Martin Jarvis (actor)  Martin Jarvis, OBE (born 4 August 1941) is an English actor, voice actor and producer of radio drama. After a varied career in film and television, he has become particularly noted for his voice acting for radio and audiobooks. Jarvis was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, to Denys Harry Jarvis and Margot Lillian Scottney, and grew up in South Norwood and Sanderstead. He was educated at Whitgift School, an independent school in Croydon. Jarvis trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he won the Vanbrugh Award and the Silver Medal. He has acted in many stage productions in London and abroad, most recently acting alongside Diana Rigg and Natascha McElhone in Joanna Murray-Smith's "Honour" at London's Wyndham's Theatre until May 2006. He read Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" for the Chivers Audio Books production on cassette, later released on CD by Barnes & Noble Audio Classics. Jarvis appeared on Broadway in 2001 as P. G. Wodehouse's character Jeeves in the musical "By Jeeves", a performance for which he was awarded a Theatre World Award. Jarvis has had a long association with the BBC, particularly BBC Radio 4. In the 1980s Michael Frayn's columns for "The Guardian" and "The Observer", described by some as models of the comic essay, were adapted and performed in many voices for BBC Radio 4 by Jarvis. He read a four part adaptation of John Gordon (author)'s The Giant Under the Snow in 1981. He performs regularly in radio dramas and readings, both comic and serious. In David Mamet's "Mind Your Pantheon" he played the actor Strabo. He is known for his long series of readings of Richmal Crompton's "Just William" stories, which show his characteristic and flexible reading voices. He has also narrated the Billy Bunter series by Frank Richards. As a result of this extensive work, Jarvis has been satirised in the radio show "Dead Ringers" by Mark Perry, highlighting his seeming ubiquity in Radio 4 programmes and as a guest in Dictionary Corner on "Countdown". Jarvis has performed the role of Jeeves in multiple radio dramas based on P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, including the 1997 L.A. Theatre Works adaptation of "The Code of the Woosters", the 2014 BBC radio adaptation of "Ring for Jeeves", and the 2018 BBC radio adaptation of "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves".