The Crusade

Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) comforts
 Maimuna (Sandra Hampton)

First broadcast Mar 27 to Apr 17 1965

1. The Lion (10.5m)

2. The Knight of Jaffa (8.5m)

3. The Wheel of Fortune (9.0m)

4. The Warlords (9.5m)

Average audience for serial: 9.38m

• A pictorial guide to the guest cast can be seen at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story on Time Space Visualiser here!

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.

Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Born June 29th 1943 For a full career biography of Maureen O'Brien, click here.

CREDITED GUEST CAST

David Anderson (Reynier de Marun)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Caravan warrior in Marco Polo (1964, uncredited)
Played: Palace guard in Marco Polo (1964, uncredited)
Played: Aztec captain in The Aztecs (1964)
Fight arranger: The Aztecs (1964), The Time Meddler (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Soldier in The Reign of Terror (1964, uncredited)
Played: Reynier de Marun in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Sven in The Time Meddler (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)

Facts

David used to run his own martial arts school in Shepherd's Bush, London.

Roger Avon (Saphadin) November 23rd 1914 to December 21st 1998
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saphadin in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Wells in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
Career highlights
Roger started his career in Fun at St Fanny's (1956), followed by roles in Variety Incorporated (1957), The Benny Hill Show (1958/65), Hancock's Half Hour (1959), Citizen James (1961), The Likely Lads (1965), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Good Old Days (1967), On the Buses (1970), The First Train Now Arriving... (1975), The Likely Lads (1976), When the Boats Comes In (1976-81), The Baker Street Boys (1983), Black Adder the Third (1987), Grace and Favour (1993), Our Friends in the North (1996) and Grafters (1998).

Facts

In 1984 Roger had a triple heart bypass, which took him two years to recover from but which also gave him and his career a new lease of life. He was working right up until the day he died, ironically playing a man dying in hospital in Grafters. His son Crispin worked as an assistant floor manager on BBC comedies such as The Brittas Empire and Alexei Sayle's Stuff.

Gabor Baraker (Luigi Ferrigo) June 10th 1926 to April 30th 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: Wang-Lo in Marco Polo (1964)
Played: Luigi Ferrigo in The Crusade (1965)
Career highlights
After Doctor Who, Hungarian Gabor appeared in Compact (1964), Redcap (1965), Thunderball (1965), George and the Dragon (1966), Mickey Dunne (1967), Inspector Clouseau (1968), The Champions (1968), The Saint (1969) and From a Bird's Eye View (1970).

Facts

Gabor's family were persecuted as Jews during the Second World War, resulting in his family's shops being confiscated and his parents and sister sent to a concentration camp. Gabor himself was sent to a Nazi labour camp, helping to construct railroads. After training as an actor, Gabor emigrated to Australia, but after buying a bicycle, he was knocked off and spent two months in hospital, where the nurses taught him to speak English. Gabor emigrated to the UK in 1962. He passed away in Algeria.

John Bay (Earl of Leicester) November 30th 1928 to November 7th 1982 (brain cancer)
Career highlights
American-born John's CV began with O.S.S (1958), then Richard the Lionheart (1962), The Hanged Man (1975), Two's Company (1976) and The Professionals (1978).
Facts
At the time of his death John was married to actress Elaine Stritch (see them acting opposite one another in a 1975 episode of Two's Company). For the length of their nine-year marriage they lived at the Savoy Hotel, London. In 1933, John's family established Bay's English Muffins in Chicago, well-known in the USA, and the muffins first used by McDonald's for their original Egg McMuffin in 1972.

David Brewster (Turkish bandit)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mongol bandit in Marco Polo (1964, uncredited)

Played: Man in market in The Romans (1965, uncredited)
Played: Turkish bandit in The Crusade (1965)

Played: Rill in Galaxy 4 (1965, uncredited)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Career highlights
David also made appearances in A for Andromeda (1961), The Big Pull (1962), The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962), Lance at Large (1964) and Moving On (1965).

Tony Caunter (Thatcher) September 22nd 1937 to October 13th 2025
Doctor Who credits
Played: Thatcher in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Morgan in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Jackson in Enlightenment (1983)
Career highlights
Tony's long career stems back to 24-Hour Call (1963), then The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Likely Lads (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Queen Street Gang (1968), Parkin's Patch (1969), Ace of Wands (1970), War and Peace (1973), Marked Personal (1974), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Blake's 7 (1978), Angels (1979), Home to Roost (1985), London's Burning (1988), Boon (1990), Westbeach (1993), May to December (1994), Down to Earth (2004) and Doctors (2004/08). Tony will be best remembered as Roy Evans in the soap EastEnders (1994-2003), but he also had regular roles in Queenie's Castle (1970-72) as Jack, All Our Saturdays (1973) as Ken Hicks, Beryl's Lot (1973-77) as Trevor Tonks, Juliet Bravo (1980-82) as Jim Logan, Big Deal (1984) as Henry Diamond, and The Chief (1990-94) as Arthur Quine.

Facts

Tony passed away just eight days after his wife of 63 years, Frances.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Tony here.

Anthony Colby (Saracen warrior) 1937 to October 4th 2018
Career highlights
Anthony's other work includes No Hiding Place (1961/62), Teletale (1964), Redcap (1965), King of the River (1966), Sat'day While Sunday (1967) and Special Branch (1969).

Facts

Anthony was married to fellow actor Jill Marlowe.

Billy Cornelius (Man-at-arms) Born August 18th 1934
Doctor Who credits
Stunts: Stunt double for Derek Newark in An Unearthly Child (1963, uncredited)

Stunts: Stunt double for William Russell in The Aztecs (1964, uncredited)

Played: Man-at-arms in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Morok guard in The Space Museum (1966)
Career highlights
Prolific stuntman Billy debuted in Very Important Person (1961), followed by roles in No Hiding Place (1963), Dave's Kingdom (1964), Redcap (1965), The Avengers (1965/68), The Ronnie Barker Playhouse (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), Sam and the River (1975), Law and Order (1978), The Long Good Friday (1980) and The Nightmare Man (1981). Carry On fans will also know Billy from his numerous appearances in the franchise between 1964-75, most memorably as hairy Oddbod Junior in Carry On Screaming! (1966).

Facts

Billy's older brother was fellow stuntman Joe Cornelius. After his stunt career ended, Billy became a pub landlord.

John Flint (William des Preaux) August 1st 1929 to September 9th 1987
Doctor Who credits
Played: William des Preaux in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Captain Urquhart in Time-Flight (1982)
Career highlights
John's debut came in Jo's Boys (1959), then A House Called Bell Tower (1960), Emergency Ward 10 (1961), Boyd QC (1964), The Flying Swan (1965), Redcap (1966), Mrs Thursday (1967), Spyder's Web (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1973), Doctor on the Go (1977), The Rag Trade (1977), The Famous Five (1978), Angels (1980), Bognor (1981), Fame is the Spur (1982), King John (1984), Big Deal (1986) and The Fools on the Hill (1986).

Julian Glover (Richard the Lionheart) Born March 27th 1935
Doctor Who credits
Played: Richard the Lionheart in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Count Scarlioni/ Scaroth in City of Death (1979)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Julian made his screen debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), followed by roles in An Age of Kings (1960), The Alphabet Murders (1965), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Champions (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Spy Trap (1972), Churchill's People (1975), Couples (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981), By the Sword Divided (1983), Remington Steele (1985), Cry Freedom (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), King Ralph (1991), The Chief (1995), Holby City (2000), Troy (2004), Scoop (2006), Merlin (2012), Spies of Warsaw (2013), Atlantis (2013), We Still Steal the Old Way (2016), Black Earth Rising (2018), The Crown (2019), Inside No 9 (2021), Tar (2022), Willow (2023), Surface (2025) and Borley Rectory: The Awakening (2025). He also played Grand Maester Pycelle in Game of Thrones (2011-16).
Awards
1993: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Henry IV Parts 1 & 2)
2013: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama
Facts
Julian has a number of interesting family connections. His mother was Honor Wyatt, a BBC journalist and writer who was related to politician Woodrow Wyatt; his father was writer Gordon Glover, who had an affair with novelist Barbara Pym after he and Honor separated (Pym was Honor's friend!); Julian's first wife was actor Eileen Atkins between 1957-66; his second wife is actor Isla Blair (who appeared in The King's Demons); Julian and Isla's son is actor Jamie Glover, who played William Russell in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013), and who is married to actor Sasha Behar (who appeared in The Fires of Pompeii); his half-brother is musician Robert Wyatt, founder of the band Soft Machine.

Julian is believed to be the only actor to appear in the Star Wars, James Bond and Indiana Jones franchises. Julian was the first person to suggest Pierce Brosnan for the role of Bond while he was filming For Your Eyes Only in 1981.

Sandra Hampton (Maimuna)
Career highlights
Other work includes Up a Gum Tree (1962), The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Sherlock Holmes (1965), Three Hats for Lisa (1966) and The Cuckoo Patrol (1967). She was also a dancer and appeared in this capacity on the BBC's Jimmy Logan Show (1959-60).

Bernard Kay (Saladin) 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.

Chris Konyils (Saracen warrior)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965)
Played: African ISC officer in The Tenth Planet (1966, uncredited)
Played: Crewmember in The Wheel in Space (1968, uncredited)
Career highlights
Chris' other screen work includes The Bed-Sitting Room (1969) and Carry On Up the Jungle (1970).

Robert Lankesheer (Chamberlain) April 28th 1914 to December 29th 1993 (emphysema)
Career highlights
Robert's earliest credit was in The Malory Secret (1951), followed by Emil and the Detectives (1952), Starr and Company (1958), Tales from Dickens (1960), Deadline Midnight (1961), Out of This World (1962), The Marriage Lines (1964), Dad's Army (1969), Doctor in Charge (1972), Beryl's Lot (1973), Fawlty Towers (1979), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983) and Mixed Doubles (1985). He also regularly played the character Leamington Sparr in radio soap The Dales (1963-66).

Tutte Lemkow (Ibrahim) August 28th 1918 to November 10th 1991 (leukaemia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kuiju in Marco Polo (1964)
Played: Ibrahim in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Cyclops in The Myth Makers (1965)
Choreographed: The Celestial Toymaker (1966)
Career highlights
Norwegian born Tutte had a long career appearing in The Lost People (1949), Moulin Rouge (1952), Hancock's Half Hour (1957), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Moon-Spinners (1964), The Wrong Box (1966), Fiddler on the Roof (1971, as the title character), Theatre of Blood (1973), Huntingtower (1978), Sphinx (1981), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Red Sonja (1985). He was also an experienced choreographer, including on Casino Royale (1967), and helped adapt Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1983) for film, for which he was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award.
Facts
Tutte's first wife between 1944-53 was Swedish actress Mai Zetterling, after which he married Ballet Rambert dancer Sara Luzita. A biography of Tutte's life was published in Oslo in 1989.

George Little (Haroun) November 6th 1928 to January 8th 2022
Career highlights
George debuted in Close My Door (1957), then Maigret (1961), Man of the World (1962), The Plane Makers (1963), A Tale of Two Cities (1965), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), I, Claudius (1976), The Professionals (1980), Minder (1984), Boon (1986), Evita (1996) and The Brief (2005). George also had regular roles as Rev Edward Ruskin in Emmerdale Farm (1973-74/93) and Dicker in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-90).
Facts
George was an expert on the composer Frederick Delius, an appreciation of whom he passed on to his classical violinist daughter, Tasmin Little.

Petra Markham (Safiya) Born March 17th 1944
Career highlights
Petra started her acting career playing Alice Beverley in The Children of the New Forest (1964), then appeared in Five More (1966), The Revenue Men (1967), The Expert (1969), Get Carter (1971), Marked Personal (1974), Angels (1983), Aliens in the Family (1987), Plotlands (1997), Doctors (2007), Hotel Babylon (2008), Criminal Justice (2009), Back to the Garden (2013) and Hoard (2023). She also had regular roles as Lydia Hackett in Albert and Victoria (1970-71), Mikki Diamond in Ace of Wands (1972) and Rose Chapman in EastEnders (1993).
Facts
Petra is the daughter of actor David Markham and radio dramatist Olive Dehn, and her sisters are actress Kika (widow of actor Corin Redgrave), Sonia (who worked as make-up artist on Doctor Who between 1964-66, including The Crusade) and writer Jehane (widow of Rise of the Cybermen actor Roger Lloyd-Pack).

Jean Marsh (Joanna) July 1st 1934 to April 13th 2025 (complications from dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Joanna in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Morgaine in Battlefield (1989)
Played: Party guest in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013, uncredited)
Career highlights
Jean's career began in The Infinite Shoeblack (1952), then The Limping Man (1953), The Twilight Zone (1959), I Spy (1967), UFO (1970), Frenzy (1972), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Hawaii Five-O (1978), Return to Oz (1985), Willow (1988), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989), The Tomorrow People (1994), Fatherland (1994), Dangerfield (1997), Sensitive Skin (2007), Sense and Sensibility (2008), Crooked House (2008), The Last Post (2011), Outlier (2014) and Grantchester (2014). Jean co-created the series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75 and 2010-12, and appeared in it as Rose Buck), and The House of Eliott (1991-94). She had regular roles as Sylvia Parrish in The Informer (1966-67), Roz Keith in 9 to 5 (1982-83) and Mrs Croker in The Ghost Hunter (2000-01).
Awards
1972: Royal Television Society Award for New Female Personality (Upstairs, Downstairs)

1975: Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Upstairs, Downstairs)
2012: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Jean studied ballet as a child in order to overcome a nervous paralysis (Bell's palsy) she suffered as a result of witnessing deaths and bombings during World War Two. Her sister was actor Yvonne Marsh, best known for playing Madge Cartwright in sitcom You Rang, M'Lord?. Jean was married to Third Doctor Jon Pertwee between 1955-60. Trivia fans might like the fact she appeared in Nicholas Courtney's first and last stories in Doctor Who - The Daleks' Master Plan and Battlefield! In 2011, she suffered a minor stroke and heart attack, causing her to miss much of the filming for the second series of the Upstairs, Downstairs reboot.

Diana McKenzie (Hafsa)
This is Diana's only known acting work.

Valentino Musetti (Saracen warrior) Born January 7th 1943
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mongol bandit in Marco Polo (1964, uncredited)
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Played: Prisoner in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Extra in Colony in Space (1971, uncredited), The Time Monster (1972, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other credited acting roles include The Avengers (1962-64), Callan (1972), The Professionals (1980), Bergerac (1988) and Batman (1989). Stuntwork includes The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The New Avengers (1977), Superman II (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), A View to a Kill (1985), Willow (1988), Nightbreed (1990), Alien 3 (1992), Pie in the Sky (1995), Bright Young Things (2003) and 55 Degrees North (2004).
Facts
Italian Valentino was British Junior Judo Champion in 1958, and later went on to become a motor racing driver, competing in the 1970 Brazilian series and in the MCD Formule Libre Championship (which he won), the ShellSport 5000 series, and selected Formula 1 & 2 races.

Raymond Novak (Saracen warrior)
His only other CV entry is for Carry On Cowboy (1966).

Reg Pritchard (Ben Daheer) 1925 to January 18th 2013
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ben Daheer in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Man in mackintosh in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Career highlights
Welshman Reg's CV begins with Dixon of Dock Green (1961), then No Hiding Place (1964), Six Shades of Black (1965), The Saint (1966), Public Eye (1968), The Mind of Mr J G Reeder (1969), Budgie (1971), Brett (1971), General Hospital (1973), Billy Liar (1974), Fairies (1978), A Question of Guilt (1980) and Fame is the Spur (1982).

Walter Randall (El Akir) June 26th 1929 to May 5th 2006
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tonila in The Aztecs (1964)
Played: El Akir in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Hyksos in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Patrolman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Harry Slocum in Inferno (1970)
Played: Guard captain in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Dancer/ actor Walter's long career began in Rock You Sinners (1958), then Nudist Paradise (1959), Man from Interpol (1960), The Hands of Orlac (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Danger Man (1964), All Gas and Gaiters (1967), Trial (1971), Follyfoot (1973), The Double Dealers (1974), Target (1977), The Professionals (1980) and Yes, Minister (1982).
Facts
Former dancer Walter went into partnership with Jon Pertwee in the 1970s, owning a hamburger diner called Pertwee's Takeaway for five years. In the late 60s and early 70s, Walter also ran nightclubs and restaurants in London, including the Fiasco Club, Davina's Place, CW's, the 606 Club and Tweedledum.

Zohra Segal (Sheyrah) April 27th 1912 to July 10th 2014 (heart attack) DOCTOR WHO CENTENARIAN!
Doctor Who credits
Played: Attendant to Ping-Cho in Marco Polo (1964, uncredited)
Played: Sheyrah in The Crusade (1965)
Career highlights
Indian Zohra's career began in 1946's Neecha Nagar, then Afsar (1950), Heer (1956), The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Vengeance of She (1968), Strange Report (1969), Tales That Witness Madness (1973), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974), Mind Your Language (1978), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Caravaggio (1986), Tandoori Nights (1985-87), Never Say Die (1987), Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Firm Friends (1992-94), Tamanna (1998), Dillagi (1999), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), The Mistress of Spices (2005) and Cheeni Kum (2007). Zohra also worked as choreographer on productions in the 1940s and 50s.

