Age: 60
male
Robert "Rob" Rackstraw (born 31 October 1965 in Sunderland) is a British voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his various voices in the television series Bob the Builder, mainly the scarecrow Spud. He has an extensive voice over career over 15 years long and is considered to be one of the UK's leading male voice actors. He also played the main villain Pew in The Legends of Treasure Island, and Captain Campion in Watership Down. He also wrote episodes of Avenger Penguins and Fantomcat. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Rackstraw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Rob Rackstraw
Scoop
for Scoop in Thomas and the Quest to Save Sodor.
Suggested by emmalinecooper
This is a story about a certain little blue tank engine who tried to save his hometown from urbanization and his friends from certain doom. It all started one day when Thomas, (played by Michael Brandon) saw three unfamiliar diesel engines named Wilson, Brewster and Koko and their boss, Vee the sentient PA system working together with Diesel 10 (played by Neil Crone) to get rid of steam engines and take over the Island of Sodor and turn it into a state of the art modernized city which they dub "Chuggington". At first, Thomas feels scared of losing his job, his boss, Sir Topham Hatt, aka the Fat Controller, (played by Keith Wickham) and more importantly his beloved town, his friends and his family. But with the help of his friends, James, (played by Rob Rackstraw) Percy, (played by Emmie Cooper) Emily, Rebecca, Nia, Gordon, (also played by Keith Wickham) Fireman Sam, (played by John Sparkes) Peppa Pig, Bluey, the Wiggles, (Greg Page, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt and Anthony Field) Barney the Dinosaur, (played by Bob West) Angelina Ballerina, (played by Finty Williams) Shaun the Sheep, (played by Justin Fletcher) Pingu the penguin, Kipper the dog, (played by Martin Clunes) Mike the Knight, Bob the Builder, (played by Neil Morrissey) Devious Diesel (also played by Michael Brandon) and Lady the magical, golden engine, (played by Glynis Barber) he'll soon rediscover that friendship and family love really do conquer all.
