David Frederick Case

[2] He worked with a repertory company in northern England, and made about 13 TV appearances between 1959 and 1964, including as "Bob" on the BBC show Maigret (1962) for one episode, but his acting career was not overly successful.

[2] However Case would excel at British works, recording 13 novels by Anthony Trollope, 36 by P. G. Wodehouse and the entire "Forsyte" chronicles by John Galsworthy.

[2] He recorded works by luminaries of British literature such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham.

His non-fiction recordings included William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill The Last Lion, and Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.

His recordings of European literature included Cervantes' Don Quixote, Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Hugo's Les Miserables, and Tolstoy's War and Peace.

[2] Depending on the publisher, he recorded as David Case (Books on Tape), Frederick Davidson (Blackstone), Edward Raleigh, James Nelson, and Ian McKay.