Awards

2012: International Indian Film Academy Special Award for Cinema at 100
Facts
Zohra was born as Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan and became Doctor Who's first ever centenarian when she turned 100 years old in April 2012. When young, she travelled the world as a dancer and choreographer, and fell in love with a Hindu man eight years her junior. Despite opposition from her parents, the two married, but nobody ever insisted that her husband convert to Islam. Their children chose to reject both faiths, and Zohra became an atheist. Tragically, her husband took his own life in 1959, before Zohra moved to the UK. Her niece is Indian actor Ayesha Raza Mishra.

Vivianne Sorrel (Fatima) Born July 1943
Career highlights
Vivianne's only other credit is Theatre 625's Enter Solly Gold (1965).

Derek Ware (Saracen warrior) February 27th 1938 to September 22nd 2015 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Fight arranger/ stunts: An Unearthly Child (1963), The Aztecs (1964), The Crusade (1965), The Myth Makers (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965), The Smugglers (1966), The Underwater Menace (1967), The Web of Fear (1968), Terror of the Autons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Bus conductor in The Chase (1965, uncredited)
Played: Trojan soldier in The Myth Makers (1965, uncredited)
Played: Tuthmos in The Daleks' Master Plan (1966)
Played: Spaniard in The Smugglers (1966)
Played: Soldier in The Web of Fear (1968, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier/ sergeant in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Private Wyatt in Inferno (1970)
Played: Pigbin Josh in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Career highlights
Derek was a successful stuntman who worked in this capacity on Z Cars (1962), The Spread of the Eagle (1963), The Battle of Culloden (1964), Rupert of Hentzau (1964), The War Game (1965), The Italian Job (1969), The Changes (1975), Doom Castle (1980), Krull (1983), Jane (1984), Ever Decreasing Circles (1986), Hannay (1988), Willow (1988) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), as well as acting in small roles (which often involved stuntwork) in Street Scene (1959), An Age of Kings (1960), The Primitives (1962), The Idol (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), Up the Junction (1968), Witchfinder General (1968), The Italian Job (1969), Budgie (1971), The Lotus Eaters (1972), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), The Onedin Line (1976), King Cinder (1977), Mind Your Language (1979), Cribb (1980), Johnny Jarvis (1983), Last of the Summer Wine (1985/86), Sky Bandits (1986), The Two Ronnies (1977-87), London's Burning (1988), Haggard (1990), Grange Hill (1990) and Revenge of Billy the Kid (1992).
Facts
Derek sustained an injury in 1990 which brought an end to his stunting career, but he became a fencing tutor soon after. In 1965, Derek formed the stunt team HAVOC to work in TV (namely Doctor Who (1970-72), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67) and Dick Barton: Special Agent (1979)); the name hails from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war". For many years, RADA awarded the Derek Ware Prize for the best fight based upon a classical text. In the early 1990s, Derek criticised actor Brian Blessed because the latter had been employed as an unregistered fight arranger for the panto Peter Pan at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Derek believed this would put actors' safety at risk, and was particularly aggrieved as he'd had to take work as a department store Santa Claus over the Christmas period. Derek said: "Brian Blessed is no more a fight director than I am a large and revered character actor." Shortly after, actor Simon Bridge suffered an eye injury after being hit in the face by a sword in a stage fight directed by Blessed. Derek wrote books on his stunting profession: Stunting in the Cinema (1973) and Hollywood Tricks of the Trade (1986).

Bruce Wightman (William de Tornebu) March 5th 1925 to January 8th 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: William de Tornebu in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Scott in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Radio operator in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
New Zealander Bruce began his career in The Black Tulip (1956), then Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Rag Trade (1961), The Heart of Midlothian (1966), Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) and Count Dracula (1977).
Facts
Bruce co-founded London's Dracula Society in 1973 with fellow actor Bernard Davies (who appeared in The War Games). During the 1970s and 80s, Bruce ran Dracula tours in Romania. In the 1990s, he lived in Bulgaria working as an art critic and journalist, but moved back to New Zealand in 2001 to continue writing about the career of Bram Stoker.

CREW

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

Douglas Camfield (director) May 8th 1931 to January 27th 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants

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

Dennis Spooner (story editor) December 1st 1932 to September 20th 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror

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The Web Planet

The Optera were just one type of
creature which inhabited Vortis

First broadcast Feb 13 to Mar 20 1965

1. The Web Planet (13.5m)

2. The Zarbi (12.5m)

3. Escape to Danger (12.5m)

4. Crater of Needles (13.0m)

5. Invasion (12.0m)

6. The Centre (11.5m)
Average audience for serial: 12.50m

• None of the guest cast is facially recognisable from The Web Planet, but you can see some of the actors' real faces at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story at Time Space Visualiser!

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.

Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Born June 29th 1943 For a full career biography of Maureen O'Brien, click here.

CREDITED GUEST CAST

Jocelyn Birdsall (Hlynia) December 8th 1933 to November 10th 1993
Career highlights
Other credits include The Little Round House (1955), Sword of Freedom (1957), Sapphire (1959), Emergency Ward 10 (1959), You Can't Win (1961), Richard the Lionheart (1963), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Power Game (1966) and The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens (1970).
Facts
Jocelyn changed her professional name from her maiden name of Britton to her married name of Birdsall in 1963 in memory of her late husband, Timothy Birdsall, who died of leukaemia aged just 27. Timothy was a satirical cartoonist for the TV programme That Was the Week That Was, on which he produced a cartoon live on air each week, as well as publications such as the Sunday Times, Punch and Private Eye.

Arthur Blake (Hrhoonda) November 7th 1929 to November 27th 2001
Career highlights
Debuted in Quatermass 2 (1957), then No Hiding Place (1959/61), Crane (1965), Frontier (1968), Hine (1971), War & Peace (1972), Heil Caesar! (1973), The Cherry Picker (1974), Striker (1976), The Professionals (1978), Born and Bred (1980), When the Boat Comes In (1981), Holding the Fort (1982), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984), Murder of a Moderate Man (1985), Sorry! (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), Star Trap (1989), Campion (1990) and No Bananas (1996).

