Chris Tulloch

Chris Tulloch is a British actor, animator, musician, singer-songwriter and model-maker. During his work on TUGS, he was mainly the art director whilst also working in the roles as director, writer and voice actor for the series.

He was also one of the creators of "Dream Street" for CITV.

His most notable role in TUGS was providing the voice role of Zorran.

About[]

Chris Tulloch was hired to work on TUGS as the art director for the series, but later on was chosen as an additional director to assist David Mitton with filming of the episodes. As Art Director, he helped design the tugboat fleets such as the Star Tugs and Z-Stacks. As a writer, he wrote and directed two episodes, Trapped and High Winds, and only directed two other episodes, Quarantine and Warrior. At Shepperton Studios, Tulloch would help animate the models when they were required for filming on set. Tulloch also built Ten Cents.

In addition to his crew roles, Tulloch was most notably part of the voice cast for TUGS. He was the voice of Zorran and the Shrimpers.

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Tulloch pursued other film and television projects for roles in acting, art directing and special effects. He later started his own music project, Mandolin Jack. He was interviewed in 2022 for the TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective documentary.

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Trivia[]

Chris Tulloch and Patrick Allen both played roles in the 1995 television movie: Bullet to Beijing. He was also an art director for this film.
He also served as a special effects technician for Saving Private Ryan, which featured a Thomas & Friends actor: Glenn Wrage.
Chris Tulloch's favourite model is Billy Shoepack, as he invented the character, roughly sketched him out & Jeremy King did the rest.
Tulloch had voiced many rough drafts for the episodes, while working alongside film editor Phil Sanderson. All the “accents” for the tug characters came from those drafts … e.g. OJ being Welsh, Big Mac - Scottish, Top Hat - “posh", Sunshine - Geordie etc. The voice he provided for Zorran in the drafts was praised so much that Robert D. Cardona asked him to provide the voice for Zorran.