Ernest John Morris The OBE (June 20, 1916 - May 6, 1999) is a British television presenter. She is known for her children's programming for the BBC on zoology topics, especially the Animal Magic and to tell the series of imported, Canadian-produced Tales of the Riverbank stories about Hammy the Hamsters, Roderick the Rat, GP Guinea Pigs, and their diverse animal companions along the river bank.
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Morris was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of a principal. He learned to play the violin as a child and explore the valleys of South Wales, performing with his cello father. Morris attended Hatherleigh School, Newport, and worked as a lawyer's clerk, timekeeper on a building site, a salesman and managing 2,000 acres (8,1 km km 2 ) land in Wiltshire for thirteen years.
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Radio and television career
Morris was found telling a story in a pub by BBC Home West Regional Producer West Desmond Hawkins. Morris made radio dà ©  © but in 1946, and was featured in a number of regional series throughout the 1950s often used in light and entertainment programs as storytellers, such as at Pass the Salt , or as commentators. at local events.
A natural mimic and impersonator, Morris first appeared on television as The Hot Chestnut Man, a short slit in which he was shown sitting roasting chestnuts. He will tell the funny thread in a West Country accent, often ending with morals.
In 1960 he narrated a series of ghost stories imported from Canada, about stories about Hammy the Hamster, Roderick the Rat, the Guinea Pig Grandmother, and their animal friends along the river bank. The show uses slowed recording of real animals that are filmed doing humanized things like driving a car or boat, and staying in homes. In the 1960s, Morris also narrated the book 1-11 of The Railway Stories, recording the books of the Series of Trains by Rev. W. Awdry. Records from the first eight books were re-released in LP format in the 70s but three other record sets were never reissued and ultimately re-recorded by Willie Rushton.
Morris's ability to create a world that can be attributed to children through his mimicry leads to his most famous role, the presenter, the narrator and the 'zookeeper' for the Animal Magic. For more than 400 editions, from 1962 to 1983, and with inserts at the Bristol Zoo Gardens, Morris will have a comic dialogue with the animals, which he also speaks. Her regular friend on the show was Dotty the Ring-tailed Lemur. When the idea of ​​imposing human quality and sound on animals falls from the favor of the series is stopped. Morris very rarely works with spiders, has a phobia that he wants to keep away from the public.
Morris brings comedic commentary techniques into other programs, such as Follow the Rhine , a BBC2 trip that includes a humorous Morris comment featuring his friend Tubby Foster - in fact his producer Brian Patten. Follow Rhine is based on the previous Morris BBC Radio 4 series Johnny's Jaunts . The series notes not only the Rhine journey but other worldwide travel and aired between 1957 and 1976. Included in this series is a fairy tale based on his visits to places such as Austria (skiing misfortune!), Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South America, South Sea Islands, France; and even a cruise on the Thames.
Morris was also Vice President of the Bluebell Railway in Sussex since the early 1960s until the late 1980s, attending several important warnings and events during the first few decades of the railway. He also made two promotional LPs for the train in the 1970s.
In the 1970s, Morris read stories before bedtime for the Post Office to be heard over the phone. Kids can call 150 and hear different stories over the phone every week. He was also a presenter at BBC Schools Radio's Singing Together and wrote and read stories on BBC Schools Radio's A Service for Schools and later renamed Together .
In nodding for his role with Animal Magic , Morris also added his voice to the award-winning electric ad creative series, created by Aardman Animations. These ads feature animated claymation animals that talk about their lives and conditions in a manner comparable to the dialogues Morris has made on previous television shows.
Despite the recent criticism of the 1990s because his anthropomorphic techniques introduced television viewers to animals, Morris was active in the environment, and in his eighties demonstrated against Newbury Bypass development near his home. In June 2004, Morris and Bill Oddie were jointly profiled in the first part of the BBC's Two-part series, The Way We Went Wild, about television wildlife presenter.
Morris was awarded the OBE in 1984. His autobiography, Ada Indah , was first published in 1989.
Death
A diabetic, Morris fainted at his home in Hungerford, Berkshire, in March 1999 when he will star in the new series of Wild Thing in ITV. Recognized at Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon for tests, he was taken to a nursing home in Devizes and Marlborough districts, where he died on May 6, 1999. His wife, Eileen, had died ten years earlier; he has two steps. He left his home to co-host in Terry Nutkins, a large sum of cash to his housekeeper, Rita Offer, and a smaller amount for his gardener and builder but he left nothing to his stepper, stepson, and stepson - perhaps because of a failed business partnership that cost him £ 500,000.
Bibliography
Morris is also a writer. His books include:
- Just Like You and Me - ISBN 0-900873-66-3
- Around the World in Twenty Five - ISBN 978-0718122294 (Which is also a radio series for the BBC.)
References
External links
- Johnny Morris on IMDb
- Johnny Morris at the UK Film Institute Screenonline
- BBC Obituary - Johnny Morris
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