Mark Wing-Davey
Mark Wing- Davey ( born November 30, 1948 in London, England ) is a British actor and theater director.
Life
Wing- Davey studied at Cambridge University, where he was a member of the theater club Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club 1967-1970. Other prominent members of this club have included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle of Monty Python and Simon Jones and Douglas Adams.
With the latter two, he worked on his most famous role, the two-headed president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, both in the BBC radio play as well as in the subsequent TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 1983 he played the Earl of Warwick in the teleplay to William Shakespeare's three-part drama Henry VI and Sir James Tyrrel in Richard III. He also guest starred in several British television series such as Dempsey & Makepeace and Absolutely Fabulous. In 2003, he repeated his role as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the sequels of the radio play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Life, the Universe and Everything and So Long, and Thanks for the fish. He also spoke on the role of Judge Ghis in the computer game Final Fantasy XII.
After that, he worked mainly in the theater as an actor and director, among other things, on the off-Broadway production Unconditional, which is listed by Philip Seymour Hoffman's theater group LAByrinth Theater Company.