Career
The popularity of his role as Avon has tended to overshadow his extensive work in theatre and television. He also plays the character of Kaston Iago in the Kaldor City audios. He appeared in all but the first episode of Blake's 7. In the final episode of the series, in which all of the main characters (except Avon) are seen to be shot, Avon shot dead the character Klyn - played by Paul Darrow's wife, Janet Lees Price. Avon himself survived to the end credits - when gunshots are heard, perhaps signifying his death.
Darrow's other TV appearances include: Emergency Ward 10, The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1975 BBC series The Legend of Robin Hood, as Mr. Tallboy in the 1973 TV adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers' Murder Must Advertise, as Thomas Doughty in the TV film Drake's Venture, Dombey and Son, Maelstrom, Making News, Pie in the Sky, Hollyoaks and Little Britain. He spoke the voiceover for Biblical quotations in Richard Dawkins's The Root of All Evil?.
Proud of his work on Blake's 7, Darrow has acted as the show's most prolific spokesperson, both in the UK and during the late 80s, in the U.S., when the show was frequently broadcast on US public television. In the mid to late 1990s, he has also purchased the rights to Blake's 7 and attempted to produce a big-budget follow-up miniseries, Blake's 7: A Rebellion Reborn. According to Darrow, it would have begun 25 years after the ending of the original series and might have included an aged Avon passing the torch to a new generation.
Darrow records voiceovers and straplines for five UK Jack FM stations in Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Bristol, Swindon and Southampton. He also provides the voice of the character Grand Moff Tarkin in the computer game Star Wars: Empire at War. He also voiced the character of Zarok in a PlayStation game titled Medievil. Darrow appeared in Emmerdale from 13 July 2009, playing Eddy Fox, a friend of Alan Turner's; he knows Turner as "Tank".
Darrow also provided the voice of a main character in the PC game "Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising." The actress Glynis Barber, who played Soolin on Blake's 7 provided the voice for the main female character. The game was narrated by Tom Baker of Dr, Who fame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_Waters:_Antaeus_Rising
More recently, Dec 2011, Darrow has voiced the character of Overseer Tremel in the Bioware MMORPG release Star Wars: The Old Republic.
In 2012, Darrow returned to the role of "Kerr Avon" in Big Finish Productions' Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, a series of dramatic readings which take place during Series One before the death of Oleg Gan. Darrow stars as "Avon" in The Turning Test and The Magnificent Four by Simon Guerrier and Counterfeit by Peter Anghelides.
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