Which famous character in commercials was played by John Hewer
"John Hewer John Hewer (13 January 1922 – 16 March 2008) was an English actor and manager. He was born in Leyton, London. A stalwart of London's Players Theatre throughout his career, he appeared in musical theatrical productions such as ""Sail Away"" and ""Six of One"" in London's West End theatre, but the highlight of his theatrical career was starring opposite Julie Andrews in ""The Boy Friend"" on Broadway in the 1950s. His television work included hosting the 1970s Canadian CTV variety series ""The Pig and Whistle"", but he his most familiar role was as the fictitious sailor Captain Birdseye,"
"the mascot for Birds Eye frozen foods in scores of British TV commercials from 1967 to 1998. Residing in Epping in his later years and finally Brinsworth House in Twickenham, London, Hewer died aged 86 on Sunday, 16 March 2008. John Hewer John Hewer (13 January 1922 – 16 March 2008) was an English actor and manager. He was born in Leyton, London. A stalwart of London's Players Theatre throughout his career, he appeared in musical theatrical productions such as ""Sail Away"" and ""Six of One"" in London's West End theatre, but the highlight of his theatrical career was starring"
"magazine ""Attitude"", as part of a ""Gays on TV"" feature which included stars from ""Skins"", ""Hollyoaks"", ""Coronation Street"" and ""Shameless"". He also appeared nude in the June 2008 issue of ""Cosmopolitan"" in aid of testicular cancer research. Hewer starred in the music drama ""Britannia High"", in the role of Danny Miller. He also appears on the ""Britannia High"" soundtrack. He also appeared on the popular ITV and ITV2 shows ""Xtra Factor"", ""This Morning"", ""Richard and Judy's New Position"" and on the BBC comedy show ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks"" alongside team captain Davina McCall and singer Alesha Dixon. In December 2009,"
"of many celebrities to help promote the change in the UK pension scheme to automatic enrolment. In 2013, he worked with Vista Print on their ""Build Your Small Business"" campaign, and in 2014 worked with Bark.com to promote their services marketplace product. Since 2014, Nick has been a brand ambassador for Norwich-based ISO provider QMS International. On their acquisition by Citation in 2015, Nick also became a brand ambassador for the Citation Health & Safety and Employment Law service. Hewer and ex-Amstrad owner Alan Sugar became friends through their working relationship. He became one of Sugar's advisers on ""The Apprentice"""
"came up with a campaign that used the talents of comics Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. The agency was also known for its work on Isuzu (creating the fictional spokesman Joe Isuzu), Beck's Beer, Chemical Bank, Dow Brands (Fingerman), and Pan Am. Their most famous campaign was the Meow Mix Theme, conceived by Ron Travisano and composed by David Lucas of Lucas/McFaul, which featured an apparent singing cat. In 1981, they won the account for the New York Mets, marking the first time a Major League Baseball team had hired an ad agency. By 1985, when Travisano sold his shares"
"John McGiver John Irwin McGiver (November 5, 1913 – September 9, 1975) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. The owl-faced, portly character actor with his mid-Atlantic accent and precise diction, was often cast as pompous Englishmen and other stuffy, aristocratic and bureaucratic types. He was known for his performances in such films as ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961); ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1962); and ""Who's Minding the Store?"" (1963). He appeared on many television shows and commercials during the 1960s and early 1970s,"
"the United Kingdom. The Tea Folk have provided some of the most memorable advertising on Britain's television screens. Some well known lines include: These, along with the original Tetley tune, and some notable soundtracks (Bill Withers’ ""Lovely Day"", Irving Berlin’s ""Keep Me Warm"", and ""Reach Out I’ll Be There"" by Holland, Holland and Dozier), have made Tetley’s Tea Folk adverts some of the most instantly recognisable ever seen. The characters' voices have been supplied by some distinguished actors throughout the campaign. For many years, Gaffer’s distinctive voice was provided by Brian Glover. He was later replaced by former ""Emmerdale"" star"
