Patrick Troughton

Born: 1920-03-25

Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.


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The Omen

as Father Brennan
Released: 1976-06-25

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien...

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The Gorgon

as Inspector Kanof
Released: 1964-10-18

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the...

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Jason and the Argonauts

as Phineas
Released: 1963-06-19

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage...

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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
Released: 2017-12-25

As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to...

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Scars of Dracula

as Klove
Released: 1970-11-08

The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg...

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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
Released: 2013-11-23

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot...

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Treasure Island

as Roach
Released: 1950-07-19

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr....

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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

as Bodysnatcher
Released: 1974-04-01

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its...

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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

as Melanthius
Released: 1977-07-15

Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his...

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Hamlet

as Player King
Released: 1948-12-10

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s...

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The Red Shoes

as BBC Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: 1948-09-06

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance...

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as Man on Telescreen (uncredited)
Released: 1956-03-06

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by...

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See!
as Tyrell
Released: 1955-12-13

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback...

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The Phantom of the Opera

as The Rat Catcher
Released: 1962-06-25

A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is...

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The Black Torment

as Regis
Released: 1964-10-19

A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly...

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The Black Knight

as King Mark
Released: 1954-08-26

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win...

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The Moonraker

as Captain Wilcox
Released: 1958-08-02

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's...

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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2001-02-20

Video footage telling the story of the biggest Doctor Who (1963) convention ever in the UK,...

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The Viking Queen

as Tristram
Released: 1967-03-25

Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a...

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

as The Doctor (2)
Released: 1983-11-25

Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in...

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Waterfront

as Sam (uncredited)
Released: 1950-07-26

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her...

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Chance of a Lifetime

as Kettle
Released: 1950-04-24

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through,...

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The Franchise Affair

as Bill Brough
Released: 1951-02-19

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

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Doctor Who: Earthshock

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
Released: 1982-03-16

The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th...

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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

as Dr. Who/Salamander
Released: 1968-01-27

On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks...

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Escape

as Jim
Released: 1948-03-01

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the...

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

as The Doctor (Voice)
Released: 2016-11-05

Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth...

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A Hitch in Time

as Professor Wagstaff
Released: 1978-05-05

Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.

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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-03-09

The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the...

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Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-09-23

Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last...

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Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-10-12

To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It...

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Cardboard Cavalier

as Executed Man (uncredited)
Released: 1949-03-31

Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid...

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as Clement Attlee
Released: 1978-11-06

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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Doctor Who: The Moonbase

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-03-04

The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a...

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White Corridors

as Sailor
Released: 1951-01-12

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the...

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Doctor Who: The Krotons

as The Doctor
Released: 1969-01-18

The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of...

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Nurse Will Make It Better

as Lyall
Released: 1975-01-11

A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to...

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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2021-08-16

Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and...

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Doctor Who: The Invasion

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-12-21

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and become embroiled in the schemes of Tobias Vaughn....

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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

as The Doctor
Released: 1969-04-12

The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by...

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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

as The Doctor
Released: 1985-03-02

Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor...

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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-05-13

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a...

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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-06-01

The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in...

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R.U.R.

as Radius, a robot
Released: 1948-03-04

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization...

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2021-09-26

The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will...

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Doctor Who: The War Games

as The Doctor
Released: 1969-06-21

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the...

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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-04-20

When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and...

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

as Dr. Who
Released: 1966-11-05

Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth...

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Doctor Who: The Highlanders

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-01-07

The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor...

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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2023-11-13

The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed...

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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

as The Doctor
Released: 1973-01-20

Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure...

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-07-01

The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will...

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And Did Those Feet ?

as Lord Fountain
Released: 1965-06-02

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce...

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Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-09-05

A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967).

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P.Q. 17

as Commodore Londonderry
Released: 1981-12-15

"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't...

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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

as (archival footage)
Released: 2008-03-03

Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth...

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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-04-01

When the Second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big...

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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

as uncredited
Released: 2015-10-01

In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s...

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

as The Doctor (2) (uncredited)
Released: 1966-10-29

The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986....

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No Defence

as Judge Barnes-Ritchie
Released: 1980-02-14

Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...

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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2019-03-25

The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s...

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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-11-04

Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and...

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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2022-09-05

The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many...

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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-02-04

The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and...

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Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

as The Doctor
Released: 1967-12-16

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where...

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John Diamond

as Joseph K'Nee
Released: 1981-12-29

William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he...

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Doctor Who: The Dominators

as The Doctor
Released: 1968-09-07

When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet...

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Reluctant Chickens

as Malcolm
Released: 1983-04-12

Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children...

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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

as The Doctor (voice)
Released: 2020-03-16

The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble...

