Andrew Jack

Andrew Jack (January 28, 1944 – March 31, 2020) was an dialect coach who worked on more than 80 films since the 1980s. He worked on the film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015), where he provided dialogue and accent coaching for actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, as well as several supporting actors with alien languages. He also had a brief acting role in the film as Caluan Ematt. He has worked with such actors as Robert Downey Jr. in the film Chaplin (1992), and Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye (1995) and other James Bond films. Jack also created the Middle-earth accents for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and taught them to the cast, and designed and taught the accents for the Greeks and Trojans for the film Troy (2004). On the the 31st of March 2020, Andrew Jack passed away from COVID-19.

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