"during the American Civil War. Hathaway is most famous for its ""man with an eye patch"" advertising campaign created by Ogilvy & Mather in 1951. Inspired by a picture of public servant Lewis Douglas, who had lost an eye in a fishing accident, David Ogilvy recruited Baron George Wrangell, a Russian aristocrat with 20/20 vision, to appear in the ads. The campaign was selected by Advertising Age as #22 on its list of the greatest ad campaigns of the 20th century. The ""Hathaway man"" reappeared in a 1993 sketch on Saturday Night Live, played by Phil Hartman sans moustache. The"
"presented a Party Election Broadcast for the British Labour Party. In October 2013, Harewood voiced an interactive video campaign for the British Lung Foundation aiming to ban smoking in cars with children on board in the United Kingdom. In June 2014, he appeared in ""Tulip Fever"". In October 2015, he appeared as a core cast member on the CBS television series ""Supergirl"" as Hank Henshaw. Since his character was revealed (in the episode ""Human for a Day"") to be J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter posing as Henshaw, he portrays J'onn J'onzz with Henshaw's likeness as his human form and has a dual"
"Uecker has had a number of acting roles in ads, TV shows and movies. He played the character of father and sportswriter George Owens on the 1985-1990 sitcom ""Mr. Belvedere"", appearing regularly. He also appeared in a series of Miller Lite commercials starting in the 1980s. In one commercial from that decade, Uecker was seen preparing to watch a baseball game when an usher informs him he is in the wrong seat. Uecker pompously remarks, ""I must be in the ""front"" row"", which became another of his catchphrases. The punch line was that Uecker's seat was actually in the nosebleed"
"company of giants started with several iconic advertising campaigns: former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, did a commercial for Good Luck Margarine in 1959. In his autobiography, Ogilvy On Advertising, he said it had been a mistake to persuade her to do the ad – not because it was undignified, but because he had grown to realize that putting celebs in ads is a mistake. """"The man in the Hathaway shirt"""" with his aristocratic eye patch which used George Wrangel as model; """"The man from Schweppes is here"""" introduced Commander Edward Whitehead, the elegant bearded Brit, bringing Schweppes (and ""Schweppervescence"") to"
"technology company which aired TV commercials (""""That someday is today ... at Honeywell"""") well-known at the time of the original Muppet Show. Honeydew's experiments usually cause great harm to his very nervous and long-suffering assistant Beaker, a nearly mute Muppet with a shock of reddish hair. Honeydew worked alone in the first season of ""The Muppet Show"", but from the second season onward, the luckless Beaker would always be present. Some of the inventions that were created and tested included: edible paper clips, a gorilla detector, hair-growing tonic, banana sharpener, a robot politician (played by Peter Ustinov) and an electric"
"save people money on their insurance. This was to which he responded with his famous catchphrase: ""oh yes!"". The catchphrase is believed to be an impersonation of Potter the Janitor (played by Deryck Guyler) from the 1970s television series ""Please Sir!"". Churchill was voiced by Bob Mortimer. Older adverts had Mortimer's voice responding to questions, posed by his comedy partner Vic Reeves. In April 2005, however, Reeves was removed from the adverts, after he was convicted of drink driving. In 2004, a Churchill hot air balloon was unveiled, and was the United Kingdom’s largest special shaped hot air balloon. It"
"Hector the Tax Inspector Hector the Tax Inspector, also known as Hector the Taxman was the advertising figurehead of the former British government taxation department, Inland Revenue and was originally intended to remind people to return their self-assessment tax returns on time. Animated by Snowden Fine Animation (the same studio that did ""Bob and Margaret""), Hector was first used in 1995 as the advertising personality of self-assessment tax returns. and also as a way to put a human face on the Inland Revenue. He was voiced in television adverts by Alec Guinness. It was believed that the usage of Hector"
"of the 1990s included appearances in ""All Together Now"", ""The Games"", ""State Coroner"", ""Blue Heelers"", ""Something in the Air"" and ""Neighbours"". He also provided the voice for Captain Griswald in Anthony Lucas' animated short film ""The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello"" (2005). In the 1990s he appeared in a well-remembered television commercial advertisement for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil. He was also known for playing a recurring character of a Mafia-boss like butcher in advertisements for Don Smallgoods. In the early 2000s he continued his Goggomobil persona advertising Shannons Insurance."
