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John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (; 7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer, cabaret performer and TV presenter. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the
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and the Naval Intelligence Division during the
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. In his early career, he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the
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and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James.Cult leader's mission to return to future
'' The Herald''. 15 May 1989. Retrieved 3 July 2014. As an actor, Pertwee appeared in many comedy roles, including four films in the ''
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'' series, and he became widely known for spending 18 years (1959–1977) playing
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Pertwee (and three other roles) in the sitcom ''
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'' on
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. On television, Pertwee starred as the third incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series '' Doctor Who'' (1970–1974), hosted the game show '' Whodunnit?'' (1974–1978), and played the title character in ''
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'' (1979–1981 and 1987–1989). Towards the end of his life he maintained a close association with ''Doctor Who'' by appearing at many fan conventions related to the series and giving interviews. He also performed a
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called ''Who Is Jon Pertwee?''


Biography


Early life and education

Born in
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, and having
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ancestry (his surname was an Anglicisation of "Perthuis"; the origins of his surname being "de Perthuis de Laillevault", the family being Counts descended from
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), Jon was the son of screenwriter and actor
Roland Pertwee Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of ''Doctor Who'' actor Jon Pertwee and playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was al ...
and distant cousin of actor
Bill Pertwee William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, (21 July 1926 – 27 May 2013) was a British comedy actor. He played the role of Chief ARP Warden Hodges in the sitcom '' Dad's Army''. Early life Pertwee was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 21 July 192 ...
. Pertwee's mother, Avice Scholtz, separated from his father Roland when Pertwee was young. His father remarried, and his mother found a new partner, Louis Auguste De La Garde, with whom Pertwee did not build a relationship; she died in 1951, leaving Pertwee's older brother Michael as her executor. Avice's sister Daphne married Captain Philip Cecil Clowes and became the mother of Pertwee's cousin, the writer St John Legh Clowes (1907–1951). Actor Henry Ainley, a close friend of his father, was his godfather. Coincidentally, Ainley's son
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appeared as the Master – a renegade Time Lord who was The Doctor's greatest enemy – alongside Pertwee in the ''Doctor Who'' anniversary story ''
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'' (1983). Pertwee was educated at
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, an independent school in Rowledge, near Farnham in Surrey, at
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in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled. After school, he applied to the Central School of Speech & Drama, but was denied admittance because of his lisp. He was admitted to the
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(RADA), graduating in 1939. He was accused of writing graffiti about the tutors on the lavatory walls.


Early career

While still at school, Pertwee worked as a circus performer riding the Wall of Death on a motorcycle with a toothless lion in the sidecar. He then worked in repertory theatre before being contracted with the
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at 18 as an actor. During the
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, Pertwee spent six years in the
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. He was a crew member of and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk by the German battleship ''Bismarck'', losing all but three men in May 1941. Later, he was attached to the highly-secretive Naval Intelligence Division, working alongside future
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author Ian Fleming, and reporting directly to Prime Minister
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and Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee. In an interview conducted in 1994 and published in 2013, he said, "I did all sorts. Teaching commandos how to use escapology equipment, compasses in brass buttons, secret maps in white cotton handkerchiefs, pipes you could smoke that also fired a .22 bullet. All sorts of incredible things." During his time in the Navy, Pertwee woke up one morning after a drunken night out while in port to find a tattoo of a cobra on his right arm. After the war, he began to work as a comedy actor on radio, becoming known for being able to do a variety of comedic voices and accents. He did voice work in ''Waterlogged Spa'', alongside
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, and ''Puffney Post Office'' in which he played a hapless old postman with the catch-phrase "It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you tears them up." On 15 November 1948, at the Wood Green Empire, he was billed as "The Most Versatile Voice in Radio – Jon ('Tear 'em Up') Pertwee from the Radio Shows ''Merry-go-Round'' and ''Up the Pole''". From 1959 to 1977, he performed the role of the conniving
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Pertwee in ''
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'' on
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. The fictional ship in the series HMS ''Troutbridge'' almost shared its name with the real HMS '' Troubridge'' whose commanding officer was a relative of Pertwee's who wrote to the BBC to provide details of comic incidents on the ship which were then used in '' The Navy Lark's'' scripts. After
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left the series Pertwee took on various additional roles in the series. These included a villainous character called the Master, whose voice Pertwee said was an impression of
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. Pertwee did not appear in the 1959 film version of ''The Navy Lark''. In his 1996 memoir he attributed this to producer
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refusing to employ his co-star
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on the grounds that "he was gay", a decision Pertwee made clear that he thought "was ridiculous". Shortly after voicing his support of Price he found out he had been dropped from the film's cast and replaced by
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. He was known as a Danny Kaye look-alike, and his impersonation of Kaye can be seen in the film ''
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'' (1949). He played Charlie Sterling in '' Will Any Gentleman...?'' (1953). Future '' Doctor Who'' actor
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was also in the film; he played Inspector Martin. On stage, he played the part of Lycus in the 1963 London production of '' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' with
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and appeared in the smaller role of Crassus in the 1966
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. He appeared as Sidney Tait in the comedy film ''
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'' (1963). In 1966, Pertwee starred alongside
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in the original West End production of the long-running comedy ''
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'' and in this period appeared in several ''Carry On'' films: ''
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'' (1964), as the soothsayer; ''
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'' (1965) as Sheriff Earp; and ''
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'' (1966) as Dr. Fettle. (''
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'', with Pertwee in his fourth ''Carry On'' role, this time as the Duke of Costa Brava, was released in 1992). In 1967, he was chosen by ''
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'' producer David Croft for the role of Captain George Mainwaring, but Pertwee turned it down – possibly because he preferred to extend his role on Broadway in ''There's a Girl in My Soup''. In a lost interview from 1986, which was later rediscovered and published in 2008, he did not want his work on the ''Carry On'' films to overshadow his reputation as a serious actor. His television career had started off with small parts in children's shows featuring
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's Mr Pastry character. Later he made an appearance in '' The Avengers'' episode " From Venus With Love" (1967) as Brigadier Whitehead, and later, he guest-starred as a vicar in '' The Goodies''' episode " Wacky Wales" (1975).


