Enn Reitel

Enn Reitel born 21 June 1950 is a Scottish actor who specialises in voice work in video games movies and TV shows Reitels family arrived in Scotland as refugees from Estonia and Germany He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama In 1982 Reitel starred in The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim a sitcom on BBC Two written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais Reitel played Jim Dixon based on the character created by Kingsley Amis He appeared on stage in Me and My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre in 1986 On television he worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and starred in the ITV sitcom Mog as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital pretending to be insane He played the lead role in the UK TV comedy series The Optimist which ran from 1983 for two series The programme was almost entirely silent In each episode The Optimist wandered through life doing his best to look on the bright side He was usually thwarted in his endeavours by the people he encountered He also appeared in the first series of the UK comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway In 2001 he appeared in a short film called Coconuts with Michael Palin in which they did a demonstration on how coconuts can be used in place of horses This film can be seen on the second disk of the collectors edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail