Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untimely death at the age of 55 in a car accident whilst filming the Franco/German TV production La Cloche tibétaine in Turkey. He had married twice, firstly to Olga Anthonisz and then, following his divorce. to Kismet Shahani who survived him.
The Battle of the River Plate
as Captain Varela, Uruguayan NavyIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...
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Khartoum
as Sheikh Abdul RahimEnglish General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by...
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In Search of the Castaways
as Patagonian prisonerTwo teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel...
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The Running Man
as Spanish DoctorAn Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own...
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The Assassination Bureau
as Bureau Member (uncredited)In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an...
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The Terror of the Tongs
as Tang HaoIn 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city,...
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The Road to Hong Kong
as JinnahWhen Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a...
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Bhowani Junction
as Train DriverAnglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal...
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The Mummy's Shroud
as HasmidArchaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be...
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You Can't Win 'Em All
as Capt. Enver (uncredited) (voice)During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their...
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Antony and Cleopatra
as SoothsayerAdaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an...
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Storm Over the Nile
as Native SpyIn 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes,...
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The Mind Benders
as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois (uncredited)A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills...
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First Man into Space
as Mexican Consul - Ramon de GuerreraThe first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving...
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Beautiful Stranger
as Police OfficerAn ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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The Stranglers of Bombay
as Bundar (uncredited)In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their...
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The Captain's Paradise
as Kalikan PolicemanMediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very...
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
as The MasterThe Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the...
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Hot Enough for June
as JosefA young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an...
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space
as The MasterWhen the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor...
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Sea Fury
as SalgadoThe captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
as The MasterProfessor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of...
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Manuela
as StrangerJames Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp...
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The Sandwich Man
as Abdul - Carpet SellerA man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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The Singer Not the Song
as Pedro de CortinezA Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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Third Party Risk
as Detective GonzalesVacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way...
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
as The MasterIn the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary...
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Doctor Who: The Dæmons
as The MasterOn the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the...
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Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who
as The Master (archive footage)A short piece involving the Third Doctor, drawn and animated entirely in the anime style of the...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
as Officer of the Holy BrotherhoodA self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking...
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Blood Orange
as MarloweDischarged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with...
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Man in the Shadow
as Alberto (uncredited)The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
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Sands of the Desert
as Abu NlalIn this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it...
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The Broken Horseshoe
as Felix GalegosWhen a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
as The MasterA group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in...
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Mark of the Phoenix
as DevronA jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal...
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Doctor Who: The Time Monster
as The MasterThe Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in...
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The Last Appointment!
as EstobanTwo jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of...
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Underground
as XavierAn American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
as The MasterThe Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The...
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
as CommissarioFrom the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter...
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Doctor Who
as MasterThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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Doctor Who
as The MasterThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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The Avengers
as KreerThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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The Avengers
as VascoThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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The Saint
as Capt. RodriguezSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Saint
as Hotel ManagerSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Champions
as YussefThe Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series...
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The Persuaders!
as EstobanAn English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
as AmbassadorThe legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...
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Z-Cars
as uncreditedZ-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed...
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The Adventures of William Tell
as uncreditedThe Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on...
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Maigret
as PepitoBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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The Buccaneers
as Capt. MendozaThe adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make...
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The Buccaneers
as Don Ferdinand EstebanThe adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make...
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Man in a Suitcase
as uncreditedAccused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...
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Jason King
as uncreditedJason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Officer of the Holy BrotherhoodPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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The Human Jungle
as WirralThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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Sir Francis Drake
as MendozaSir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...
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Sir Francis Drake
as The GovernorSir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...
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Sir Francis Drake
as Spanish AmbassadorSir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as SilvaAdaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Sherlock Holmes
as MoserSherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television...
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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
as TapiroRandall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial...
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Sunday Night Theatre
as Mark SmeatonSunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by...
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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as AndreThe second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero,...
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Quatermass II
as Hugh ConradThe serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being...
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The Zoo Gang
as uncreditedSix resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II....
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