Heron Carvic was a British actor

Actor

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 and writer

Writer

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 who provided the voice for Gandalf

Gandalf

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 in the BBC Radio

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 version of The Hobbit

The Hobbit

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, and played Caiphas the High Priest every time the play cycle The Man Born To Be King

The Man Born to be King

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was broadcast.

As a writer he created the characters and wrote the first five books featuring retired art teacher Miss Emily D. Seeton

Miss Seeton

Emily D. Seeton, aka Miss Seeton or MissEss is the fictional heroine of a series of British cosy mystery novels by Heron Carvic, Roy Peter Martin writing as Hampton Charles, and Sarah J. Mason writing as Hamilton Crane...

, a gentle parody of Agatha Christie

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's Miss Marple

Miss Marple

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.

Further books nominally in the Miss Seeton series were then written under two other pseudonyms. Roy Peter Martin

Roy Peter Martin

Roy Peter Martin is an English author who has written under the pseudonyms James Melville and Hampton Charles.Martin read philosophy at Birkbeck College and served in the Royal Air Force before a career in education....

 as "Hampton Charles" wrote three novels which were all released in 1990.