocky Horror Show, and Good Rockin' Tonight. After appearing on television for the musicals in which he was engaged, he launched a career in television, hosting and writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Schools series, The Music Arcade alongside Lucie Skeaping, Let's Sing, Music Time, Time and Tune and Music Workshop.He also started acting, portraying Jake in the ITV children's drama The All Electric Amusement Arcade and Paul in the Play for Today Episode Not for the Likes of Us. Whitnall is also well-known for his work on voice-overs and singing for TV advertisements, cartoons, and jingles.

He performed as a presenter for The Children's Network from the late 1980s until the channel's closure in 2000, including supplying the voice for the station's mascot Link Anchorman in the early 1990s. In 1998, he also provided the voice for Woolworth's mascot Keith the Alien. In 1990, he took over the part of extra-terrestrial Angelo from Tyler Butterworth in the Children's sci-fi sitcom Mike and Angelo. He played the character for 10 seasons until the show was cancelled in 2000. Whitnall also had a 90-minute production named Best Possible Taste- The Kenny Everett Story, which analyzed and honored the life of Kenny Everett, aired on BBC Four in 2012. It starred Oliver Lansley and Katherine Kelly and was directed by James Strong and produced by Paul Frift. Whitnall received the Breakthrough Talent Award at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards in 2013 for it.