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Garrick Hagon

British-Canadian actor (born 1939)

Summary

British-Canadian actor (born 1939)

Field	Value
name	Garrick Hagon
image	Garrick Hagon at Noris Force Con.jpg
caption	Hagon in 2011
birth_date
birth_place	London, England
occupation	Actor
citizenship	Canada
years_active	1953–present
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Garrick Hagon (; born September 27, 1939) is a British-Canadian actor. He is known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message. He was the rebel leader Ky in the Doctor Who serial The Mutants, and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's The Archers.

Early life and career

Hagon was born on September 27, 1939, in London and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended UTS and Trinity College (Hon. English, 1963). He acted with Alec Guinness in Richard III at the Stratford Festival, where he played for seven seasons and won the Tyrone Guthrie Award in 1963. He guest-starred (as Johnnie Nipick) in the episode The River in the CBC television series The Forest Rangers in 1964. After studying for a spell with the Royal Court Theatre Studio in London, Hagon then acted with Prospect Productions, in many repertory theatres, in the West End in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (as Chris Kellar) and at the Royal National Theatre in After The Fall.

As a voice actor, he has been heard in many films and television series, including the UK dub of Star Fleet/X-Bomber (as Capt. Carter), the Manga Entertainment U.K. dubbed versions of the Lupin III films, The Secret of Mamo and Goodbye Lady Liberty, and in Akira Kurosawa's Ran. His voice is featured in the video game, Divinity II: Ego Draconis and he has recorded over 150 audiobooks for major UK publishers. Hagon has also directed over 100 audiobook recordings, including Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother read by Ian McKellen, and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

In the original version of Star Wars: A New Hope, Hagon's role as Biggs Darklighter, Red 3, came to an early but heroic end in the attack on the Death Star in the film's climactic battle scene. In the 2011 Blu-ray release of the Star Wars films, Biggs's establishing scene at Anchorhead on Tatooine can be seen in full along with the characters of Fixer and Camie, played by Anthony Forrest and Koo Stark, respectively. Because of his performance as Biggs, Hagon has been invited to several sci-fi conventions and inducted into "Rebel Legions" and "501st Garrisons" - two Star Wars fandom groups - around the world.

Hagon's film roles include: Dad in Tim Burton's Batman, Ammar in Moustapha Akkad's The Message, CIA Director Wilson in Tony Scott's Spy Game, Dr. Mewling in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, Fr. Loughton in Xie Jin's The Opium War, Lt. Rafferty in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far, the British General in Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, Eros in Charlton Heston's Antony and Cleopatra, Jack Ives in Michael Pressman's Some Kind of Hero, and the American doctor in Olivier Dahan's La Vie en rose. In 2006, he appeared in an episode of The Line of Beauty.

In 2012, Hagon appeared in Doctor Who series 7 episode 3, "A Town Called Mercy". He also appeared in the video game Batman: Arkham Knight as Henry Adams.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Eros
1976	The Message	Ammar
1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Driver Alfie
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	Biggs Darklighter (Red Three)
A Bridge Too Far	Lieutenant Rafferty
The Spy Who Loved Me	USS Wayne Crewman
1979	Winterspelt	Lieutenant Evans
Julius Caesar	Octavius Caesar	Television film
1984	A Talent for Murder	Mark Harrison	Television film
1985	Lace II	Accountant	Television film
1986	The Last Days of Patton	Lt. Col. Walter Kerwin	Television film
1987	Tomorrow's a Killer	Chambers
Nowhere to Hide	William Devlin
Rolling Vengeance	Vic's Lawyer
Cry Freedom	McElrea
1989	Batman	Tourist Dad
1990	The Rift	Barton
1991	Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission	Additional voices	English dub
1994	Fatherland	Elliot
1995	Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo	Goemon Ishikawa XIII	title=Garrick Hagon (visual voices guide)	url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Garrick-Hagon/	access-date=July 14, 2025	publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
1995	Balto	Telegraph Operator	Voice
1996	Mission Impossible	CNN Reporter
1996	Lupin the 3rd: Goodbye Lady Liberty	Goemon Ishikawa XIII	Voice; English dub
1997	The Opium War	Missionary
2001	Spy Game	CIA Director Wilson
2002	The Magnificent Ambersons	Tom Kinney	Television film
2004	In My Country	Pilot
2005	The Jacket	Defense Lawyer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Denver Reporter
2007	The Walker	Mungo Tenant
2008	Me and Orson Welles	Dr. Mewling
Is Anybody There?	Douglas
2009	Into the Storm	Harry Hopkins
Ninja	Professor Garrison
2012	Red Lights	Howard McColm
Erased	James Halgate III
2013	RED 2	Davis
2015	Elstree 1976	Himself
2017	The Current War	Attorney General
2020	The Haunting of Margam Castle	Dean Michaels