"brief appearance as a fire-breather in the James Bond film Octopussy. He played a school teacher in the 2002 film ""About a Boy"". He appeared in Tim Burton's 2005 ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". He played a roles in ""Confetti"" (2006), ""Tunnel of Love"" (2004), ""Stardust"" (2007), and ""The World's End"" (2013). In 2008 he co-starred in the surreal science fiction film ""Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth"". In 2009 he appeared as a car salesman in a SEAT television advert. Heap voices the fox in the Old Speckled Hen adverts sponsoring comedy on Dave. In 2008 Heap played"
"taking over the role from Crispin Glover, who declined. For the role, Weissman wore extremely heavy makeup to have him resemble Glover, and most of his scenes were shot with him either upside down or in the background (which led to Glover suing the producers for using his likeness without his permission). He has appeared in roles in feature films including ""Pale Rider"" and """". He has also made guest appearances on television shows such as ""Saved by the Bell"", ""The Man Show"", ""Dallas"", ""Max Headroom"", ""Scarecrow and Mrs. King"", ""Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Spectacular"", and ""Divorce Court"". His commercial"
"1923 he entered the advertising company of S.H. Benson and became, what former colleague R.D. Bloomfield described as, ""the personification of the greatest days of English advertising"". It was in his time at Bensons that some of the best known advertising campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s were produced. The products advertised included Guinness, Bovril, Johnnie Walker and Colman’s Mustard (The Mustard Club). Bevan was behind most of them, and he was still handling the Guinness account in the 1950s when he commissioned John Nash to provide colour illustrations to ""Happy New Lear"" (1957). He was behind slogans such as"
"'No, Junior Mints are just funnier.'"" Many advertisers capitalized on the popularity of ""Seinfeld"". American Express created a webisode where Jerry Seinfeld and an animated Superman (voiced by Patrick Warburton, who played the role of Puddy) starred in its commercial. The makers of the Today Sponge created the ""Spongeworthy"" game, on their website, inspired by ""The Sponge"". An advertisement featured Jason Alexander in a Chrysler commercial. In this, Alexander acts much like his character George, and his relationship with Lee Iacocca plays on his George's relationship with Steinbrenner. Similarly, Michael Richards was the focus of a series of advertisements for"
"with the familiar green figure of today: he was a scowling caveman wearing a bearskin rather than foliage (this original concept actually owed much to a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale, ""Der Bärenhäuter"" – ""Bearskin""). In 1935 a young copywriter, Leo Burnett, revised the face of the brand: ""he traded the bearskin for a leafy suit, gave the Giant a smile...and put the word 'Jolly' in front of the Giant's name."" The Giant made his first television appearances in 1954, and was later voiced by Elmer Dresslar, Jr. The booming ""Ho, ho, ho"" became the Giant's signature tagline in 1961."
"Mayhem (advertising character) Mayhem is an advertising character created by Leo Burnett Worldwide for Allstate Insurance. Burnett pitched the character to Allstate as ""Mr. Mayhem"", comparing him to the character Mr. White from the 1992 film ""Reservoir Dogs"" played by Harvey Keitel. Mayhem has been played by Dean Winters since the campaign was launched in April 2010. The character wears a black suit, white dress shirt, and black necktie. The formula for almost every Mayhem commercial has been the same. To begin the commercial, a situation is set up with Mayhem explaining what is going on and hinting at what"
"own elaborate dancing and singing (""Wouldn't you like to see my doctor, too?""), which Shekter first uses as an opportunity to explain his work, and then grows alarmed (""These people should not be dancing!""). In the 1982 sex farce ""Beach Girls"", the slogan became ""I'm a popper, he's a popper..."" Wreck-Gar parodied the slogan in ""The Return of Optimus Prime"". After appearing in a series of commercials, David Naughton had his breakthrough film role as the main character in the John Landis film ""An American Werewolf in London"". Another famous ""I'm a Pepper"" dancer was Ray Bolger, the actor who"
"icons. His creative leadership and client relationships have seen successes in numerous groundbreaking animated campaign; Pepsi - chicken, two FedEx Super Bowl spots; Stick and Pigeon; iconic GE spots; Crane, Ellie, Scarecrow, Tree and Mammoth (never aired), nearly 100 GEICO Gecko commercials, Sour Patch Kids, the well loved M&M's characters and most recently Nigel the Owl for Xyzal. Hulin has also had close involvement in the development of Framestore’s proprietary real-time animation system which is currently being used by major brands. After his directorial debut with a campaign of documentary-style commercials for the GEICO Gecko in 2006, Hulin has also"
"eclectic mix of characters in dramatic and comedic stage, television and film productions opposite many noteworthy actors such as Hugh Laurie, Elijah Wood, Jeff Goldblum, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, Patrick Dempsey, and Laura Dern. He appears in and voices multiple national Ad campaigns for Dodge, Mountain Dew, Taco Bell, Nissan, Wendy’s and Carl's Jr. as well as animated characters for Warner Bros., Honda, Cartoon Network and worldwide industry leading gaming franchises such as Madden NFL 19, Game of the Year BAFTA Award winning Fallout 4 Titanfall 2, Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Battlefield Hardline and Rise of the Tomb Raider"