Jolyon Booth (Prapillus) August 1st 1932 to February 25th 2025
Career highlights
Jolyon debuted in No Hiding Place (1964), then Crane (1965), The Baron (1966) and Georgy Girl (1966), but then gave up acting to become a maths and science teacher at Mount Kelly in Devon where he also introduced pupils to their first computer. After retirement he ran a walking and cycling holiday firm in Norfolk, and was also involved with the Reepham Society and parish council in the county.

Roslyn De Winter (Vrestin) Born October 5th 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Vrestin in The Web Planet (1965)
Insect movement: The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Grey lady in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Australian mime artiste Roslyn's other work includes The Big Day (1959), Anthony and Cleopatra (1959), Day of the Drongo (1964), Interlude (1968), Champion House (1968), Homicide (1970), The Long Arm (1970), Dimboola: the Stage Play (1973), Cash and Company (1975), Mouth to Mouth (1978), Against the Wind (1978), Special Squad (1984) and All the Rivers Run II (1990).

Catherine Fleming (Animus voice) February 17th 1932 to October 4th 1978 (broncho-pneumonia)
Career highlights
In an interview with the Radio Times in 1950, Catherine - also known as Kate Fleming - said she initially wanted to pursue a career as a doctor. Prior to completing her studies in 1953, she won the John Masefield Prize for verse speaking and the inaugural BBC Drama Students' Prize, which brought her a contract to work for the BBC. In the mid-1950s she worked on various BBC radio productions, and then became a drama teacher, and a voice coach for RADA, the Royal Ballet and the National Theatre throughout the 1960s and 70s, working with actors like Ian McKellen, Laurence Olivier (teaching him how to lower his voice to play Othello) and Diana Rigg. The last project Catherine worked on as voice coach before she died was Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess.
Facts
Between 1972-76, Catherine gave voice lessons to politician Margaret Thatcher to "reduce her annoying shrieking". Thatcher became British Prime Minister in May 1979, seven months after Catherine died. In the 2011 film The Iron Lady, about Thatcher's life and career, the role of the voice coach is played by a man, Christopher Luscombe. In 1979, a group of actors founded The Kate Fleming Memorial Trust, which provided financial aid to students of the Rose Bruford Training College for Speech and Drama. The Trust was wound up in 2005. The Catherine Fleming Collection held by the Royal National Theatre Archive contains a call sheet for episode one of The Web Planet, and a front sheet of the script for episode two. With special thanks to Tom Lingwood.

Arne Gordon (Hrostar) Died 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hrostar in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Guide in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who as a humanoid butterfly, Arne went on to appear in No Hiding Place (1966), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), Judge Dee (1969), Van der Valk (1973), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989).
Facts
In his 2013 memoir Before Mandela's Rainbow, South African director and writer Edward Joffe recalls that Arne was a close friend of stuntman Jack Sholomir and used to hang out at the Yeoville swimming baths in Johannesburg in the 1950s.

Martin Jarvis (Hilio) Born August 4th 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hilio in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Governor in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Martin has enjoyed a long and prolific career, starting with The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), then Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Little Women (1970), The Moonstone (1972), The Pallisers (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Black Tower (1985), Buster (1988), the narrator of children's series Huxley Pig (1989), Inspector Morse (1991), Murder Most Horrid (1991), The Scarlet and the Black (1993), Space: Above and Beyond (1996), Titanic (1997), Lorna Doone (2000), The Queen's Nose (2003), Numb3rs (2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2007), Taking the Flak (2008), Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010), EastEnders (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Wreck-It Ralph (2012, voice), Endeavour (2013), Law and Order UK (2014), United Passions (2014), Casualty (1992/2017), Election Spy (2017) and Father Brown (2025). He had regular roles as Jolyon in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Sam Harvey in Breakaway (1980) and Oliver Pryde in Rings on Their Fingers (1978-80). Between 2011-24 Martin voiced Alfred Pennyworth in a series of Batman video games.
Awards
2000: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Since 1974 he has been married to actress Rosalind Ayres. His son Toby is a leading TV and radio composer, working on series such as Love Island and Survival of the Fittest. Martin's voice is familiar to many radio drama listeners, as well as those who listen to talking books. 
This is Your Life: Martin was the subject of BBC TV's This is Your Life on November 29th, 1999, surprised by host Michael Aspel while appearing on Gyles Brandreth's LBC radio show.

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

Barbara Joss (Nemini) Born March 12th 1937

Doctor Who credits

Played: Nemini in The Web Planet (1965)

Played: Double for Vicki in The Chase (1965, uncredited)
Career highlights
Barbara's other work includes A Girl Called Jo (1956), Harpers West One (1961), Homicide (1966), Adventures of the Seaspray (1967), Contrabandits (1968), Skippy: The Bush Kangaroo (1968), Riptide (1969), Sons and Daughters (1987) and Rafferty's Rules (1989).
Facts
In 1999, she wrote (with Libby Harkness) the autobiographical My Left Breast - How Breast Cancer Transformed My Life, a combination of her life story (including her showbiz career and three clinical depressions) and the experience of having a mastectomy (in 1998 she made a TV advertisement addressing mastectomies).

Hugh Lund (Zarbi operator/ Larvae gun) c.1925 to December 29th 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi/ larvae gun in The Web Planet (1965). Note: Despite being credited as operating a Zarbi, Hugh revealed in a 2008 interview that he actually operated the larvae gun, and never a Zarbi at all.
Played: Matthews in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
Hugh's other work included A for Andromeda (1961), Moonstrike (1963), Suspense (1963), The Spanish Farm (1968), Spy! (1980) and The Borgias (1981).

