Monday, June 24, 2013

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

The Daleks patrol Trafalgar Square
First broadcast Nov 21 to Dec 26 1964
1. World's End (11.4m)
2. The Daleks (12.4m)
3. Day of Reckoning (11.9m)
4. The End of Tomorrow (11.9m)
5. The Waking Ally (11.4m)
6. Flashpoint (12.4m)
Average audience for serial: 11.90m
REGULAR CAST

William Hartnell (The Doctor) January 8th 1908 to April 23rd 1975 (heart failure after a series of strokes) For a full career biography for William Hartnell, click here.

William Russell (Ian Chesterton) November 19th 1924 to June 3rd 2024 For a full career biography for William Russell (aka Russell Enoch), click here.

Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) December 17th 1929 to February 18th 1993 (bone cancer) For a full career biography for Jacqueline Hill, click here.

Carole Ann Ford (Susan) Born June 16th 1940 For a full career biography for Carole Ann Ford, click here.

CREDITED GUEST CAST

Robert Aldous (Insurgent) Born 1934
Career highlights
Other appearances include She Stoops to Conquer (1956), Redgauntlet (1959), The Man in the Mirror (1966), Dad's Army (1969), Tom Grattan's War (1970), Warship (1973), 'Allo! 'Allo! (1986) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).
Facts
Until the age of 12, Robert suffered from infantile eczema and was often covered in bandages. In his latter years he lived in the London Charterhouse almshouses. You can read an in-depth interview conducted in 2010 with Robert about his theatrical career here.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Robert here.

Peter Badger (Roboman/ Phil Madison) March 3rd 1935 to April 7th 2020
Career highlights
Peter's CV also includes The Long Way Home (1960), Z Cars (1965), Dixon of Dock Green (1966), Public Eye (1969), Softly Softly: Task Force (1972), The Nation's Health (1983) and Great Performances: Degas and the Dance (2004).

Jean Conroy (Woman in the woods) September 29th 1934 to November 14th 1964 (accident in street)
Career highlights
Other work included A Chance to Live (1960), Boyd QC (1961), No Hiding Place (1962), The Rag Trade (1962), The Plane Makers (1963), Sergeant Cork (1964), The Children of the New Forest (1964) and The Unbearable Bassington (1965).
Facts
Jean's early death at the age of 30 means she is the first Doctor Who actor to die. Jean's episode The Waking Ally was recorded on Friday, October 16th, 1964 - a month later, she was dead, only a few weeks after her 30th birthday. The Waking Ally was broadcast posthumously on December 19th. Her final appearance in the Story Parade production of The Unbearable Bassington was broadcast in April 1965, so must have been pre-recorded months in advance (this seems unlikely for the time, but there you are...).

Ann Davies (Jenny) November 25th 1934 to April 26th 2022
Career highlights
Ann had previously appeared in Robert's Wife (1955), The Secret Kingdom (1960) and Harpers West One (1962), and went on to take roles in Mr Digby Darling (1971), Poldark (1976), Within These Walls (1975/78), The Nation's Health (1983), Widows 2 (1985), Ever Decreasing Circles (1987/89), Peter's Friends (1992), The Sculptress (1996), Grange Hill (1998-99), Doctors (2003), Run for Your Wife (2012) and Whitechapel (2013).
Facts
Ann was married to actor Richard Briers, who appeared in Paradise Towers (as well as spin-off Torchwood in 2008). Their daughter is actress Lucy Briers. Ann (and Richard) were good friends with Jacqueline Hill (companion Barbara Wright) and enrolled with the Open University in the 1980s together.

Michael Davis (Thomson)
Career highlights
Other appearances include Mandy (1952), The Music Box (1957), The Siege of Manchester (1965), Before the Party (1969), Germinal (1970) and Churchill's People (1975).

Nick Evans (Dalek operator & Slyther) Born August 2nd 1932
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalek in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964), The Power of the Daleks (1966, uncredited)
Played: Slyther in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Didius in The Romans (1965)
Career highlights
Nick's other work includes Educated Evans (1957), Love and Mr Lewisham (1959), The Forgotten Faces (1961), The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr (1964), R3 (1965), Alice in Wonderland (1966), The Devil in the Fog (1968), General Hospital (1972), The Adventurer (1973), Father Brown (1974) and All Creatures Great and Small (1988).

Peter Fraser (David Campbell)
Career highlights
Peter's other work included The Gentle Goddess (1959), Boyd QC (1960), Ghost Squad (1963), The Plane Makers (1963), Carry On Cleo (1964), Out of the Unknown (1965), The Sorcerers (1967), Tales from the Crypt (1972) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). He also had a regular role as Dick Seton in Deadline Midnight (1961).
Facts
In 1961, Peter married actress Pamela Greer, who appeared in The Daleks' Master Plan. They later divorced.

Michael Goldie (Craddock) February 26th 1932 to June 17th 2013
Doctor Who credits
Played: Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Career highlights
Having previously appeared in Love Story (1963) and The Avengers (1963), Michael later appeared in The Children of the New Forest (1964), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Smith (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), Secret Army (1978), Matilda's England (1979), Get Lost! (1981), Fighting Back (1986), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Wycliffe (1996). Michael also played Bob Statham, owner of the Weatherfield Recorder, in soap Coronation Street (1983 & 1987-88).
Facts
Michael started out as a lumberjack in Canada before becoming an actor. Coincidentally, Michael's character in The Dalek Invasion of Earth was played by his Wheel in Space co-star Kenneth Watson in the movie version, Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966).

David Graham (Dalek voice) July 11th 1925 to September 20th 2024 Click here for David Graham's entry on The Daleks

Peter Hawkins (Dalek voice) April 3rd 1924 to July 8th 2006 (pneumonia) Click here for Peter Hawkins' entry on The Daleks

Meriel Hobson (Woman in the woods) September 22nd 1905 to April 6th 1997
Career highlights
Meriel had previously appeared in Charlesworth (1959), Break in Festivities (1959), Dixon of Dock Green (1962) and Cluff (1964), and later appeared in soap Crossroads (1965).
Facts
Meriel, who was married to television writer Rodney Hobson, was a member of the Quince Players amateur theatrical society in Berkshire in the 1950s/60s and also directed productions for them, often pantomimes. The Players are still going today.

Martyn Huntley (Roboman)
Doctor Who credits
Played:
 First human in The Sensorites (1964)
Played: Roboman in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Warren Earp in The Gunfighters (1966)
Career highlights
Martyn subsequently appeared in R3 (1965), United! (1966-67), A Farewell to Arms (1966), The Spanish Farm (1968) and Z Cars (1969).

Robert Jewell (Dalek operator) January 20th 1920 to May 10th 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks

Alan Judd (Dortmun) October 12th 1909 to April 23rd 1988
Career highlights
Alan's career began in a 1946 adaptation of Saint Joan, followed by roles in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1950), 13 East Street (1952), The Golden Spur (1959), Crossroads (1964), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Scoop (1972), The Adventurer (1973), The Pallisers (1974), The Devil's Crown (1978) and Storyboard (1986). He also played the judge in 13 episodes of Jury (1983).
Facts
His life partner was the puppeteer Barry Smith, who lent his skills to Snakedance in 1983. Sadly, Alan died in 1988 aged 78, and Barry just 16 months later, aged only 59.

Bernard Kay (Carl Tyler) February 23rd 1928 to December 25th 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Saladin in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Caldwell in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
Bernard's first acting job was in ITV Television Playhouse's One of Us (1957), followed by Carry on Sergeant (1958), The Avengers (1962), Compact (1964), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Breaking Point (1966), Witchfinder General (1968), The Hunting Party (1971), Warship (1974), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Accident (1978-79), The Gentle Touch (1982), The Bill (1984), Remington Steele (1987), Bomber Harris (1989), Century Falls (1993), Jonathan Creek (1997), Foyle's War (2002), Harry Hill's TV Burp (2008), Casualty 1909 (2009) and Psychosis (2010).
Facts
Within months of Bernard being born, his mother tragically took her own life, while his father was admitted to an asylum when he was nine years old, leaving him to be brought up by his grandparents. His father later died when he was 12. Bernard's career began as a reporter on the Manchester Guardian and Bolton Evening News in the 1940s. In 2006, he won the creative non-fiction prize of the New Writing Ventures Awards for his account of life growing up in 1930s/40s Bolton. Between 1963-77 (her death), Bernard was married to actress Patricia Haines (first wife of Michael Caine).
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Bernard here.

Kevin Manser (Dalek operator) February 16th 1929 to December 21st 2001 (bowel cancer) Click here for Kevin Manser's entry on The Daleks

Richard McNeff (Baker) February 27th 1921 to January 7th 2006
Career highlights
Debuted in Yearaway (1956), followed by roles in Suspended Alibi (1957), Our House (1961), The Saint (1963), Redcap (1966), Up Pompeii (1969), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973), Warship (1977), Born and Bred (1980), Chance in a Million (1984) and The Wilsons (2000). In 1971, Richard penned a Thirty-Minute Theatre for the BBC called The Room They Left, starring Leslie Dwyer and Donald Gee.
Facts
Richard's brother Samuel became a major in the Intelligence and fought with Tito and the partisans in Yugoslavia. Richard's son (who is also called Richard and is an author) has dedicated a page of his website to his father here.

Peter Murphy (Dalek operator) August 16th 1928 to May 5th 1991 Click here for Peter Murphy's entry on The Daleks

Patrick O'Connell (Ashton) January 29th 1934 to August 10th 2017 (lung cancer and emphysema)
Career highlights
Debuted in Lena, Oh My Lena (1960), then The Big Spender (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Cromwell (1970), Elizabeth R (1971), The Protectors (1972), Mind Your Language (1978), We'll Meet Again (1982), The Shooting Party (1985), She-Wolf of London (1990), Inspector Morse (1993) and As Time Goes By (1996). He had regular roles as Detective Inspector Gamble in Fraud Squad (1969-70) and Edward Hammond in The Brothers (1973-77).
Facts
Dublin-born Patrick was given away at birth, and at the age of three taken in and reared by Birmingham woman Dorothy Thomas. Sadly, two years later his errant father took him back and placed him in a Catholic orphanage in Dublin, where he lived for four years until Dorothy was able to rescue him and continue a stabler upbringing. He later became an artist, known for his paintings, linocuts and etchings. One of his children is Kate O'Connell, who acted in the 1980s and 90s until becoming a counsellor. In later years Patrick suffered with dementia.

Graham Rigby (Larry Madison) January 5th 1927 to April 5th 2021
Career highlights
Other work includes Knight Errant Limited (1960), The Avengers (1961), Hobson's Choice (1962), Swizzlewick (1964), Cluff (1965), Champion House (1967), The Onedin Line (1972), The Befrienders (1972), The Nearly Man (1975), A Traveller in Time (1978), Emmerdale Farm (1981), All Creatures Great and Small (1985-89), First Among Equals (1986), Cluedo (1990), Last of the Summer Wine (1991), Stay Lucky (1993), Out of the Blue (1995) and Like Father (2001). He also had several roles in Coronation Street between 1961-95, and played Charlie Forward in soap Crossroads on and off between 1965-79.

Nicholas Smith (Wells) March 5th 1934 to December 6th 2015 (head injury following a fall)
Career highlights
Debuted uncredited in Pathfinders to Mars (1960), followed by roles in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), The Frost Report (1966), Danger Island (1967), The Saint (1968), Ace of Wands (1971), Z Cars (1972-75, as PC Yates), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Worzel Gummidge (1979), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Last of the Summer Wine (2008), M.I High (2010) and Charlie's Angels (2011). Nicholas will be most recognised as jug-eared Mr Rumbold in the sitcoms Are You Being Served? (1972-85) and Grace and Favour (1992-93).
Facts
Nicholas, whose first speaking screen role was Doctor Who, is the father of actress Catherine Russell.

Gerald Taylor (Dalek operator) October 11th 1940 to December 4th 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks

