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| The Doctor (William Hartnell) pays a visit to the dentist and meets gunslinger Doc Holliday (Anthony Jacobs) and singer Kate (Sheena Marshe) |
1. A Holiday for the Doctor (6.5m)
2. Don't Shoot the Pianist (6.6m)
3. Johnny Ringo (6.2m)
4. The OK Corral (5.7m)
Average audience for serial: 6.25m
Reed De Rouen (Pa Clanton) June 10th 1917 to June 11th 1986
Career highlights
American Reed's other acting credits include The Case of the Frightened Lady (1948), The Third Man (1949), The Six Men (1951), Lady in the Fog (1952), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), The Invisible Man (1959), Interpol Calling (1960), The Hand (1960), Triton (1961), Moonstrike (1963), Ghost Squad (1964), The Troubleshooters (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), The Revolutionary (1970) and Baxter! (1973). He was also a prolific writer, for The Six Men (1951), Miss Robin Hood (1952), Ghost Squad (1961-64), The Avengers (1961/63), Crane (1964), Orlando (1965), The Man in Room 17 (1965-67) and Man in a Suitcase (1968). He also story edited 11 episodes of The Avengers in 1961, uncredited.
Facts
Reed - who was of half-Native American (Oneida) extraction - submitted a speculative seven-episode script to the Doctor Who team in the summer of 1970, in conjunction with Jon Pertwee, entitled The Spare Part People (aka Labyrinth and The Brain Drain). It involved the Doctor posing as a Cambridge don to investigate a series of disappearances, but the Doctor himself is kidnapped and taken to a secret civilisation beneath Antarctica. He also published a science-fiction novel in 1955 entitled Split Image, another called The Heretic in 1964, and collaborated on the crime novel Death List in 1979. He passed away the day after his 69th birthday.
Maurice Good (Phineas Clanton) June 8th 1932 to May 10th 2013
Career highlights
Irishman Maurice's first screen credit was in The Rising of the Moon (1957), then The Ruffians (1960), The Never Never Murder (1961), Bomb in the High Street (1963), Z Cars (1964), Traitor's Gate (1964), The Skull (1965), The Deadly Bees (1966), They Came from Beyond Space (1967),Quatermass and the Pit (1967),Special Branch (1969), Softly Softly (1970), Trog (1970), New Scotland Yard (1973), The New Avengers (1977), The Wars (1982), Night Heat (1985-86) and The Taming of the Shrew (1988). It's believed Maurice continued to take small parts into the 21st century, including The Phantom Menace (1999).
Facts
Maurice moved to Canada in 1975 and, in 1989, became a teacher at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, as well as getting involved with the Stratford Festival. Maurice also wrote Every Inch a Lear, a journal of a production of King Lear starring Peter Ustinov and directed by The Keys of Marinus's Robin Phillips, in Canada in 1982. Maurice's further writing work included editing and publishing Enchanted By Dreams: The Journal of a Revolutionary (1996), which chronicled his father Joe's witnessing of the 1916 Easter Uprising and its aftermath (reprinted as Inside the GPO 1916: A First-Hand Account in 2015). He also worked with his brother John on plays such as the unfinished Hang the Bright Colours (1964), The Antonietta, and John Synge Comes Next (1969).
David Graham (Charlie) July 11th 1925 to September 20th 2024 Click here for David Graham's entry on The Daleks
Martyn Huntley (Warren Earp)
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).
William Hurndell (Ike Clanton) July 31st 1933 to July 4th 2019
Career highlights
William's other appearances include Taxi! (1963), Bold as Brass (1964), Catch Hand (1964), Danger Man (1965), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Carry On Follow That Camel (1967), The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) and The Borderers (1970).
Facts
In 2010, William was involved in a High Court case where he claimed more than 33 million shares in a company called Stanelco were stolen from him by Barrie and David Hozier. William's case was dismissed.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with William here.
Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holliday) March 23rd 1918 to August 3rd 1993
Career highlights
Anthony's other credits include The March of the Peasants (1952), Mother Michel and Her Cat (1955), Jesus of Nazareth (1956), Nicholas Nickleby (1957), The Rebel Heiress (1958), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), Danger Man (1960), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960), Paul of Tarsus (1960), The Pursuers (1962), Ghost Squad (1962), Jane Eyre (1963), Richard the Lionheart (1963), The Mill on the Floss (1965), Sinister Street (1969), Roads to Freedom (1970), War and Peace (1972) and Survivors (1977).
Facts
Anthony is the father of Matthew Jacobs, who wrote the script for the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, and who visited his dad on the set of The Gunfighters when he was a 10-year-old boy! Anthony's first wife (and Matthew's mother) was actress Katharine Blake, best known for playing prison governess Helen Forrester in Within These Walls (1976). His other son is writer Martin Jameson, known for Children's Ward, Casualty, Emmerdale, Holby City and The Dumping Ground.
Shane Rimmer (Seth Harper) May 29th 1929 to March 28th 2019
Career highlights
Canadian born Shane's CV stretches back as 1957 in Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans; subsequent appearances include After Hours (1959), 30 episodes of Compact (1963-64, as Russell Corrigan), Dr Strangelove (1964), Orlando (1966), 19 episodes of Coronation Street (1967-70, as Joe Donelli), Quiller (1975), Rollerball (1975), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), The People That Time Forgot (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Warlords of Atlantis (1978), Superman (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979), Bognor (1981), Reds (1981), Gandhi (1982), The Hunger (1983), Alas Smith and Jones (1984), Lace (1984), Dreamchild (1985), Out of Africa (1985), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Roman Holiday (1987), Crusoe (1988), Street Legal (1989), A Kiss Before Dying (1991), Land of Hope and Gloria (1992), Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), Space Truckers (1996), Spy Game (2001), Batman Begins (2005), Alien Autopsy (2006), Lovelorn (2010), Dark Shadows (2012), Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (2016) and The Amazing World of Gumball (2014-17). Shane will be best known for his long association with the works of Gerry Anderson, notably voicing Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds (1965-66), and various roles in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68), Joe 90 (1968-69), UFO (1970-71), Space: 1999 (1975-76) and Dick Spanner PI (1987/2017). He also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet (three), Joe 90 (six), The Secret Service (one, 1969) and The Protectors (two, 1973-74).
CREW
Donald Cotton (writer) April 26th 1928 to December 28th 1999
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Myth Makers (1965), The Gunfighters (1966)
Career highlights
Experienced comedy writer Donald had previously adapted Greek tales for the BBC's Third Programme (starring Max Adrian and scored by Humphrey Searle, both involved in The Myth Makers), as well as writing 1955's The Merry Christmas and the 1956 short film Five Guineas a Week. He went on to help create and write for Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), then turned his attentions to writing for the stage and being a columnist (this included the play My Dear Gilbert, with Jon Pertwee as W.S Gilbert, performed in June 1969, just weeks after Pertwee had accepted the role of the Third Doctor). In 1966, he submitted an undeveloped storyline entitled The Herdsmen of Aquarius to the Doctor Who team, which boasted remarkable similarities to what later became Terror of the Zygons (1975). He also wrote lyrics for Tony Snell's 1973 album Medieval and Latter Day Lays, and in 1986 wrote the children's book The Bodkin Papers for Target Books, the fictional memoirs of a 150-year-old parrot.
Rex
Tucker (director) February 20th 1913 to August 10th 1996
Career highlights
Rex's other directing work included The Tempest (1951), The Silver Swan (1952), The Three Musketeers (1954), St Ives (1955), Triton (1961), Jane Eyre (1963), Madame Bovary (1964), The Mill on the Floss (1965), A Farewell to Arms (1966), The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1968), Sinister Street (1969), Paul Temple (1970) and Z Cars (1972), while he produced for The Cruise of the Toytown Belle (1950), The Man in Armour (1951), The Three Musketeers, Parbottle Speaking (1962) and A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973). He also wrote scripts for some of these series, as well as St Ives (1955 and 1967), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1962), The Massingham Affair (1964), Vanity Fair (1967) and Pegasus (1969).
