Meat-Free Burger Advertisment

[AR49]

Does anyone know who portrays the white-haired vampire in this Birds Eye advert? Looks like Roy Hudd to me. The female vampire also looks familiar. Any ideas?

[Mamyalynne]

Ad for reference

[Buenchico]

I can't tell you who the actors are but I can confidently say that Roy Hudd isn't playing one of the vampires, simply because he sounds nothing like RH when he's speaking. See here:

[Buenchico]

Further, the actor you refer to seems to be a lot younger than Roy Hudd (who's now 83).

RH lives up the road from me. Here's a picture I took of him 3 years ago, when he was awarding the prizes at a local event:
https://ukcatlover.rajce.idnes.cz/Coddenham_Open_Gardens#P6121341.jpg
(Click on the image a couple of times to see two more pics of him).
He's still very alert and spritely but, I think, clearly a lot older than the actor in the Birds Eye ad.

[Baldric]

Meat Free burger, you cannot be serious?

[douglas9401]

Entering into evidence the spicy beanburger and McDonalds vegetable deluxe for starters.

[Buenchico]

McDonald's 'Vegetable Deluxe' isn't a burger though, Douglas:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-mcdonalds-doesnt-serve-vegetarian-vegan-burger-2019-4?r=US&;IR=T

[douglas9401]

Business Insider wants either my ad blocker turned off or cash to view so I'll just have to take your word for it, Chris.

I'd bet 50p though that if you were to roll up to the drive thru and ask for a veggie burger meal you woudn't leave empty handed.

Having said all that, I do agree with Baldric but it's more fun being contrary.
If anti-meatists want their own foods they should at least have the decency to come up with names for it.

[ummmm]

Doesn't vegetable deluxe cover that, Douglas?

[douglas9401]

I suppose, even though it may be stretching 'deluxe' to breaking point.

[ummmm]

Never tried one. I only used to eat fillet 'o' fish when I went there. I don't mind a proper burger now though.

[ChumpMonkey]

I thought the female vampire was the comedian, Kerry Godliman? They sound the same.

[Imaginationineed]

Not sure about the white haired one but I am sure the one at the end is the actor who plays the dwarf, Ori in The Hobbit. I think the actor is called Adam Brown according to IMDB

[Chinajan]

Roy Hudd died in March 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51906543