The best guest actors of season 1 of "Doctor Who"
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- Mark Eden was born on 14 February 1928 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Pleasure Girls (1965) and London Belongs to Me (1977). He was married to Sue Nicholls, Diana Eden and Joan Le Mesurier. He died on 1 January 2021.Marco Polo
(Marco Polo) - Actor
- Writer
- Director
Rather intriguing British actor who first appeared on UK cinema & TV screens in the late 1950s, and quickly found steady work as a rather unpleasant or untrustworthy individual. His cold, yet cunning features had him appearing in guest roles on many UK TV series including The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) and William Tell (1958), and the 1960s then proved to be his busiest period of work!
Nesbitt put in strong, intelligent performances in the WW1 aviation spectacle The Blue Max (1966), as a cold war agent pursuing Frank Sinatra in The Naked Runner (1967) and probably his best remembered role, as Major Von Hapen, an ice cold Gestapo officer nearly foiling Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton plans in Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The talented Nesbitt also wrote, directed and starred in the fairly tepid The Amorous Milkman (1975) and was kept busy through most of the 1970s in further espionage / action films. Before the end of that decade, however, demand for his talents began to wane heavily (following a series of newspaper stories suggesting he could be as unpleasant in real life as some of the characters he played on-screen) and in the 80s and 90s, he made appearances in only a handful of films. His last film appearance to date was in the crime thriller Double X: The Name of the Game (1992).Tegana
(Marco Polo)- Keith Pyott was born on 9 March 1902 in Blackheath, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Big Pull (1962), Doctor Who (1963) and Chimes at Midnight (1965). He was married to Sheila Raynor. He died on 6 April 1968 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK.Autloc
(The Aztecs) - Margot Van der Burgh was born on 14 November 1918 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Great Expectations (1959), Doctor Who (1963) and Jane Eyre (1956). She died on 14 July 2008 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.Cameca
(The Aztecs) - Donald Morley was born on 9 June 1923 in Fulham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Railway Children (1957), Westway (1976) and The Crime of the Century (1956). He was married to Marianne Morley and Enid Irvin. He died on 27 May 1999 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.Jules Renan
(The Reign of Terror) - Actor
- Writer
James Cairncross was born on 21 December 1915 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Tom Jones (1963), Doctor Who (1963) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 17 December 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.Lemaitre
(The Reign of Terror)- Actor
- Soundtrack
John Lee was born on 31 March 1928 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor, known for Return to Eden (1983), Warship (1973) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on 21 December 2000 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Alydon
(The Daleks)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Stephen Dartnell was born on 30 April 1931 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Second Best (1972), Doctor Who (1963) and A Tale of Two Cities (1965). He died in 1994.John
(The Sensorites)- Sharp-featured, incisive Surrey-born actor whose chief trademark was a memorably mellifluous voice. This, he used to maximum effect as a tool for impersonating a gallery of suave, urbane - usually rather likeable - villains, rogues and assorted shady types. He often imbued these characters with an air of smugly superior disdain.
Alan had reinvented himself as an actor after abandoning his first profession as industrial psychologist. He made his theatrical debut in 1928 in "Heartbreak House" by by George Bernard Shaw and appeared on the London stage two years later. For the remainder of the decade, he made a living as a supporting player (with a penchant for period costume) in works by Shakespeare, John Galsworthy, J.M. Barrie, and Oscar Wilde. While preferring the intimacy offered by provincial theatre, he also shone on the grander stage of the Old Vic, and, in 1936, appeared in "St. Helena" on Broadway. That same year, he made his feature film debut in The Conquest of the Air (1931).
During World War II, Alan's voice was heard regularly as announcer and newsreader for the BBC European Service. This led to a constant stream of work as a radio actor and reader of English literature and poetry. In the course of the next three decades, he impersonated the good (detective Lord Peter Wimsey) and the bad (Othello, Judas, Richard III) with equal verve. His television career -- beginning in 1938 -- went along a similar path. Alan was the very first 'BBC Sherlock Holmes' in 1951, taking his cue for the role from the drawings of Sidney Paget and the characterisations by Arthur Conan Doyle. The six instalments (all live transmissions) were well-received but did Alan no favour: the resulting publicity led his agent to ask for higher salaries and this, in turn, led to fewer job offers.
On the big screen, Alan was best served by being the ill-fated Fred Hale in Brighton Rock (1948); the duplicitous traveller on the Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948); and the corrupt financier Mark Cruden in Delayed Action (1954). On television, he will remain the definitive incarnation of the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). Alan's sheriff is devious and cunning, a sophisticated arch villain of great clarity, an equal to the hero -- if it were not, of course, for the ineptitude of his minions. After the end of his tenure as Richard Greene's nemesis, Alan popped up as assorted police inspectors, professional types, legal eagles and men of the cloth, in many a popular series, including Danger Man (1960) and Department S (1969). He retired from the screen in 1970, and died in August 1991 in London at the age of 84.Temmosus
(The Daleks) - Born in Burma on December 11th, 1945, of an English father and a Burmese mother, Zienia lived in Singapore, then in Borneo and was schooled in Portugal. Zienia's childhood wish was to become a dancer, and upon securing her father's agreement she was registered at the dancing and acting school led by the "Arts Education Trust" in Tring, Hertfordshire, UK. But, as Zienia progressed, she found herself rather more interested in modern dance. Enjoying public performance, and taking into consideration her changing interests, she found herself gravitating towards the acting field. Without any official training, she began her career as an actress in the 1960s while still a teenager. It was a decade later, in the mid to late 1970s, that Zienia enjoyed one of her greatest professional successes when she garnered the role of Sandra Benes in the hit syndicated British science fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975). The series ran for two seasons of 48 episodes and gave her international exposure. In recent years, Zienia has roles in several films, made numerous television guest appearances, and has starred in live theatrical presentations in the UK, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Laundry, and "Present Continuous".Ping Cho
(Marco Polo) - Actor
- Soundtrack
Edward Brayshaw was born on 18 October 1933 in Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Three Musketeers (1966), The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (1967) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on 28 December 1990 in London, England, UK.Leon Colbert
(The Reign of Terror)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
The son of a Greek immigrant father (merchant) and an English mother, George Coulouris was educated at England's Manchester Grammar School. As an actor he was quite adept at playing villains, particularly wealthy businessmen, but he was just as suitable at playing nobler roles. A member of Orson Welles' famed Mercury Theater players, he appeared in such films as Citizen Kane (1941), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Papillon (1973) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The film that established him as an interesting and reliable heavy, with his massive shoulders and hooded eyes, was Watch on the Rhine (1943).