Facts
Rex joined the BBC as a writer and producer for radio in 1937, and was one of the driving forces behind the creation of Doctor Who in 1963, acting as an uncredited 'caretaker' producer alongside Verity Lambert and Mervyn Pinfield. He initially suggested casting Hugh David in the lead role, and was originally to have directed the first serial. Rex is credited as co-writing the lyrics to Tristram Cary's composition The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon for The Gunfighters, along with Donald Cotton. Rex's daughter is Jane Tucker, best known to many as part of the children's song and dance outfit Rod, Jane and Freddy (from Rainbow).
Average audience for serial: 6.25m
- A pictorial guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry. An episode-by-episode review of this story can be found 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.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
John Alderson (Wyatt Earp) April 10th 1916 to August 4th 2006 (natural causes)
Career highlights
John appeared in over 100 productions, many of them Westerns, with his long CV starting with The Highwayman (1951) and including Against All Flags (1952), Space Patrol (1952-53), Medic (1955), Moonfleet (1955), The Scarlet Coat (1955), Cheyenne (1956), Spoilers of the Forest (1957), Shootout at Medicine Bend (1957), The Californians (1958), No Name on the Bullet (1959), Lawman (1959), Romanoff and Juliet (1961), Follow the Sun (1961), Bronco (1962), The Untouchables (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), The Man from UNCLE (1965), I Spy (1966), The Time Tunnel (1966), The Wild Wild West (1967), Daniel Boone (1967), Tarzan (1967), Hellfighters (1968), Mannix (1969), Mission: Impossible (1970), Brett (1971), Top of the Heap (1972), The Onedin Line (1972), Kung Fu (1973), The Klansman (1974), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Candleshoe (1977), The Cat from Outer Space (1978), The Wild Geese (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Automan (1984), Boon (1987), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) and Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory (1990). He appeared in 37 episodes of Boots and Saddles as Sergeant Bullock (1957-58).
Facts
John, nickname "Basher", started life as a miner, but quit after two weeks to join the British Army, where he rose to the rank of major, before marrying an American General's secretary and getting into acting.
Richard Beale (Bat Masterson) May 13th 1920 to March 27th 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Refusian voice in The Ark (1966)
Played: Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Broadcaster in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Minister of ecology in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Richard's career began in The Battle of the River Plate (1956), followed by roles in Private Investigator (1958), Moonstrike (1963), Madame Bovary (1964), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), Vendetta (1966), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), The Mating Machine (1970), Jude the Obscure (1971), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Special Branch (1974), The Prince and the Pauper (1976), Treasure Island (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), Secret Army (1979), Love in a Cold Climate (1980), Bergerac (1983), Camille (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), The Tripods (1985), Return to Treasure Island (1986), A Handful of Dust (1988), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990), EastEnders (1990-91), A Touch of Frost (1994), Lovejoy (1994), Family Money (1996), The Sins (2000), Down to Earth (2001), Teachers (2004) and Afterlife (2005). He also regularly played Edward Derwent in A Horseman Riding By (1978).
Facts
After leaving the Royal Navy, Richard worked for his father's print firm for a decade until becoming an actor. He retired from the profession in 2005, aged 85, but continued his love of sailing and racing single-handedly until he turned 90. In 2015, he released a memoir entitled One Man's War.
Victor Carin (Virgil Earp) October 1st 1933 to January 2nd 1981 (pancreatic cancer)
Career highlights
Other work includes Storm in a Teacup (1962), A Man Like That (1966), This Man Craig (1966), Coronation Street (1967), Flash the Sheepdog (1968), The Stanley Baxter Show (1967-71), Sunset Song (1971), The View from Daniel Pike (1971), How's Your Father? (1975), Raffles (1977), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), Huntingtower (1978), The Omega Factor (1979) and Doom Castle (1980). He regularly played Inspector Menzies in Sutherland's Law (1973-76), and also wrote and script edited some episodes of soap Take the High Road (1980), and wrote a 1966 TV play called Friday Night's the Best Night.
Facts
Born Vitorio Zaccarini, his final TV appearance was in the BBC1 documentary The Four Seasons: The Last Taboo, which followed his final days facing up to his cancer with dignity, wit and cynicism. Victor is seen at home with his teenage daughter Kate, as well as seeking peace at a monastery, and at the hospice where he died. The programme attracted some controversy at the time of its broadcast in September 1981, as some believed it was an invasion of a dying man's privacy.
David Cole (Billy Clanton) April 8th 1936 to May 23rd 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Billy Clanton in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Citizen in Full Circle (1980, uncredited)
Career highlights
David started his acting career as a child performer, appearing in Quality Street (1947) aged 11, followed by roles in Christopher Columbus (1949), Dear Charles (1956), The Royalty (1958), Little Women (1958), Emma (1960), Emergency Ward 10 (1960-61), William (1962), Z Cars (1964), Orlando (1966), Man in a Suitcase (1967), A Going Concern (1975), The Secrets of Isis (1976), Foul Play (1978), Butterflies (1979), The Old Men at the Zoo (1983), Brotherhood of the Rose (1989), Strangers (1989), Brookside (1991) and Chunuk Bair (1992).
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.
Peter Purves (Steven Taylor) Born February 10th 1939 For a full career biography of Peter Purves, click here.
Jackie Lane (Dodo Chaplet) July 10th 1941 to June 7th 2021 For a full career biography for Jackie Lane, click here.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
John Alderson (Wyatt Earp) April 10th 1916 to August 4th 2006 (natural causes)
Career highlights
John appeared in over 100 productions, many of them Westerns, with his long CV starting with The Highwayman (1951) and including Against All Flags (1952), Space Patrol (1952-53), Medic (1955), Moonfleet (1955), The Scarlet Coat (1955), Cheyenne (1956), Spoilers of the Forest (1957), Shootout at Medicine Bend (1957), The Californians (1958), No Name on the Bullet (1959), Lawman (1959), Romanoff and Juliet (1961), Follow the Sun (1961), Bronco (1962), The Untouchables (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), The Man from UNCLE (1965), I Spy (1966), The Time Tunnel (1966), The Wild Wild West (1967), Daniel Boone (1967), Tarzan (1967), Hellfighters (1968), Mannix (1969), Mission: Impossible (1970), Brett (1971), Top of the Heap (1972), The Onedin Line (1972), Kung Fu (1973), The Klansman (1974), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Candleshoe (1977), The Cat from Outer Space (1978), The Wild Geese (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Automan (1984), Boon (1987), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) and Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory (1990). He appeared in 37 episodes of Boots and Saddles as Sergeant Bullock (1957-58).
Facts
John, nickname "Basher", started life as a miner, but quit after two weeks to join the British Army, where he rose to the rank of major, before marrying an American General's secretary and getting into acting.
Richard Beale (Bat Masterson) May 13th 1920 to March 27th 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Refusian voice in The Ark (1966)
Played: Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Broadcaster in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Minister of ecology in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Richard's career began in The Battle of the River Plate (1956), followed by roles in Private Investigator (1958), Moonstrike (1963), Madame Bovary (1964), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), Vendetta (1966), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), The Mating Machine (1970), Jude the Obscure (1971), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Special Branch (1974), The Prince and the Pauper (1976), Treasure Island (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), Secret Army (1979), Love in a Cold Climate (1980), Bergerac (1983), Camille (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), The Tripods (1985), Return to Treasure Island (1986), A Handful of Dust (1988), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990), EastEnders (1990-91), A Touch of Frost (1994), Lovejoy (1994), Family Money (1996), The Sins (2000), Down to Earth (2001), Teachers (2004) and Afterlife (2005). He also regularly played Edward Derwent in A Horseman Riding By (1978).
