Friday 30 March 2007

Celebrity PIFs

We've all seen celebrities jumping on the Comic Relief bandwagon or wearing charity bracelets in public, but did you know that many of them have also appeared in PIFs? Here are just a few.

Michael Aspel - Children and matches
Nick Atkinson, Natasha Bedingfield, Keisha Buchanan, Rio Ferdinand, Audley Harrison, Kelly Holmes, Alex Kapranos, Vernon Kaye, Sharon Osbourne, Jake Shears and Matt Willis - School bullying
Rowan Atkinson - Blood donation
Tom Baker - SPLINK
Tony Bastable - Tyre pressure
Ross Boatman - Heroin abuse
Richard Branson - Blood donation
Jim Broadbent - Construction site hazards
Frank Bruno - Fireworks
Clare Buckfield - Clothing fires
Barry Bucknell - Energy efficiency
Joe Bugner - Child road safety
Cannon and Ball - Liquid medicine measures
Todd Carty - SPLINK
Cast of Dad's Army - Pedestrian crossings
Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy - Appeared in archive footage for a PIF about safe DIY
Robbie Coltrane - Ear protection at work
Henry Cooper - Think Bike
Anne Diamond - Cot death
Ken Dodd - Pedestrian crossings
Michele Dotrice - Hard shoulders
Noel Edmonds - Blood donation
Keith Floyd - Chip pan fires
Ryan Giggs - Child road safety
David Ginola - Drug smuggling
Leslie Grantham - Drink driving
Les Gray (from Mud) - Child road safety
Derek Griffiths - SPLINK; cycle theft
Hale and Pace - Fireworks
Jenny Hanley - Burning liquids
Gerald Harper - Elderly people and falls
Rolf Harris - Teaching children to swim
Jimmy Hill - Think Bike
Thora Hird - Minimum income guarantee; elderly people and falls; fire safety
Nerys Hughes - Minimum income guarantee
Glenda Jackson and Ernie Wise - Blood donation
Gorden Kaye - Fireworks
Kevin Keegan - Child road safety
Helen Lederer - Ladder safety
Howard Lew Lewis - Garden safety
Gary Lineker - Blood donation; drug smuggling
Joanna Lumley - Charity fraud
Derek Martin - Pedestrian crossings; tool safety
Pauline McLynn (in her Father Ted role) - Tax self - assessment
Ian Mercer - Farming hazards
Heather Mills - Blood donation
Alan Minter - Property marking
Neil Morrissey - Fireworks
Ted Moult - Waste food
Mo Mowlam - Blood donation
Roy North (with Basil Brush) - Air beds
Jon Pertwee - SPLINK
Duncan Preston - "Stranger danger"
Dave Prowse - Green Cross Code Man
Bill Roache - Blood donation
Linda Robson - Blood donation
Patsy Rowlands - Fire doors
Peter Sallis - Minimum income guarantee
Jimmy Savile - Seat belts; straw burning
Delia Smith - Energy efficiency
The Spinners - Blood donation
Alvin Stardust - Child road safety
Ed Stewart - "Stranger danger"
John Surtees - Motorbike safety
Gillian Taylforth - Fireworks; drink driving; motorbike safety
Shaw Taylor - Seat belts; property coding; 999
Denise Van Outen - Drink driving
Lisa Walker - Travel insurance
Dennis Waterman and George Cole (in their Minder roles) - Premium bonds
Denise Welch - Blood donation

This doesn't include many of the famous faces who have donated voiceovers for PIFs, including Harry Secombe, Patrick Allen, John Hurt and Peter Hawkins.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you sure Tom did SPLINK? I know Jon did, I don't remember seeing one with Tom. Although I would love to.

One thing Tom did do was Keep Australia Beautiful.

Reginald Molehusband said...

The Film Images catalogue says he did:

MOT 127 Green Cross Code Splink Learn It Tom Baker
COM 309 Green Cross Code Tony Gets It Right animation
COM 310 Green Cross Code Julie Saves a Life animation
COM 309 Ian's Narrow Escape animation

And now I want to see the Keep Australia Beautiful one ...