Nigel Murfitt
Singer / Actor / Santa / Compere
Biography
I've been singing most of my life, either in character or songs across a wide range of styles and periods.
I work primarily as The King at The Mediaeval Banquet in London.
The rest of the time I appear in films as a character actor or extra (sometimes featured).
I also appear on various TV shows doing just about anything from reading poetry (Mr & Mrs) to being dressed as a sumo wrestler (Good Morning). I'm also an excellent Father Christmas.
Most recently I appeared on BBC's All Together Now as one of the judging panel; The 100.
- Vocal range
- Tenor
- Born
- 24/01/1965
- Height
- 1.90m (6’3”)
- Hair
- Grey/Cropped
Full beard - Eyes
- Blue/Grey
- Birthplace
- Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Equity No.
- M00289933
- Agent
- Ugly
All Together Now
BBC and Remarkeable TV's new Saturday night program hits screens in January 2018.
I was chosen as one of 'The 100', the panel of judges. I also got a feature spot in the opening credits for which the BBC came to the Mediaeval Banquet to film me in my kingly regalia.
Credits
Main work
King Henry VIII
The London Medieval Banquet
Ongoing
Father Christmas
Various London Locations
Yearly
Skills
Numerous pantomime dames and characters
DSM and ASM experience
Experienced horse handler
Full clean driving licence
7.5 Tonne truck driver
TV & Advertising
All Together Now - BBC / Remarkeable TV
Judging panel
Zapped - Baby Cow
Fairy
Fairy: Make a Wish
Pirate
Beauty School Dropout - MTV
Ident character
Bring The Noise - Sky
Security Guard
All Star Mr & Mrs
Shakespearean poet
This Morning - ITV
Sumo wrestler
Odd One IN - Zeppetron
Strongman
Giff Gaff Mobile
Businessman
Film
Comedians Guide To Survival
Short Order Cook
King Arthur
Kings Counsel
Guardians of the Galaxy
London Has Fallen
The Huntsman
The Criminal
Transformers: The Last Knight
Patient Zero
Extra Work
Music Video
Theatre roles
Cambridge Arts Theatre
The Mikado
Mikado
Jack & the Beanstalk
Giant Blunderbore
Pirates of Penzance
Pirate King
Cambridge Corn Exchange
Carmen
Remandado
Trial by Jury
Defendant
Yeoman of the Guard
Leonard Merrill
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
Kiss Me Kate
Fred Graham/Petruchio
Oklahoma!
Judd Fry
Carousel
Enoch Snow
Angles Theatre Wisbech
Amadeus
Count Orsini Rosenberg
Directing
Annie Get Your Gun
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Rodgers and Hart, A Celebration!
Bury St Edmunds Corn Exchange
Hello Dolly!
Oklahoma!
Festival Players Cambridge
Cinderella
Aladdin
Sleeping Beauty
Dick Whittington
Ali Baba
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
Calendar Girls
Run For Your Wife
Ely Cambs.
She Stoops To Conquer
Open air
Twelfth Night
Open Air, Ely Cambs
Father Christmas
I've been Father Christmas for eight years now. I work at shopping centres, private parties, corporate events and nightclubs.
I'm great with kids and always research what toys are popular. I speak to the children as individuals and can make even nervous kids talk.
I have a real beard (and a fake one if you want it really long) and always take care to look authentic with costume, wig, make up and glasses.
I can be booked for the day or half day.
Review: The best Santa ever!
* * * * *
Wife and me took our two children to see Santa the the Painshill Grotto on Saturday 1st December. I have to say I’ve have never seen such attention to detail.
A real white beard, great costume, and not-the usual booming Santa more of a calming voiced Santa to soothe the most nervous of children.
His knowledge of the toys the children asked him to bring on Christmas Eve was unsurpassed. He certainly had done his homework on what children were asking for.
Well done Painshill! If there’s a Santa award at the end of the year this Santa deserves to win.
Trip advisor Dec 2017