Facts
After leaving the Royal Navy, Richard worked for his father's print firm for a decade until becoming an actor. He retired from the profession in 2005, aged 85, but continued his love of sailing and racing single-handedly until he turned 90. In 2015, he released a memoir entitled One Man's War.
Victor Carin (Virgil Earp) October 1st 1933 to January 2nd 1981 (pancreatic cancer)
Career highlights
Other work includes Storm in a Teacup (1962), A Man Like That (1966), This Man Craig (1966), Coronation Street (1967), Flash the Sheepdog (1968), The Stanley Baxter Show (1967-71), Sunset Song (1971), The View from Daniel Pike (1971), How's Your Father? (1975), Raffles (1977), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), Huntingtower (1978), The Omega Factor (1979) and Doom Castle (1980). He regularly played Inspector Menzies in Sutherland's Law (1973-76), and also wrote and script edited some episodes of soap Take the High Road (1980), and wrote a 1966 TV play called Friday Night's the Best Night.
Facts
Born Vitorio Zaccarini, his final TV appearance was in the BBC1 documentary The Four Seasons: The Last Taboo, which followed his final days facing up to his cancer with dignity, wit and cynicism. Victor is seen at home with his teenage daughter Kate, as well as seeking peace at a monastery, and at the hospice where he died. The programme attracted some controversy at the time of its broadcast in September 1981, as some believed it was an invasion of a dying man's privacy.
David Cole (Billy Clanton) April 8th 1936 to May 23rd 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Billy Clanton in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Citizen in Full Circle (1980, uncredited)
Career highlights
David started his acting career as a child performer, appearing in Quality Street (1947) aged 11, followed by roles in Christopher Columbus (1949), Dear Charles (1956), The Royalty (1958), Little Women (1958), Emma (1960), Emergency Ward 10 (1960-61), William (1962), Z Cars (1964), Orlando (1966), Man in a Suitcase (1967), A Going Concern (1975), The Secrets of Isis (1976), Foul Play (1978), Butterflies (1979), The Old Men at the Zoo (1983), Brotherhood of the Rose (1989), Strangers (1989), Brookside (1991) and Chunuk Bair (1992).
Reed De Rouen (Pa Clanton) June 10th 1917 to June 11th 1986
Career highlights
American Reed's other acting credits include The Case of the Frightened Lady (1948), The Third Man (1949), The Six Men (1951), Lady in the Fog (1952), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), The Invisible Man (1959), Interpol Calling (1960), The Hand (1960), Triton (1961), Moonstrike (1963), Ghost Squad (1964), The Troubleshooters (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), The Revolutionary (1970) and Baxter! (1973). He was also a prolific writer, for The Six Men (1951), Miss Robin Hood (1952), Ghost Squad (1961-64), The Avengers (1961/63), Crane (1964), Orlando (1965), The Man in Room 17 (1965-67) and Man in a Suitcase (1968). He also story edited 11 episodes of The Avengers in 1961, uncredited.
Facts
Reed - who was of half-Native American (Oneida) extraction - submitted a speculative seven-episode script to the Doctor Who team in the summer of 1970, in conjunction with Jon Pertwee, entitled The Spare Part People (aka Labyrinth and The Brain Drain). It involved the Doctor posing as a Cambridge don to investigate a series of disappearances, but the Doctor himself is kidnapped and taken to a secret civilisation beneath Antarctica. He also published a science-fiction novel in 1955 entitled Split Image, another called The Heretic in 1964, and collaborated on the crime novel Death List in 1979. He passed away the day after his 69th birthday.
Maurice Good (Phineas Clanton) June 8th 1932 to May 10th 2013
Career highlights
Irishman Maurice's first screen credit was in The Rising of the Moon (1957), then The Ruffians (1960), The Never Never Murder (1961), Bomb in the High Street (1963), Z Cars (1964), Traitor's Gate (1964), The Skull (1965), The Deadly Bees (1966), They Came from Beyond Space (1967),Quatermass and the Pit (1967),Special Branch (1969), Softly Softly (1970), Trog (1970), New Scotland Yard (1973), The New Avengers (1977), The Wars (1982), Night Heat (1985-86) and The Taming of the Shrew (1988). It's believed Maurice continued to take small parts into the 21st century, including The Phantom Menace (1999).