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Doctor Who	Ky	6 episodes (The Mutants serial)
1972–73	The Adventurer	Gavin Jones	10 episodes
1973	Moonbase 3	Bruno Ponti	3 episodes
Thriller	Peter	Episode: "The Colour of Blood"
1974	Colditz	Lt. Jim Phipps	2 episodes
1975–76	Couples	Gary	9 episodes
1976	Z-Cars	Clown	Episode: "Kidnap"
1978	Return of the Saint	Abdul Hakim	Episode: "One Black September"
Lillie	Bury Dasent	Miniseries
1980	Armchair Thriller	Walters	3 episodes
Oppenheimer	Frank Oppenheimer	Miniseries
1983	Philip Marlowe, Private Eye	Denny	Episode: "Smart Aleck Kill"
1987	A Perfect Spy	Grant Lederer	Miniseries
1988	War and Remembrance	Sam Jones	Miniseries
1990–91	Moomin	Hemulen	77 episodes
1992	Love Hurts	Jeff Saganski	2 episodes
Tropical Heat	Stevens	Episode: "Twice as Dead"
1993	The Chief	OIM Bergholtz	Episode: "A Long Cold Lonely Winter"
1994	Scarlett	Samuel	Miniseries
1994	Tokyo Babylon	Shinji Nagumo	English dub
1996	Dalziel and Pascoe	Mr. Bergmann	Episode: "An Autumn Shroud"
2001	Legend of the Dragon Kings	Kengo Takabayashi	Voice
2003	Cambridge Spies	Klaus Fuchs	Miniseries
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Joseph Frady	Episode: "The Seed of Cunning"
2006	The Line of Beauty	Morden Lipscome	Miniseries
The Eagle	Canino	2 episodes
2012	Doctor Who	Abraham	Episode: "A Town Called Mercy"
2015	Wallander	Steven Wilson	Episode: "The Troubled Man"
2016	The Crown	John Foster Dulles	Episode: "Scientia Potentia Est"
2017–19	The Amazing World of Gumball	Mayor of Elmore/Bernie (voice role), Superintendent Evil (live-action role)	5 episodes

Video game

Year	Title	Role
2001	Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive	Doc McCoy
2005	Pac-Man World 3	Ancient Hero
2011	Operation Flashpoint: Red River	Additional Voices
2014	Randal's Monday	Bum
2015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Henry Adams
2016	Deponia Doomsday	Vincent
2017	Augmented Empire	Hartman
2017	Horizon Zero Dawn	Kaeluf/Kindiv
2018	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	Enoi/High Priest Kasu

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1953	Richard III	Edward, Prince of Wales	Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario
1959	Othello	Officer to Othello
1960	King John	Messenger/French Herald
1961	Love's Labour's Lost	Marcadé
King Henry VIII	Messenger/Attendant to Wolsey
Coriolanus	Roman Citizen
1962	The Taming of the Shrew	Lucentio
1963	Troilus and Cressida	Patroclus
Timon of Athens	Caphis
1964	Richard II	Green
Love's Labour's Lost	Marcadé
Timon of Athens	Caphis
King Lear	Curan
1977	Macbeth		Derby Playhouse, Derby
1979	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	Watford Palace Theatre, Watford
1981	All My Sons	Chris Keller	Wyndham's Theatre, London
1983	Love's Labour's Lost	Ferdinand	Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario
Much Ado About Nothing	Don John
1986	Fifth of July	Kenneth Talley Jr.	Bristol Old Vic, Bristol
1990	After the Fall	Dan	Royal National Theatre, London
1992	Life of the World to Come	Jay Snyder	Almeida Theatre, London
1993	The Little Foxes	Horace Giddens	Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
1994	The Dream Coast	Wilson	White Bear Theatre, London
1997	Macbeth	Ross	Bristol Old Vic, Bristol
1999	I Am Yours	Raymond	Royal Court Theatre, London

References

"Garrick Hagon theatre profile".
"CTVA Canada - "The Forest Rangers" (1963-65) Family Adv. Series".
"Garrick Hagon | Theatricalia".
"Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) - George Lucas | Cast and Crew | AllMovie".
(6 January 2017). "Being Biggs: A Conversation with Garrick Hagon".
"Garrick Hagon".
"The Love Chord (1983) (2006)".
"BBC One - Doctor Who, Series 7, A Town Called Mercy, A Town Called Mercy - Welcome to Mercy!".
(2015). "[[Batman: Arkham Knight]]". [[Warner Bros..
"Garrick Hagon (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors.

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