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Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
Released: 2023-11-01

As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back...

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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

as The Doctor
Released: 1969-03-01

The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor,...

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Love Letters on Blue Paper

as Victor Marsden
Released: 1976-03-02

Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just...

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The Evil of the Daleks: Commentary

as The Doctor
Released: 2004-11-01

Commentary of episode 2 of Evil of the Daleks by Deborah Watling

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Patrick Troughton in America

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-05

This video details the legendary Patrick Troughton's convention appearances in America using...

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The Sinking of the HMS Victoria

as Rear Admiral Markham
Released: 1977-10-12

Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to...

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The Pigman's Protege

as William Pierce
Released: 1982-03-05

In 1919 the carnage of the First World War has left the country desperately short of young men....

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Doctor Who

as The Doctor (archive footage)
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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The Saint

as Insp. Gambetti
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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Minder

as Joe Mancini
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Doctor Who

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Doctor Who

as The Doctor
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Inspector Morse

as George Jackson
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Crown Court

as Joseph Molloy
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Play for Today

as Victor Marsden
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Judge Barnes-Ritchie
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Malcolm
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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The Sweeney

as Reg Crofts
First aired: 1975-01-02

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...

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Space: 1999

as Archon
First aired: 1975-09-04

The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon...

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Z-Cars

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-01-02

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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Dr. Finlay's Casebook

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-08-16

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971....

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Constable
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir William Fitzwalter
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Seneschal
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Traveller
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Raoul
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Boland
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Fulke Devereaux
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Persuaders!

as Count Marceau
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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All Creatures Great and Small

as Roddy
First aired: 1978-01-08

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...

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The Goodies

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-11-08

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and...

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The Goodies

as Dr. Petal
First aired: 1970-11-08

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and...

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Softly, Softly

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-05

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1...

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Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-01

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...

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The Wednesday Play

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-30

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...

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Thriller

as Lyall
First aired: 1973-04-14

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...

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The Protectors

as Bela Karoleon
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It...

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Interpol Calling

as Sukru
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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Doomwatch

as Lyon McArthur
First aired: 1970-02-09

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on...

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Van der Valk

as Father Bosch
First aired: 1972-09-13

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...

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Danger Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-11

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...

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The Third Man

as Luigi Carvossa
First aired: 1959-10-02

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Warship

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-06-07

Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977....

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The Main Chance

as Frederick Owen
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-02-20

The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very...

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Jason King

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-15

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...

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Paul Temple

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-11-23

Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple,...

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Tales of the Tardis

as The Doctor
First aired: 2023-11-01

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage...

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Survivors

as John Millen
First aired: 1975-04-16

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and...

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Super Gran

as Great Sporran of the Isles
First aired: 1985-01-20

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...

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The Adventures of William Tell

as Hanzler
First aired: 1958-09-15

The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on...

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Duke of Norfolk
First aired: 1970-01-01

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization...

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Sherlock Holmes

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-05-17

Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television...

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes (as Pat Troughton)
First aired: 1955-09-28

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero,...

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
First aired: 1955-09-28

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero,...

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Colditz

as Padre
First aired: 1972-10-19

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened...

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Sir Francis Drake

as Gazio
First aired: 1961-11-12

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...

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The Sentimental Agent

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-28

The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was...

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The Two of Us

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-10-31

The Two of Us is an ITV comedy series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley as Ashley and...

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

as Clement Atlee
First aired: 1978-11-08

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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Sunday Night Theatre

as Cardinal Wolsey
First aired: 1950-01-01

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by...

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Knights of God

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-06

Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and...

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Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

as Self
First aired: 2013-01-27

As the Doctor's newest companion, Clara Oswald, steps into the TARDIS, take a look back at...

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The Box of Delights

as Cole Hawlings
First aired: 1984-11-21

Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young...

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Doctor Who: Lost in Time

as The Doctor
First aired: 1965-03-27

A digitally restored collection of rare 1960s Doctor Who episodes, from stories which no longer...

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The Devil's Crown

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-04-30

The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings...

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Whoops Baghdad

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-01-25

Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme first broadcast from 25 January to 1 March...

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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

as The Doctor (voice)
First aired: 2021-03-15

Patrick Troughton's Doctor and his companions Victoria and Jamie investigate strange happenings...

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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-11-05

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady...

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The Feathered Serpent

as Nasca
First aired: 1976-06-21

The Feathered Serpent is a British children's television series. Set in Aztec Mexico and...

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Lorna Doone

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-05

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Doctor Who Then & Now

as Doctor Who
First aired: 1987-01-01

Television special about the origins of Doctor Who, featuring interviews with directors,...

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