Facts
Maurice moved to Canada in 1975 and, in 1989, became a teacher at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, as well as getting involved with the Stratford Festival. Maurice also wrote Every Inch a Lear, a journal of a production of King Lear starring Peter Ustinov and directed by The Keys of Marinus's Robin Phillips, in Canada in 1982. Maurice's further writing work included editing and publishing Enchanted By Dreams: The Journal of a Revolutionary (1996), which chronicled his father Joe's witnessing of the 1916 Easter Uprising and its aftermath (reprinted as Inside the GPO 1916: A First-Hand Account in 2015). He also worked with his brother John on plays such as the unfinished Hang the Bright Colours (1964), The Antonietta, and John Synge Comes Next (1969).
David Graham (Charlie) July 11th 1925 to September 20th 2024 Click here for David Graham's entry on The Daleks
Martyn Huntley (Warren Earp)
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).
William Hurndell (Ike Clanton) July 31st 1933 to July 4th 2019
Career highlights
William's other appearances include Taxi! (1963), Bold as Brass (1964), Catch Hand (1964), Danger Man (1965), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Carry On Follow That Camel (1967), The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) and The Borderers (1970).
Facts
In 2010, William was involved in a High Court case where he claimed more than 33 million shares in a company called Stanelco were stolen from him by Barrie and David Hozier. William's case was dismissed.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with William here.
Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holliday) March 23rd 1918 to August 3rd 1993
Career highlights
Anthony's other credits include The March of the Peasants (1952), Mother Michel and Her Cat (1955), Jesus of Nazareth (1956), Nicholas Nickleby (1957), The Rebel Heiress (1958), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), Danger Man (1960), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960), Paul of Tarsus (1960), The Pursuers (1962), Ghost Squad (1962), Jane Eyre (1963), Richard the Lionheart (1963), The Mill on the Floss (1965), Sinister Street (1969), Roads to Freedom (1970), War and Peace (1972) and Survivors (1977).
Facts
Anthony is the father of Matthew Jacobs, who wrote the script for the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, and who visited his dad on the set of The Gunfighters when he was a 10-year-old boy! Anthony's first wife (and Matthew's mother) was actress Katharine Blake, best known for playing prison governess Helen Forrester in Within These Walls (1976). His other son is writer Martin Jameson, known for Children's Ward, Casualty, Emmerdale, Holby City and The Dumping Ground.
Sheena Marshe (Kate Fisher) 1935 to February 17th 2019
Career highlights
Sheena's CV also includes Boy Meets Girl (1957), Charlesworth at Large (1958), Educating Archie (1959), Our House (1960), Citizen James (1960), Dentist on the Job (1961), Benny Hill (1962), The Rag Trade (1963), Best of Friends (1963), Act of Murder (1964), The Dick Emery Show (1967), The Prisoner (1968), Wild, Wild Women (1969) and Sinister Street (1969).
Facts
Former fashion model Sheena can be seen attending the 1957 premiere of Woman in a Dressing Gown at the Warner Theatre in London in this British Pathe report (which also includes Doctor Who luminaries Leonard Sachs, Jon Pertwee and John Fraser). Sheena was married for a time to film stuntman Doug Robinson.
Laurence Payne (Johnny Ringo) June 5th 1919 to February 23rd 2009 (vascular dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Morix in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985)
Career highlights
Laurence's further credits include Till Tomorrow (1948), Train of Events (1949), Glad Tidings! (1953), The Face of Love (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), The Trollenberg Terror (1958), The Four Just Men (1959), Ben-Hur (1959), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), The Singer Not the Song (1961), Barabbas (1961), Moonstrike (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Saint (1966), Conqueror's Road (1967), Vampire Circus (1972), The Brontes of Haworth (1973), The Hanged Man (1975), The Sandbaggers (1978), Cribb (1980), Airline (1982) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). He became well known for playing the title character in 60 episodes of Sexton Blake (1967-71).