Coulouris studied with Elsie Fogerty at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. His London stage debut came in 1925 with "Henry V" at the Old Vic. He was soon playing the Yank at the first British staging of Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape". By 1929 he had reached Broadway, via a modern dress version of "Measure for Measure". His role as Tallant in "The Late Christopher Bean" took him to Hollywood in 1933 for MGM's film of the play. The next milestone in his burgeoning career occurred when he was playing in "Ten Million Ghosts" and met Orson Welles. They got on well and Coulouris joined Welles' Mercury Theatre, playing Mark Antony in the famous modern dress production of "Julius Caesar" (1937). When Welles went to Hollywood to make "Citizen Kane", Coulouris climbed into movie history in the part of Walter Parks Thatcher, the Kane family's crotchety lawyer and business manager. By that time his future as a cinema actor was assured and he went on to play character parts in a long string of Hollywood productions throughout the 1940s. At the end of the 1940s Coulouris returned to England, joining the Bristol Old Vic where he was notable as Tartuffe, transferring to London. In the '50s and '60s he remained a stalwart stage actor in spite of his movie reputation. He liked nothing better than to grapple with Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg, Molière or William Shakespeare. During these years he tackled Dr. Stockman in Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People", Patrick Flynn in Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars", the father in Jean-Paul Sartre's "Altona", Edgar in Strindberg's "The Dance of Death" and Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". All of these are parts to swell a scene and Coulouris had the flourish to fill them, sometimes to overflowing, always compellingly. In Britain his film parts tended towards the mundane, though he rose to the occasion as the native Babalatchi in Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands (1951) and seized rare chances to play comedy in Doctor in the House (1954), Doctor at Sea (1955) and the Frankie Howerd vehicle The Runaway Bus (1954). Towards the end of his life he tried his hand at writing and produced some charming memoirs describing his early life in Manchester and his early stage experiences. A vivid excerpt was published in the Guardian newspaper in February 1986 and the memoirs are available in full on the official website maintained by his son.Arbitan
(The Keys of Marinus)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Tony Wall was an actor and producer, known for The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965), Doctor Who (1963) and Softly Softly (1966). He died on 29 August 2014 in the UK.Napoleon
(The Reign of Terror)- Alethea Charlton was born on 9 August 1931 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Woman in White (1966) and Sam (1973). She died on 6 May 1976 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.Hur
(An Unearthly Child) - After completing acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Drama School, blonde Ilona Rodgers began her career on stage in her native Yorkshire and at the Theatre Royal in Bath. She made her screen debut on British television in 1963 and came to early prominence with the pivotal role of Mary Graham, the sweetheart of young Martin Chuzzlewit (1964) in a BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. Doctor Who (1963) producer Verity Lambert then picked her for the part of space explorer Carol Richmond for 'The Sensorites', followed by guest spots on The Avengers (1961) and The Saint (1962). She had a brief sojourn in America in the late 60s, culminating in a lead role opposite Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford in the middling action comedy Salt and Pepper (1968).
Upon her return to Britain, Rodgers appeared in Black Peter, an episode (now believed to be lost) of Sherlock Holmes (1964), starring Peter Cushing. After emigrating in 1973, she worked and resided at various times on both sides of the Tasman Sea. In New Zealand, she acted on stage with the Auckland Mercury Theatre and on screen in the period drama Hunter's Gold (1977), set during the 1860 gold rush. Her best known role came more than a decade later, as the wealthy, scheming editor of an Auckland high fashion magazine in Gloss (1987) (the series has been described as 'glitter soap', or as New Zealand's answer to Dynasty (1981)).
More recently, she was seen in a New Zealand revamping of Black Beauty and in the crime drama series Dirty Laundry (2016). In Australia, Rodgers has featured in the miniseries Sara Dane (1982) (for which she was awarded a Logie as Best Supporting Actress) and in Anzacs (1985), had a recurring role as one of the inmates in Prisoner (1979) (a fraudulent clairvoyant) and was a regular on the Aussie soap Sons and Daughters (1982). She has also portrayed two royals in the U.S. produced Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), which was filmed in New Zealand.Carol
(The Sensorites) - Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Robin Phillips was born on 28 February 1942 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Broome Stages (1966), Doctor Who (1963) and The Forsyte Saga (1967). He died on 25 July 2015 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.Altos
(The Keys of Marinus)- Katherine Schofield was born on 16 March 1939 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Lifeforce (1985), The Deep Concern (1979) and Doctor Who (1963). She died on 6 August 2002 in Glamorgan, Wales, UK.Sabetha
(The Keys of Marinus)