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

John Scott Martin (Zarbi operator) April 1st 1926 to January 6th 2009 (Parkinson's Disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Daleks in The Chase (1965), Mission to the Unknown (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66), The Power of the Daleks (1966), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), Day of the Daleks (1972), Frontier in Space (1973), Planet of the Daleks (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Genesis of the Daleks (1975), The Five Doctors (1983), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: IMC robot in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Charlie in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Mutt in The Mutants (1972)
Played: Gell Guard in The Three Doctors (1972-73, uncredited)
Played: Hughes in The Green Death (1973)
Played: Guard in Robot (1974-75, uncredited)
Played: Kriz in The Brain of Morbius (1975)
Played: Nucleus of the Swarm in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Career highlights
John's long career began in 1958's The Frog, and he went on to play usually bit-part roles in TV and films, such as Quatermass and the Pit (1959), A for Andromeda (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Our Man at St Mark's (1965), The Likely Lads (1965-66, as the barman), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Out of the Unknown (1969), Take Three Girls (1971), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1971), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973), No Sex Please: We're British (1973), Beryl's Lot (1975), The Good Life (1975), I, Claudius (1976), The Duchess of Duke Street (1977), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), The Tripods (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Erik the Viking (1989), Bullseye! (1990), London's Burning (1991), Ali G Indahouse (2002) and Mine All Mine (2004).
Facts
John also appeared in Catatonia's video for Dead from the Waist Down (1999). In later years he was a church warden and school governor in Essex.

Jack Pitt (Zarbi operator) July 15th 1940 to May 26th 2003 (bronchial pneumonia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Mire beast in The Chase (1965)
Played: Cabin steward in The Chase (1965)

Played: Fungoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Gearon in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Career highlights
Jack's only other credited work was playing Horatio in Nelson: A Study in Miniature (1966).

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

Ian Thompson (Hetra) August 11th 1939 to July 16th 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hetra in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Malsan in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Ian's prolific career began with 1956's David Copperfield, followed by roles in The Old Curiosity Shop (1962), Albert! (1970), The Persuaders (1972), Crown Court (1974), Sam (1975), Couples (1975), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Thomas and Sarah (1979), County Hall (1982), Freud (1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Inside Story (1986), Bergerac (1987), Andy Capp (1988), Moon and Son (1992), Our Friends in the North (1996), Midsomer Murders (1999), Poirot (2001), Down to Earth (2004), Wire in the Blood (2005) and The All Together (2007). He had the regular role of John Porter in A Family at War (1970-72), and toward the end of his career provided the voice of Big Hat Logan in the Dark Souls videogames (2011-12).

CREW

Bill Strutton (writer) February 23rd 1918 to November 23rd 2003
Career highlights
Australian Bill wrote for television and film, including Ivanhoe (1958), The Avengers (1961), Rendezvous (1960-61), The Saint (1963), The Protectors (1964), Undermind (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1966-67), No Hiding Place (1959-67), The Pathfinders (1973) and Crown Court (1973). He also wrote for and script edited Adventures of the Seaspray (1965-67) and Strange Report (1969).
Facts
During World War Two Bill was captured by the Germans and sent to Stalag VII. After the war he took up writing and journalism (writing several books, including A Jury of Angels (1957) and The Island of Terrible Friends (1961)), but retired in 1978 following a heart attack. He died on Doctor Who's 40th anniversary.

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

Dennis Spooner (story editor) December 1st 1932 to September 20th 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror

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The Romans

Derek Francis as the amorous
Emperor Nero

First broadcast Jan 16 to Feb 6 1965

1. The Slave Traders (13.0m)

2. All Roads Lead to Rome (11.5m)

3. Conspiracy (10.0m)

4. Inferno (12.0m)
Average audience for serial: 11.63m

• A pictorial guide to the guest cast can be seen at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story at Time Space Visualiser!

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.

Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Born June 29th 1943 For a full career biography of Maureen O'Brien, click here.

CREDITED GUEST CAST

Bart Allison (Maximus Pettulian) December 1st 1890 to June 29th 1978
Career highlights
Bart's earliest credit was as an Ugly Sister in a TV adaptation of Cinderella, broadcast in December 1947, after which he secured work in Vengeance is Mine (1949), The End of the Affair (1955), Three Golden Nobles (1959), Bootsie and Snudge (1960), Sherlock Holmes (1965), Softly Softly (1966), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Late Night Horror (1968), Carry On Loving (1970), Hadleigh (1973), No Sex Please: We're British (1973), Moody and Pegg (1975), Angels (1976) and Maidens' Trip (1977).

Facts

At 87, Bart was the oldest actor to have appeared in Doctor Who at the time of his death.

John Caesar (Second man in market) January 23rd 1926 to June 11th 2000 (pancreatic cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second man in market in The Romans (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Played: Monoid Four in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cowboy in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Pirate guard in The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Played: CPO Myers in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: R/T soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in Paul of Tarsus (1960), then The Lenny the Lion Show (1961), Maigret (1963), Bat Out of Hell (1966), No Hiding Place (1967), Germinal (1970), The Guardians (1971), War and Peace (1972), Boy Dominic (1974), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Lorna Doone (1976), Janet and Company (1982), Bootle Saddles (1984), Big Deal (1984) and The Bill (1989).

