John Sparkes was born on 6 January 1954 and is a Welsh comedian and actor.
10 Facts About John Sparkes
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John Sparkes portrayed Barry Welsh, presenter of the HTV Wales series Barry Welsh Is Coming.
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John Sparkes has had major roles in Naked Video, Absolutely, Fireman Sam, Shaun the Sheep, and Jeff Global's Global Probe, and is the narrator of the children's television show Peppa Pig.
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John Sparkes starred in the sketch show Naked Video, where he played Siadwel, the geeky South Wales poet who wore an anorak and glasses.
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John Sparkes was one of the team behind the Channel 4 sketch show Absolutely, which ran for four years between 1989 and 1993.
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John Sparkes provides the voice of the narrator and some other characters in the children's animated series Peppa Pig, in which the voice of fellow Absolutely star Morwenna Banks is featured.
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John Sparkes has written and presented three ongoing television series of Great Pubs of Wales for ITV Wales.
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John Sparkes has voiced the unseen character of archivist Goronwy, in a section of Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention for BBC One and has written and presented Ghost Story, in which he spent the night alone with a camcorder in haunted houses around Wales.
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John Sparkes has co-written and presented Doug Strong's Special Places, a factual comedy series for ITV Wales and ITV Central.
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John Sparkes is married to Beverly and they have two grown-up daughters.