David Dixon (AKA Ford Prefect)
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Originally posted by Cat:
[b]Okay, Stephen Moore, the vocal artist for Marvin in both the Radio and Television series and also also the reader of the HH audio books has a sister (or half sister or whatever, I can’t remember exactly) who is/was a Lexxian.David Dixon got the role as Ford in the TV series when he was suggested by the secretary to the producer, Alan J W Bell, who had decided that Geoffrey McGivern (the voice of Ford from the radio series) was too ‘ordinary looking’.[/b]
An “ordinary looking voice”?
What, pray, does an “ordinary looking voice” look like? The mind boggles. I have a reputation here as being surreal and sometimes a trifle bizarre (there’s a really good joke there, by the way), but I believe I may be out of my depth with these people, Cat. Thanks. I shall now go off and practice the art of sounding ordinary looking….