Peter Diamond (Delos) August 10th 1929 to March 27th 2004 (stroke)
Doctor Who credits
Stunts: The Daleks (1964, uncredited), The Rescue (1965, uncredited), The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Fight arranger: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964), The Romans (1965), The Space Museum (1965), The Chase (1965), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), The War Games (1969), The Daemons (1971)

Played: Roboman in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964, uncredited)
Played: Delos in The Romans (1965)

Played: Morok technician/ guard in The Space Museum (1965)
Played: Sailor in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Davis in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Extra in The Enemy of the World (1967-68, uncredited)
Played: Double for Dr Who/ Salamander in The Enemy of the World (1967-68, uncredited)
Played: Confederate horseman in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Alien guard in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Career highlights
Peter was one of the most prolific stuntmen in the UK, starting out on The Three Musketeers (1954), followed by The Gordon Honour (1955-56), The Cabin in the Clearing (1959), Ghost Squad (1963), Children of the Damned (1964), Carry On Cleo (1964), Alfie (1966), Follyfoot (1971), Star Wars (1977), Poldark (1977), Return of the Saint (1978-79), Dick Turpin (1979), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Superman II (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), Lifeforce (1985), Superman IV (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), TECX (1990), Zorro (1990-93, some episodes of which he also directed), Highlander (1992-93), Hamish Macbeth (1995-96), One Foot in the Grave (1996), Oktober (1998), Monarch of the Glen (2002) and Heartbeat (1996-2004), as well as a great many James Bond and Hammer films.
Facts
Peter learnt his craft from Hollywood action man Errol Flynn. He will be remembered by a generation of Star Wars fans as the Tusken Raider who attacks Luke in the original film, as well as the man who devised the definitive method of handling a light sabre! He died returning home to Durham from Yorkshire after being on the set of the drama Heartbeat as its stunt coordinator.

Dennis Edwards (Centurion) December 28th 1916 to March 15th 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Centurion in The Romans (1965)
Played: Lord Gomer in The Invasion of Time (1978)
Career highlights
Debuted in Toad of Toad Hall (1953), followed by The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956), The Black Brigand (1956), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), Private Investigator (1959), Ghost Squad (1963), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967), Jackanory (1971), Father Brown (1974), The Brothers (1976), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), People Like Us (1978), Ladykillers (1981), No Problem! (1983), Grange Hill (1985) and Birds of a Feather (1991).

Nick Evans (Didius) 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).

Derek Francis (Emperor Nero) November 7th 1923 to March 27th 1984 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Hugely prolific Derek debuted in 1960's Knight Errant Limited, followed by roles in The Long Way Home (1960), The Six Proud Walkers (1962), The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Middlemarch (1968), Up Pompeii! (1970), Jason King (1971), Whoops Baghdad! (1973), Churchill's People (1975), To the Devil a Daughter (1976), Rising Damp (1977), Bless Me Father (1978), Partners (1981), Jemima Shore Investigates (1983) and A Christmas Carol (1984). Derek also had a memorable long-running role as Father Matthew in the sitcoms Oh, Brother! (1969-70) and Oh, Father! (1973), and appeared in a number of Carry On films between 1967-72.
Facts
Derek was a good friend of Jacqueline Hill and her husband Alvin Rakoff, and was the godfather to their two children. With sad irony, Derek played a character called Ernest in Channel 4's mini-series Winter Sunlight (1984), who died of a heart attack in the same week that Derek himself died the same way.

Dorothy-Rose Gribble (Woman slave) July 5th 1917 to October 1st 2014
Career highlights
Other credits include The Crucible (1959), Maigret (1961) and Monitor (1965). Dorothy-Rose was also a theatre producer, writer (in 1977 she wrote a book called My Servant Must Not Fail: A Story of Black Magic in Renaissance Times), poet and guesthouse owner.
Facts
She was a long-time resident of Highclere in Hampshire, and a member of the Highclere Society (Highclere being the location of Downton Abbey's filming). She was apparently a descendant of the poet John Milton. When she died, Dorothy bequeathed her arts studio Westridge to the community of Highclere.
In 2014, two months after her death, Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Dorothy-Rose here.

Barry Jackson (Ascaris) March 29th 1938 to December 5th 2013 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ascaris in The Romans (1965)
Played: Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown (1965)
Played: Drax in The Armageddon Factor (1979)
Career highlights
Barry enjoyed a long career, starting with An Age of Kings (1960) and taking in A for Andromeda (1961), The Desperate People (1963), Kenilworth (1967), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Doomwatch (1972), Diamonds on Wheels (1974), Poldark (1975), Moll Flanders (1975), The New Avengers (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Churchill and the Generals (1979), Cribb (1981), Them and Us (1985), Fortunes of War (1987), Growing Rich (1992), Three Seven Eleven (1993-94), Bernard's Watch (1999-2000), Wimbledon (2004), Derailed (2005), Toscanini in His Own Words (2009), Foster (2011) and The Wedding Video (2012). He played Walter Peters in A Touch of Frost (1994/2002) and played pathologist Dr George Bullard in 76 episodes of Midsomer Murders (1997-2011; when he left, he said the series was getting "too saucy"!). Barry also acted as a fight arranger under the name Jack Barry, most notably on Adam Adamant Lives! (1966).
Facts
Barry was named after the theatre impresario Sir Barry Jackson, founder of Birmingham Rep.

Ernest Jennings (First man in market) January 9th 1902 to March 1st 1994
Doctor Who credits
Played: First man in market in The Romans (1965)

Played: Highlander in The Highlanders (1966, uncredited)
Played: Peasant in State of Decay (1980, uncredited)
Played: Aged rebel [Verne] in The Trial of a Time Lord (1986, uncredited)
Career highlights
Ernest debuted in Top Secret (1962), followed by Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965), The Goodies (1970), Psychomania (1973), Steptoe and Son (1974), Kizzy (1976), Bless Me Father (1981), Objects of Affection (1982) and Late Expectations (1987).

Facts

At 92, Ernest was the oldest actor to have appeared in Doctor Who at the time of his death.

Edward Kelsey (Slave buyer) June 4th 1930 to April 23rd 2019 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Slave buyer in The Romans (1965)
Played: Resno in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Edu in The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Career highlights
Debuted in Mary Britten MD (1958), then The Men from Room 13 (1961), The Avengers (1962), St Ives (1967), The Saint (1968), Doomwatch (1970), Cranford (1972), Shoestring (1979), Minder (1982), Anna of the Five Towns (1985), Casualty (1987), The Vicar of Dibley (1994), Brush with Fate (2003) and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Edward memorably provided the voice of Baron Silas Greenback and Colonel K in the cartoon series Danger Mouse (1981-92). He also played Joe Grundy on BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers from 1985 until his death, providing his vocal performance right to the end from his nursing home.

