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Benjamin Whitehead (born May 15, 1977) known professionally as Ben Whitehead, is a British actor. He is best known as the second actor to provide the voice of Wallace in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, replacing Peter Sallis the original voice actor for Wallace. Whitehead first started his acting career in 2003 working at Aardman Animations. He voiced Mr. Leaching in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit (2005), and Bob the Baker in Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008). In 2009, he became the second person to voice the character of Wallace in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, beside Peter Sallis, starting in the video game series Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (2009) which was a four-part, episodic, adventure game series by Telltale Games. In 2024 Whitehead voiced Wallace in the second feature film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024). Whitehead has also worked on many other films including The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012), So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012), Secrets of the Dark House (2013), A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015), Early Man (2018), We Are Most Amused and Amazed (2018), Views of the Shard (2021) and Eigengrau Half-Life (2023). He also voiced various characters in the TV series Berry Bees (2019-2020). In 2025 he provided the voiced of Keir Starmer and Howard Lutnick in the BBC Radio, play Churchill's Bust (2025). Benjamin Whitehead was born in 1977 in Cheshire, England, UK. His parents were both avid art enthusiasts. His parents encouraged his passion for acting and storytelling from a young age. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Whitehead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Ben Whitehead
Wallace
for Wallace in Harold and the Purple Crayon (TL-JRA)
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha (in his live-action feature-length directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Guion, Michael Handelman, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel and Jon Lovitz, This film takes place in the real life world of Rhode Island where fictional and cartoon characters live alongside real humans. In the film, After he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life. Later, Reformed chihuahua and Cartoon All-Star member Jonathan temporarily relocates his friends the Cartoon All-Stars to the real world when his old rival Gary Natwick seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Lyla and her friends, are augmented with superpowers from the Cartoon All-Star League (CASL), forming a superhero initiative known as the Super Loopsters.
