Andrew Jack (dialect coach)
Andrew Jack was a British dialect coach and actor, from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982.
Early life
His father Stephen Jack was an actor in films, radio and television. His mother Julia was a horticulturist.Career
He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojans in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. He taught Evan Davis to speak with a Nottinghamshire twang. He was known for helping non-British actors to be more intelligible to the audience.Jack can also be seen in the Star Wars film series portraying Resistance Major Caluan Ematt in ' and '. He also voiced the character of Moloch in . The final film he was working on at the time of his death was The Batman.
Personal life
Jack was previously married to Felicity Filmore from 1974 to 1987, and to Paula Jack from 2000 to 2018; both marriages ended in divorce. Jack's widow Gabrielle Rogers is also a voice, accent and dialect coach who first started working in the film, television and theatre industries as an actor in the 1980s. Rogers and Jack were married in 2019 and remained together until his death in 2020.Death
Jack died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 76, from COVID-19.His wife Gabrielle Rogers wrote on Twitter:
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Kate & Leopold | John A. Roebling | |
| 2009 | Sherlock Holmes | Professor Moriarty | Voice |
| 2015 | ' | Caluan Ematt | |
| 2017 | ' | Caluan Ematt | |
| 2018 | ' | Moloch | Voice |
| 2020 | Rising Wolf | Doctor Thompson | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1957 | Whack-O! | School Boy | 10 episodes |
| 1959 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Boy | Episode: "Against the Stream" |
| 1966 | This Man Craig | Waiter | Episode: "A Wise Father" |
| 1968 | The Spanish Farm | Lt. Andrews | Episode: "Paris" |
| 1969 | Chronicle | Bosham | Episode: "Thomas Becket" |
| 1969 | Doctor in the House | Smoothie | Episode: "It's All Go..." |
| 1970 | The Black Tulip | Craeke | 1 episode |
| 1971 | Softly Softly: Task Force | Radley | Episode: "Company Business" |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2016 | ' | Caluan Ematt |