Actor and dialect coach Andrew Jack has passed away after contracting COVID-19. He was 76.
A representative for the actor, Jill McCullough, confirmed that he passed in a hospital close to London. Jack’s wife Gabrielle, who he was “madly in love with”, was unable to be there with him “stuck in quarantine in Australia, having just flown in from New Zealand last week,” McCullough confirmed.
“It breaks my heart to let you know we lost a man today. Andrew Jack was diagnosed with Coronavirus when admitted to hospital less than 48 hours ago in suburban London,” Gabrielle shared in an Instagram tribute.
“He died today. He was in no pain, and he slipped away peacefully knowing that his children, stepchildren, grandchildren, brother, friends, and I were all ‘with’ him. Take care out there, lovers x”
Jack’s dialect work permeates through some of the most beloved films in Hollywood. As a dialect coach, he undertook the task of bringing the ‘Common Tongue’ as well as fictional languages like Sindarin and Quenya to life in the Peter Jackson trilogy.
Jack taught Robert Downey Jr. to speak like Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin — which earned the actor an Oscar nomination. He also coached Pierce Brosnan in three of his four James Bond movies – GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day.
His latest project was the Robert Pattinson-led Batman film — which shut down production in March due to COVID-19. Jack had previously worked with Christian Bale as Batman in Batman Begins.
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Jack had appeared as an actor in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi as General Ematt, as well as Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens.
