The best guest actors on season 16 of "Doctor Who"
by JohnSlash | created - 03 Nov 2014 | updated - 23 Nov 2014 | PublicIn order from greatest to least.
1. Bruce Purchase
Actor | The Quatermass Conclusion
Bearded, heavy-set New Zealand-born character actor with a booming voice, who went to England to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After repertory experience, he had notable stage appearances with the National Theatre Company (of which he was a founder member) and the Mermaid Theatre, ...
The Pirate Captain
(The Pirate Planet)
2. Rosalind Lloyd
Actress | Wives and Daughters
Rosalind Lloyd was born on March 25, 1953 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wives and Daughters (1971), Doctor Who (1963) and A Question of Guilt (1980).
Nurse/Queen Xanxia
(The Pirate Planet)
3. Peter Jeffrey
Actor | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Immensely talented and instantly recognizable, Peter Jeffrey was one of a great generation of British actors who were comfortable in everything from classical theatre to television comedy. He was born in Bristol, England in 1929 and went on to be educated at Harrow school. He studied at Pembroke ...
Count Grendel
(The Androids of Tara)
4. Philip Madoc
Actor | The Avengers
Philip Madoc was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and attended Twyn School. He became interested in acting when he was a teenager. He studied at the University of Vienna and pursued a theatrical career by attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. During the 1960s, he became a familiar face on ...
Fenner
(The Power of Kroll)
5. Iain Cuthbertson
Actor | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
Iain Cuthbertson was born on January 4, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Doctor Who (1963) and Scotch on the Rocks (1973). He was married to Janet Mary Smith and Anne Kristen. He died on September 4, 2009 in Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.
Garron
(The Ribos Operation)
6. Neville Jason
Actor | From Russia with Love
Neville Jason was born on May 29, 1934 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for From Russia with Love (1963), The Message (1976) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on October 16, 2015 in Camden, London, England, UK.
Prince Reynart
(The Androids of Tara)
7. Timothy Bateson
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Prolific British character actor, adept at eccentric or whimsical impersonations, particularly of Dickensian characters. The son of law society president Sir Dingwall Bateson, he won a scholarship to Wadham College, where he trained for acting with the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Straight ...
Binro
(The Ribos Operation)
8. Bob Keegan
Actor | Straw Dogs
Bob Keegan was born on December 3, 1924 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Straw Dogs (1971), A Kind of Loving (1982) and The Children of the New Forest (1977). He died on January 16, 1988 in London, England, UK.
Sholakh
(The Ribos Operation)
9. Lalla Ward
Actress | Doctor Who: Shada
Lalla Ward born Sarah Ward, daughter of Lord Bangor - Edward Ward - and his writer wife, Marjorie Banks. She always wanted to act, paint and draw, and so joined the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1967. When she left in 1970, it was straight into a part in the Hammer film Vampire Circus (1972)...
Princess Astra
(The Armageddon Factor)
10. Andrew Robertson
Actor | Oil Strike North
Andrew Robertson was born in 1941 in Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Oil Strike North (1975), Colin's Sandwich (1988) and The Master of Ballantrae (1962).
Mr Fibuli
(The Pirate Planet)
11. Paul Seed
Director | House of Cards
Paul Seed is a British television director and former actor.
Born in Bideford in Devon, Seed began his career as an actor and appeared in numerous television series including Z-Cars, Softly Softly: Taskforce, Survivors, Doctor Who, Secret Army, Coronation Street (1960), Crown Court and Tales of the ...
Graff Vynda-K
(The Ribos Operation)
12. Simon Lack
Actor | The Proud Valley
Simon Lack was born on December 19, 1915 in Cleland, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Tunnel (1940), Enemy at the Door (1978) and Just William (1940). He died on August 8, 1980 in London, England, UK.
Zadek
(The Androids of Tara)
13. Paul Lavers
Actor | The Fence
Paul Lavers was born on April 16, 1950 in Bristol, UK. He is an actor, known for The Fence (2022), Housefull 3 (2016) and Chantelle: Psychic P.D - Night Division (2018).
Farrah
(The Androids of Tara)
14. Prentis Hancock
Actor | Spy Trap
Scottish character actor Walter Prentis Hancock was raised and schooled in Glasgow. He initially studied architecture, but developed an early affinity for the stage and began acting with a local amateur company. After further studies at the Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama in ...
Shrieve Captain
(The Ribos Operation)
15. Nigel Plaskitt
Nigel Plaskitt was born on July 27, 1950 in England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Lost in Space (1998) and Labyrinth (1986).
Unstoffe
(The Ribos Operation)
16. John Woodvine
Actor | An American Werewolf in London
Born in the Simonside area of South Shields, he left the North East when he was five, but went back for holidays with his grandparents. As he grew older he had it in his mind to be an actor, but had no idea how to go about it, so did various jobs before being called up for National Service in the ...
The Marshal
(The Armageddon Factor)
17. Lois Baxter
Actress | Dickens of London
Lois Baxter was born on April 26, 1947 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dickens of London (1976), Doctor Who (1963) and Affairs of the Heart (1974). She has been married to David Savile since 1974.
Lamia
(The Androids of Tara)
18. Beatrix Lehmann
Actress | Doctor Who
Beatrix Lehmann was born on July 1, 1903 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and Crime and Punishment (1979). She died on July 31, 1979 in London, England, UK.
Professor Rumford
(The Stones of Blood)
19. Cyril Luckham
Actor | A Man for All Seasons
Cyril Luckham was born on July 25, 1907 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Guardians (1971) and The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He was married to Violet Lamb. He died on February 8, 1989 in London, England, UK.
White Guardian
(The Ribos Operation)
20. Valentine Dyall
Actor | The Haunting
He could have been described as the "British Vincent Price". This distinguished actor was probably best known for his voice work. His low, resonant and mellifluous tones were employed to chill and excite for at least half a century. His most famous radio role was as "The Man In Black", back in the ...
The Black Guardian
(The Armageddon Factor)
21. Glyn Owen
Actor | Attack on the Iron Coast
Glyn Owen was born on March 6, 1928 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Attack on the Iron Coast (1968), The Trollenberg Terror (1956) and Blake's 7 (1978). He was married to Carrie Owen. He died on September 10, 2004 in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.
Rohm-Dutt
(The Power of Kroll)
22. John Abineri
Actor | The Last of the Mohicans
While doing his national service he ran three theatres helping to rehabilitate servicemen then joined The Old Vic Theatre School for acting training and after completion accepted an invitation from Tyrone Guthrie to join the theatre's company headed by Donald Wolfit. Spending a season there he ...
Ranquin
(The Power of Kroll)
23. David Warwick
Actor | Doctor Who
David Warwick is known for Doctor Who (1963), Smoking Shores and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976).
Kimus
(The Pirate Planet)
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