"Hewer between then and 1998 e.g. in 1986 advert for Birdsye Fish Fingers. After the retirement of the original actor, the brand was relaunched with a younger man with designer stubble (played by Thomas Pescod), but was less popular, and the character was dropped from Birdeye's advertising. A 2014 redesign of the brand's packaging includes artwork resembling the original Captain Bird's Eye. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, June Whitfield appeared in a series of television advertisements for Birds Eye products, featuring the concluding voice-over line: "".. it can make a dishonest woman of you!"". The series was the"
"and quickly became a top model for such companies as Prada, Club Med, and Tommy Hilfiger. He has appeared in many commercials including J.Crew, Subway, Toyota and Pepsi opposite Britney Spears. He took part in the music video for The Calling's ""Wherever You Will Go"", playing the new boyfriend of the betrayed teenage girl whose relationship is the subject of the video. He also featured in Jennifer Love Hewitt's 2002 music video ""BareNaked"". Fuller became known for playing Chris Halliwell on ""Charmed"", a starring and guest star role from seasons 5-8 of the show. In the series, his character is"
"fancy a pint?"" (played by Whitehouse), ""You ain't seen me, right!"" (a mysterious gangster-like character played by Mark Williams), ""I'll get me coat"" (Williams) and ""Ha!,"" a sarcastic elderly woman played by Weir. Other long-standing running jokes in the programme included the fictitious snack food ""Cheesy Peas"" in various forms, shapes and flavours, in satirical adverts presented by a twangy, Northern lad who claims, ""They're great for your teas!"" and has since become a reality thanks to UK TV chef Jamie Oliver. The dire earnestness of the born-again Christian was parodied in another popular group of sketches where various characters"
"commercials for products including Dimetapp, Days Inn, Lego (as one of the Wright brothers), and many more. He was also known for being the voice behind the animated children in General Mills Cereal commercials (1993–97). He was on Broadway with Nathan Lane and George C. Scott in ""On Borrowed Time"", He originated the role of Dill in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of To Kill A Mockingbird. He is also known for playing the role of Jeremy Marver in ""The Babysitter's Club"" episode Kristy and the Great Campaign Reifsynder began writing at the age of six, being one of ASCAP's"
"and famous spokespeople of the time. For example, a couple made references to popular ""Saturday Night Live"" skits: one with a Gilda Radner lookalike in her role as Roseanne Roseanneadanna in a Weekend Update skit for Rainier Lite commercial; another had characters called the R-Heads, which was a reference to the Coneheads, with Rainier 'R' logos on the top of their heads. Two commercials featured a Tarzan character where his yell is ""Raaaiiinn-iiieeer!"". A commercial featured a silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock who would morph into a beer bottle. Another commercial featured a John Houseman imitator when Houseman at the time"
"was a regular on the short-lived TV series, ""Sarge"", starring George Kennedy. He appeared as Oddjob in a series of TV commercials for ""Vicks"" Formula 44 cough syrup in the 1970s. The advertisement commonly showed Oddjob with a nasty cough, which results in him demolishing everything around him as his spasms make him inadvertently lash out, and frightening his wife as his condition grows worse and worse. She grabs a bottle of ""Vicks"" Formula 44 and gives Oddjob a spoonful of the cough syrup, which cures his cough; the two bow to each other, and then the wife looks past"
"at the American Place Theatre, Ephraim Kishon's ""Unfair To Goliath"" at the Cherry Lane, ""Skye"" at Lincoln Center and Frank Loesser's ""Greenwillow"" for the Equity Library Theatre. While working as a stage actor, he appeared in two legendary television commercials - first as a dancing raisin for Post Raisin Bran and then as the ""Lemon from Outer space"" with Madge the Manicurist for Palmolive. His television work includes regular stints as Father James on ""All My Children"", Judge Julius Weyburn on ""The Young and The Restless"", Officer Jerry Chandler on ""Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"" and the befuddled bailiff on NBC's"
"the Theatre Royal Winchester's production of Peter Pan, for which he received critical acclaim. Hansler has also provided the voice of Lucius Malfoy and other characters in three of the Harry Potter video games; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Hansler is notable for playing the lead character in a major 2013 advertising campaign for Cadbury, whilst other commercials include those for Dunkin' Donuts, Made.com, Unibet and Foxy Bingo. Jonathan Hansler Jonathan Hansler (born John Hansler Brittan) is an English actor. He"
"popular. One of the most watched ""I've got good news"" spots was a soap opera parody featuring television actor Sebastian Siegel. In another series of ads, a GEICO pitchman is played by actor Jerry Lambert in an extremely bland and understated way, parodying the stereotype of an insurance man, such as reading to a group of uninterested children from a book of fairy tales about insurance, watching a view of cats in the living room where a gecko is standing on the couch, relaxing on a hot tub with a couple, and a flashback about ""Honk If You Like"". In"