Andrew Jack
Andrew Jack (dialect coach)
Born Name: Andrew Hutchinson
Date of Birth: 28 January 1944
Place of Birth: London, England
Died: 31 March 2020
Occupation: Dialect coach
Nationality: British
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Spouse: Felicity Hutchinson (m. 1974-1987), Paula Jack (m. 2000-2018), Gabrielle Rogers (m. 2019-2020)
Children: Rupert Hutchinson, Katherine Morgan
Parents: Stephen Jack, Julia Hutchinson
Website: andrewjack.com
Andrew Jack (born Andrew Hutchinson; 28 January 1944 – 31 March 2020) was a British dialect coach from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982.
Early life
His father Stephen Jack was an actor, and his mother Julia (nee Hutchinson) was a horticulturist.
Career
He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr. (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Michael Hoffman's Restoration and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojans in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. He taught Evan Davis to speak with a Nottinghamshire twang. He was known for helping non-British actors to be more intelligible to the audience.
Jack can also be seen in the Star Wars film series portraying Resistance Major (later promoted to General) Caluan Ematt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He also voiced the character of Moloch in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The final film he was working on at the time of his death was The Batman.
Personal life
Jack's widow Gabrielle Rogers is also a voice, accent and dialect coach who first started working in the film, television and theatre industries as an actor in the 1980s. She also had trained at the National Theatre, and then, after she graduated from the University of Sydney, ACA and NIDA, Gabrielle moved on to become Australia’s most sought after voice and dialect teacher. Gabrielle Rogers and Andrew Jack were married until his death from Coronavirus disease 2019 on 31 March 2020.
Death
On 31 March 2020, it was announced that Andrew Jack had died from COVID-19. His wife Gabrielle Rogers wrote on Twitter "We lost a man today. Andrew Jack was diagnosed with coronavirus two days ago. He was in no pain, and he slipped away peacefully knowing that his family were all 'with' him".
