Kerry Shale

Birth Name:

Kerry Shale

Birth Place:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack, Music department

Won two Sony Awards for his radio adaptation of "Dr․ Strangelove," one for acting and one for writing
Was nominated for Best Actor in the TMA Regional Theatre Awards for his performance as a mysterious entertainment attorney in "Disappeared․"
His first job as an actor came in 1978 in the West End musical "Bar Mitzvah Boy․"
Quote: "You normally kiss the back of your hand on radio, but Kathleen Turner, some years later, insisted that mouth-to-mouth would work better․ I don't know if she was right, but it was a lot more interesting․"
Quote: "I once re-voiced a 6 foot 4 inch villain in a Bond flick․ (I'm 5 foot 4 but I can sound 6 foot 4․)"
Some of favorite acting jobs were playing condemned murderer Earl Holub in the play "His Girl Friday" and uber-agent Swifty Lazar in the original cast of "Frost/Nixon․"
His reading of "A Confederacy of Dunces" helped him break into radio and eventually led to him performing the radio readings of Bill Bryson's books
Broke the Guinness world record for providing the most voices for a single video game with "Dog's Life․"
Stated that he owns a videotape of him presenting a children's series called "Let's Pretend" that he won't ever let anyone besides his wife see
Played up to 26 characters a night in his solo shows

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