Jeremy Crutchley has had a long career in film spanning from 1982’s Safari 3000 alongside David Carradine, A Good Man in Africa with Sean Connery to more recent performances in Skin (2008) with Sam Neill and Alice Krige and Spud (2010) with John Cleese.
Jeremy also has an impressive television resumé having worked on productions such as the BAFTA nominated BBC mini series Rhodes and the television adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
His theatre repertoire is just as long, having tackled productions such as Equus, Madame Butterfly and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He has toured internationally with productions of Shadow of Doubt, Passing Places and The Lady in the Van.
Known for a vast range of character voices and delivery, his international experience in film and theatre over 30 years has helped Jeremy become one of the most in-demand voice artists, requested by a range of clients including BMW, Kelloggs, Vodafone, Castrol, Panasonic, Colgate-Palmolive, SAA, Polaroid, MG, Rover, Emirates, Old Mutual, Shell, Standard Bank, Chrysler, Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Goodyear and many others.
Since 1981, his work has helped win many advertising awards in South Africa, the US and the UK (AAA Apex; Loeries; London Awards).
He has contributed music and lyrics for movie soundtracks in South Africa’s DV8 Movie project. He composed, played and recorded his own musical version of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky (broadcast on SABC in 1989).
As a lover of the acoustic and electric guitar, he created, staged and performed his own rock music and lyrics for such shows as Bloodbreath Anaesthetic (1978), Sloper (1983), and A Nightmare On Pretoria Street (1991). He composed music and sound effects, as well as co-writing lyrics, for the cult classic Brothers Of The Head by Brian Aldiss in 1984.
In 1983 he co-founded Home Recording Studios, servicing the industry for 5 years and in the process earning a Hollywood IBA. Award in 1994 for World’s Best Use of Sound for The Talking Engine. On the Prophets of The City album recorded here, Jeremy played electric 6 and 12 string guitars on their hit version of the popular South African song Jabulani.
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