Wright's work on screen began with ITV Entertainment's
The Munch Bunch. After that, he was a leading character in
You and Me, a
BBC Schools series, in which he played Dibs from 1983 until 1992. His first feature film was
Dragonslayer (1981), and in the mid-1980s he worked as a puppeteer on
Spitting Image. and created and voiced the
Psammead for BBC Television in
Five Children and It (1991), returning to the role in
The Return of the Psammead (1993) and
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997), for which he also created the puppet of the Phoenix, a character which was voiced by
David Suchet. In the 1990s he also worked on
Wizadora,
Mortimer and Arabel,
Hotch Potch House, ''
Jay's World, Gophers!, and The Spooks of Bottle Bay, playing Sam the Seagull in Beachcomber Bay and created the March Hare for the star-studded Alice in Wonderland'' (1999). Wright played the Head in ITV's
Art Attack (1990–2007), was Colin the bat and Lumpy in
Grotbags (1991–1993), was both a writer and a performer for
Bug Alert (1996–2000) and played Sweep in two series of the ITV children's show
Sooty. He has also narrated two television series,
B & B the Best for the BBC and
Kitchen Showdown with Rosemary Shrager for ITV, and does voice-over work for commercials. Outside show business, Wright teaches public speaking and communication skills. He was an elocution teacher for
American Princess (2005) and
Australian Princess (2006) and was hired to teach
Paul O'Grady to “speak proper” on
The Generation Game. ==Notes==