Facts

Edward provided the descriptive commentary for blind visitors to the Palace of Westminster. Edward's son Peter predeceased him.

Gertan Klauber (Galley master) March 5th 1932 to August 1st 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Galley master in The Romans (1965)
Played: Ola in The Macra Terror (1967)
Career highlights
Gertan's lengthy career began in Assignment Foreign Legion (1957), then The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1958), The Big Pull (1962), Carry On Cleo (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Avengers (1969), The Goodies (1970), Carry On Henry (1971), Upstairs Downstairs (1974), Poldark (1977), Octopussy (1983), Blackadder the Third (1987), House of Cards (1990), The Famous Five (1997) and Red Cap (2003).
Facts
Czech-born Gertan was married to actress Gwendolyn Watts (sister of fellow actor Sally Watts), who appeared in three medical-themed Carry On films. They had two children, one of whom - Daniel - predeceased Gertan.

Tony Lambden (Court messenger) December 10th 1933 to September 21st 2006

Doctor Who credits

Played: Citizen of Millennius in The Keys of Marinus (1964, uncredited)

Played: Revolutionary soldier in The Reign of Terror (1964, uncredited)

Played: Rebel in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964, uncredited)

Played: Court messenger in The Romans (1965)
Career highlights
Tony's other credits include Eyes Down and Look In (1963), The Avengers (1964), Steptoe and Son (1965) and Frankie Howerd (1966).

Kay Patrick (Poppaea) September 2nd 1941 to June 2nd 2026
Doctor Who credits
Played: Poppaea in The Romans (1965)
Played: Flower in The Savages (1966)
Career highlights
Kay started her career in front of the cameras, appearing in The Call (1962), The Flying Swan (1965), Nana (1968) and The First Churchills (1969), but then moved behind the camera to become director on soaps such as EastEnders (1986), Brookside (1992-94), Springhill (1996-97) and Emmerdale (1998-99), as well as Dramarama (1987-89), Jupiter Moon (1990), In Suspicious Circumstances (1993-94), Sunburn (1999) and Holby City (2000). In later years she became a producer on Coronation Street (1996-97), Sunburn (1999-2000), Merseybeat (2002) and Crossroads (2001-03). Her latter career concentrated on directing more than 260 episodes of soap opera Coronation Street (1994-2015).

Awards

2014: British Soap Award for Best Single Episode (Coronation Street - Hayley's Death) - shared with Chris Fewtrell
Facts
In 2009, Kay was hit and injured badly by a car while working on Coronation Street (needing a plate in her shoulder and a reconstructed knee), but she was back on set in 2010. In 2016, she wrote a crime novel called The Trial of Marie Montrecourt in aid of Alzheimer's Society.

Michael Peake (Tavius) October 13th 1918 to April 1st 1967
Career highlights
Michael's earliest credit was the narrator of The Ambermere Treasure (1955), followed by roles in Manuela (1957), William Tell (1959), Strip Tease Murder (1961), Strongroom (1962), The Gorgon (1964), The Troubleshooters (1965), The Avengers (1966) and The Rat Catchers (1967).

Brian Proudfoot (Tigilinus) March 15th 1932 to September 7th 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dr Who in The Reign of Terror (1964, uncredited), The Space Museum (1965, uncredited)

Played: Parisian citizen in The Reign of Terror (1964, uncredited)
Played: Tigilinus in The Romans (1965)

Played: Aridian in The Chase (1965, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other work includes The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962), Moonstrike (1963) and The Desperate People (1963).
Facts
Brian has the honour of being the first actor to appear in Doctor Who on location - doubling as the Doctor! The shots of the Doctor wandering the French countryside in The Reign of Terror (1964) are actually Proudfoot, not William Hartnell.

Derek Sydney (Sevcheria) January 11th 1920 to June 18th 2000 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Derek's earliest credit was a 1949 adaptation of Macbeth, followed by roles in Hot Ice (1952), The Constant Husband (1955), Man from Tangier (1957), Sword of Freedom (1957-58), The Men from Room 13 (1959), Danger Man (1960), Carry On Spying (1964), The Likely Lads (1966), Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) and Timeslip (1971).

Facts

Derek retired from actors' union Equity in 1990 and passed away in San Marcos, California, where he was a part-time resident.

Margot Thomas (Stallholder) January 16th 1919 to September 26th 2008 (cancer)
Career highlights
Margot debuted in Oliver Twist (1962), followed by roles in Katy (1962), Z Cars (1967), Take Three Girls (1969), The Befrienders (1972), The Dragon's Opponent (1973), The Stud (1978), Roger Doesn't Live Here Any More (1981), Bullseye! (1990) and After Henry (1992).
Facts
Margot was an ardent supporter of the theatre, and in the 1960s helped revive the fortunes of Henley's Kenton Theatre, which first opened in 1805 but fell on hard times in 1963. Her husband was RAF pilot Gilbert Travers Thomas, who also wrote screenplays for the BBC in the 1940s and 50s.

Ann Tirard (Locusta) June 5th 1917 to August 12th 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: Locusta in The Romans (1965)
Played: The Seeker in The Ribos Operation (1978)
Career highlights
Ann's earliest credit was on Nathaniel Titlark (1957), then Violent Playground (1958), Emergency Ward 10 (1960), The Avengers (1961), Let's Go Out (1965), Witchfinder General (1968), Rogues' Gallery (1969), Jane Eyre (1973), Crossroads (1966-67), Within These Walls (1976-78), Schalcken the Painter (1979), Moonlighting (1982), The Witches (1990) and Devil's Advocate (1995).
Facts
Ann was married to actor William Lyon Brown.

CREW

Dennis Spooner (writer & story editor) December 1st 1932 to September 20th 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror

Christopher Barry (director) September 20th 1925 to February 7th 2014 (following a fall) Click here for Christopher Barry'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

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