UNCREDITED GUEST CAST

Nigel Bernard (Freedom fighter) Nigel also appeared uncredited in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Councilman) and The Faceless Ones (Passenger).
Jo Calvert (Slave in mine)
Susanne Charise (Freedom fighter)
Roy Curtis (Freedom fighter) It's possible Roy and Helene Curtis (an uncredited extra in The Reign of Terror) were related. Roy also appeared uncredited in The Reign of Terror (Citizen), The Gunfighters (Cowboy) and The Faceless Ones (Technician).
George Dare (Slave in mine) Dec 15 1884 to May 28 1966. 
Adrian Drotsky (Roboman) An Adrian Drotsky married a Jane Bowman in 1962, and the pair had a child, also called Adrian, in 1966. Adrian's other uncredited Doctor Who work includes The Keys of Marinus (Citizen of Millennius) and The Reign of Terror (French citizen & Peasant).
Stenson Falcke (Slave in mine) Mar 18 1909 to Dec 4 1993. Stenson Coultas Falcke served with the RAF in the 1920s before becoming a musician on Cunard cruise liners. He also appeared uncredited in Doctor Who and the Silurians (London extra).
Daphne Green (Slave in mine) Sep 12 1934 to 2004. Daphne's most memorable acting role was playing Liz Ruskin in more than 80 episodes of soap Emmerdale between 1973-75. Her other Doctor Who work included an uncredited role in The Myth Makers (Trojan woman in square).
Margot Hanson (Slave in mine)
Joe Hardesty (Freedom fighter)
Peter Holmes (Freedom fighter) Dec 7 1936 to Mar 16 2010 (cancer). Peter was a prolific bit part player, also appearing uncredited in Galaxy 4 (Rill), The Daleks' Master Plan (Reveller), Doctor Who and the Silurians (Technician), The Claws of Axos (Lab technician and Axon creature). In the 1960s he became the second husband of actor Barbara (Black Orchid) Murray, after which he became a schoolteacher. The two later divorced.
Peter Honeywell (Freedom fighter)
Jonas Kurchi (Slave in mine) His other uncredited Doctor Who work was The Gunfighters (Lynch mob).
Bill McAllister (Slave in mine)
Roma Milne (Freedom fighter) 1918 to Mar 16 2010
Peter Morton (Slave in mine)
Bill Moss (Roboman)
Patricia Phipps (Freedom fighter)
Tony Poole (Freedom fighter) Tony also appeared uncredited in The Romans (Rabble).
Molly Prescott (Freedom fighter)
Rex Rashley (Slave in mine) Oct 3 1894 to Feb 3 1972. Prolific extra who appeared in drama as well as variety (including with Ken Dodd and Morecambe and Wise). Further uncredited Doctor Who work includes Doctor Who and the Silurians (London extra) and The Daemons (Villager).
Michael Reed (Freedom fighter)
John Sackville West (Slave in mine) It feels like John may have been related to novelist Vita Sackville-West, but there's no evidence for sure. He also appeared uncredited in The Reign of Terror (Revolutionary soldier).
Rosina Stewart (Freedom fighter) Rosina's other uncredited Doctor Who work includes The Keys of Marinus (Citizen of Millennius), The Enemy of the World (Shelterer) and Doctor Who and the Silurians (London extra).
Don Symonds (Slave in mine)
Fred Taylor (Slave in mine) Fred also appeared uncredited in The Romans (Man in market) and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Parisian).
John Timberlake (Slave in mine) Dec 5 1904 to Nov 8 1993. John was a prolific background player, having appeared in films such as The Million Pound Note, Doctor at Sea, The Mouse That Roared and, one of his last roles, An American Werewolf in London (as a patron of The Slaughtered Lamb). His other uncredited Doctor Who work includes The Enemy of the World (Shelterer) and Genesis of the Daleks (Kaled scientist). He died at actors' retirement home Denville Hall.
Graham Tonbridge (Slave in mine) May 13 1906 to Nov 30 1986. Prolific bit part player Graham started out as a dancer (performing in 1937's Over She Goes), appearing in everything from Doctor at Large and Dr No to Lawrence of Arabia and Tales from the Crypt. He also appeared uncredited in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Councilman), The War Machines (Worker) and The Faceless Ones (Passenger from Madrid).
Reg Tyler (Roboman)
Alan Wakeling (Slave in mine) Alan's further uncredited Doctor Who work includes The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Parisian) and The War Machines (Worker).
Tony Walsh (Slave in mine)
Leslie Wilkinson (Slave in mine) Feb 1 1934 to Dec 27 1995. Leslie's other uncredited Doctor Who work includes The Keys of Marinus (Citizen of Millennius) and The Romans (Galley slave).
Jan Willis (Slave in mine)
Leonard Woodrow (Freedom fighter)

CREW

Terry Nation (writer) August 6th 1930 to March 9th 1997 (emphysema) Click here for Terry Nation's entry on The Daleks

Richard Martin (director) Born January 3rd 1935 Click here for Richard Martin's entry on The Daleks

Verity Lambert (producer) November 27th 1935 to November 22nd 2007 (cancer) Click here for Verity Lambert's entry on An Unearthly Child

Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer) February 28th 1912 to May 20th 1966 Click here for Mervyn Pinfield's entry on An Unearthly Child

David Whitaker (story editor) April 18th 1928 to February 4th 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child

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