
Ray Brooks
Known for: Acting
Born: April 20, 1939
Died: August 9, 2025
Ray Brooks was a British actor famous for his role as the narrator in the classic children's cartoon series Mr Benn, for the films The Knack...And How To Get It, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150AD and Cathy Come Home, and for the TV series Big Deal and Growing Pains. In later years he played Joe Macer, the husband and murderer of Albert Square stalwart Pauline Fowler, in the BBC's long running soap opera EastEnders and has wrote several books, including his autobiography. He died at the age of 86…
Known for

Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!
1982

A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
1978
The World of Eddie Weary
1990

The Flesh and Blood Show
1972

The Knack... and How to Get It
1965

Office Romances
1983

The Cherry Orchard
1971

Tiffany Jones
1973

Some People
1962

Captured
1959

Cathy Come Home
1966

Office Party
1971

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
1966

House of Whipcord
1974

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1973

Assassin
1973

On Location: The Carry Ons
2001

The Last Grenade
1970

Baffled!
1973

Play It Cool
1962

A Thinking Man as Hero
1973

H.M.S. Defiant
1962

Carry On Abroad
1972

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972

EastEnders
1985

Gideon's Way
1965

The Avengers
1961

Rumpole of the Bailey
1975

Doomwatch
1970

Big Deal
1984

The Expert
1968

King Rollo
Running Wild
1987

Growing Pains
1992

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Open Air
1986

The Paul Daniels Magic Show
1979

Mr. Benn
1971

The Pickwick Papers
1985

Wogan
1982

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969

Dalgliesh
1983

The Wednesday Play
1964

Play for Today
1970

Death of an Expert Witness
1983

BBC Play of the Month
1965
Taxi!
1963
Taxi!
1963
Black and Blue
1973

Theatre 625
1964

Armchair Theatre
1956

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969

Mickey Dunne
1967

It's a Woman's World
1964
Oranges and Lemons
1973
Trapped
1967

Boy Meets Girl
1967
Late Night Theatre
1972

That's Carry On!
1977