Facts
Between 1961-87, Laurence wrote 11 detective novels, the first of which (The Nose on My Face) was adapted into the film Girl in the Headlines aka The Model Murder Case (1963). A sword-fighting accident while filming Sexton Blake in 1968 cost him the sight in his left eye. Laurence's first wife (of three) was actress Sheila Burrell, cousin to Sir Laurence Olivier; his second was Pamela Alan. In a 1998 interview with Edinburgh's Evening News, Laurence said: "Dr Who was great fun. I was one of the villains in the second series with that strange elderly man as Dr Who. We did about ten weeks filming at a time, and then had a break. I got on very well with the boy playing Dr Who's grandson. I wasn't in any of the ones with those robots [Daleks] in, thank God! I think I would have laughed!" In truth, The Gunfighters was in Doctor Who's third series, Steven was not Dr Who's grandson, and it took just six weeks to film! In the 1990s, Laurence contracted sepsis, causing some brain damage, and the last three years of his life were spent in a nursing home suffering from vascular dementia.
Career highlights
Sheena's CV also includes Boy Meets Girl (1957), Charlesworth at Large (1958), Educating Archie (1959), Our House (1960), Citizen James (1960), Dentist on the Job (1961), Benny Hill (1962), The Rag Trade (1963), Best of Friends (1963), Act of Murder (1964), The Dick Emery Show (1967), The Prisoner (1968), Wild, Wild Women (1969) and Sinister Street (1969).
Facts
Former fashion model Sheena can be seen attending the 1957 premiere of Woman in a Dressing Gown at the Warner Theatre in London in this British Pathe report (which also includes Doctor Who luminaries Leonard Sachs, Jon Pertwee and John Fraser). Sheena was married for a time to film stuntman Doug Robinson.
Laurence Payne (Johnny Ringo) June 5th 1919 to February 23rd 2009 (vascular dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Morix in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985)
Career highlights
Laurence's further credits include Till Tomorrow (1948), Train of Events (1949), Glad Tidings! (1953), The Face of Love (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), The Trollenberg Terror (1958), The Four Just Men (1959), Ben-Hur (1959), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), The Singer Not the Song (1961), Barabbas (1961), Moonstrike (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Saint (1966), Conqueror's Road (1967), Vampire Circus (1972), The Brontes of Haworth (1973), The Hanged Man (1975), The Sandbaggers (1978), Cribb (1980), Airline (1982) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). He became well known for playing the title character in 60 episodes of Sexton Blake (1967-71).
Facts
Between 1961-87, Laurence wrote 11 detective novels, the first of which (The Nose on My Face) was adapted into the film Girl in the Headlines aka The Model Murder Case (1963). A sword-fighting accident while filming Sexton Blake in 1968 cost him the sight in his left eye. Laurence's first wife (of three) was actress Sheila Burrell, cousin to Sir Laurence Olivier; his second was Pamela Alan. In a 1998 interview with Edinburgh's Evening News, Laurence said: "Dr Who was great fun. I was one of the villains in the second series with that strange elderly man as Dr Who. We did about ten weeks filming at a time, and then had a break. I got on very well with the boy playing Dr Who's grandson. I wasn't in any of the ones with those robots [Daleks] in, thank God! I think I would have laughed!" In truth, The Gunfighters was in Doctor Who's third series, Steven was not Dr Who's grandson, and it took just six weeks to film! In the 1990s, Laurence contracted sepsis, causing some brain damage, and the last three years of his life were spent in a nursing home suffering from vascular dementia.
Shane Rimmer (Seth Harper) May 29th 1929 to March 28th 2019
Career highlights
Canadian born Shane's CV stretches back as 1957 in Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans; subsequent appearances include After Hours (1959), 30 episodes of Compact (1963-64, as Russell Corrigan), Dr Strangelove (1964), Orlando (1966), 19 episodes of Coronation Street (1967-70, as Joe Donelli), Quiller (1975), Rollerball (1975), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), The People That Time Forgot (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Warlords of Atlantis (1978), Superman (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979), Bognor (1981), Reds (1981), Gandhi (1982), The Hunger (1983), Alas Smith and Jones (1984), Lace (1984), Dreamchild (1985), Out of Africa (1985), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Roman Holiday (1987), Crusoe (1988), Street Legal (1989), A Kiss Before Dying (1991), Land of Hope and Gloria (1992), Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), Space Truckers (1996), Spy Game (2001), Batman Begins (2005), Alien Autopsy (2006), Lovelorn (2010), Dark Shadows (2012), Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (2016) and The Amazing World of Gumball (2014-17). Shane will be best known for his long association with the works of Gerry Anderson, notably voicing Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds (1965-66), and various roles in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68), Joe 90 (1968-69), UFO (1970-71), Space: 1999 (1975-76) and Dick Spanner PI (1987/2017). He also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet (three), Joe 90 (six), The Secret Service (one, 1969) and The Protectors (two, 1973-74).
Facts
Shane started out as a singer, and in 1958 was host of his own music TV show in Canada called Come Fly with Me. The following year he joined the musical trio The Three Deuces, which brought him to the UK where he met and married dancer Sheila Logan, who became his agent. In 2014 he self-published a novel entitled Long Shot.
CREW
Donald Cotton (writer) April 26th 1928 to December 28th 1999
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Myth Makers (1965), The Gunfighters (1966)
Career highlights
Experienced comedy writer Donald had previously adapted Greek tales for the BBC's Third Programme (starring Max Adrian and scored by Humphrey Searle, both involved in The Myth Makers), as well as writing 1955's The Merry Christmas and the 1956 short film Five Guineas a Week. He went on to help create and write for Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), then turned his attentions to writing for the stage and being a columnist (this included the play My Dear Gilbert, with Jon Pertwee as W.S Gilbert, performed in June 1969, just weeks after Pertwee had accepted the role of the Third Doctor). In 1966, he submitted an undeveloped storyline entitled The Herdsmen of Aquarius to the Doctor Who team, which boasted remarkable similarities to what later became Terror of the Zygons (1975). He also wrote lyrics for Tony Snell's 1973 album Medieval and Latter Day Lays, and in 1986 wrote the children's book The Bodkin Papers for Target Books, the fictional memoirs of a 150-year-old parrot.
Career highlights
Rex's other directing work included The Tempest (1951), The Silver Swan (1952), The Three Musketeers (1954), St Ives (1955), Triton (1961), Jane Eyre (1963), Madame Bovary (1964), The Mill on the Floss (1965), A Farewell to Arms (1966), The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1968), Sinister Street (1969), Paul Temple (1970) and Z Cars (1972), while he produced for The Cruise of the Toytown Belle (1950), The Man in Armour (1951), The Three Musketeers, Parbottle Speaking (1962) and A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973). He also wrote scripts for some of these series, as well as St Ives (1955 and 1967), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1962), The Massingham Affair (1964), Vanity Fair (1967) and Pegasus (1969).
Facts
Rex joined the BBC as a writer and producer for radio in 1937, and was one of the driving forces behind the creation of Doctor Who in 1963, acting as an uncredited 'caretaker' producer alongside Verity Lambert and Mervyn Pinfield. He initially suggested casting Hugh David in the lead role, and was originally to have directed the first serial. Rex is credited as co-writing the lyrics to Tristram Cary's composition The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon for The Gunfighters, along with Donald Cotton. Rex's daughter is Jane Tucker, best known to many as part of the children's song and dance outfit Rod, Jane and Freddy (from Rainbow).
Innes Lloyd (producer) December 24th 1925 to August 23rd 1991 (cancer) Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker
Gerry Davis (script editor) February 23rd 1930 to August 31st 1991 (stomach cancer) Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
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