''Doctor Who''

In 1969, shortly before leaving the series, producer
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cast Pertwee as the
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in '' Doctor Who''. Pertwee had asked his agent to apply for the role for him and was surprised to find he was already on the shortlist. He was the second choice for the role;
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was the first but was unavailable. In a departure from the Doctor's first two incarnations, Pertwee's era was influenced by the
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. He played the character as an active crusader with a penchant for action and fancy clothes, while the character was exiled to Earth by the
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s for much of his tenure and serving as the scientific adviser to
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and
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. He played the Doctor for five seasons from early 1970 to mid-1974, a longer stint than either of his predecessors in the role, although he ultimately appeared in fewer episodes than William Hartnell as the BBC had reduced the production schedule. Pertwee credited his performance as the Doctor with helping him work out exactly who he really was when he was not resorting to comedic disguises or voices: a dapper, technologically oriented man of action. This was because the BBC's Head of Drama,
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, had advised him to act the Doctor as himself: in effect, to "play Jon Pertwee". Pertwee's interpretation of the Doctor was described as "a man of action, supremely confident, articulate, yet also warmly reassuring." This incarnation was credited with being more action oriented and scientifically minded than early versions of the Doctor. In ''The Making of Doctor Who'', Pertwee himself said "Doctor Who is me – or I am Doctor Who. I play him straight from me." On 14 April 1971, Pertwee was the subject of
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's '' This Is Your Life''. During his tenure as the Doctor, Pertwee appeared in the Amicus horror compendium ''
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'' (1971), which was filmed in the summer of 1970 between his first and second ''Doctor Who'' seasons. Pertwee played the lead in the last segment of the film as Paul Henderson, an arrogant horror film star who meets his doom thanks to a genuine vampire cloak. In 1973 Pertwee endorsed the
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's ''Baking Your Cake and Eating It'', a recipe book written by Sarah Charles. It has been given the unofficial title of ''The Jon Pertwee Recipe Book''. In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor to resume his stage career in ''The Bedwinner'', also citing potential typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though he later said that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star
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( The Master) and the departures of co-star
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and producer
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. Also, according to
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in an interview on the DVD release of ''
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,'' Pertwee asked for a substantially increased fee for another year on the series which was turned down and he subsequently resigned from the role. Pertwee was also dealing with chronic back pain at the time, and was becoming less interested in the character of the Doctor. His last full-time appearance in the series was in the story ''
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'' in June 1974, which finished with
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replacing him in the role. Pertwee later reprised the role in the 20th anniversary story ''
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'' and the Children in Need story ''
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'', in two radio adventures and on stage in ''
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''.


''Worzel Gummidge''

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the
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murder-mystery game show '' Whodunnit?'', Pertwee took the starring role in ''
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'', based on the books written by
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. Produced by ITV franchise contractor Southern Television in the initial run, it was first transmitted on ITV from 1979. Pertwee had first been approached to play the part of Worzel Gummidge in a film to be written by
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and
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. When this project fell through Pertwee encouraged the writers to create a
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instead and via his
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pitched the idea to the
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...
who turned it down and then Thames Television who likewise passed on the project. Pertwee later admitted that he "began to lose faith in the project", until Southern Television's Lewis Rudd heard about it and enthusiastically agreed that the company would make the series. The series saw Pertwee as a
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, as well as using several comedic voices. The show was an immediate hit, with Pertwee describing it as "becoming something of a cult" after only four episodes had been broadcast. Press interest in the series was high, and it ran on the channel until 1981. Keen to continue beyond this, Pertwee campaigned for the series and it was picked up by a New Zealand network, TVNZ, in 1987. ''Worzel Gummidge Down Under'' aired for the next two years and was screened in the UK on
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. In 1995, Pertwee played the role one last time in a one-off special for ITV, which celebrated 40 years of the channel. Pertwee played the title character in ''Worzel Gummidge, the Musical'', book and lyrics by
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and
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, music by
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, which opened at London's
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in December 1981, co-starring
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and
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. Pertwee also recorded an album, ''Worzel Gummidge Sings'', as well as a Christmas single.


Other roles

Pertwee played the role of The Colonel in the
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children's film ''
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'' (1975). The following year, he voiced and appeared in the television advertisement that promoted the
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by use of the
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"SPLINK". Also in 1976, Pertwee starred with Australian singer Julie Anthony in a West End production of the musical ''
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'' (originally 1919, revived Broadway 1973), playing the camp fashion-designer Madame Lucy (originally Liam O'Dougherty). The production opened at the
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, London, and enjoyed a run of more than 900 performances: Pertwee features on the cast recording album, produced by
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for EMI Records (EMC3139). He also voiced the character of " Spotty" in the cartoon series ''
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'' (1983–86) and, in 1985, starred in ''Do You Know The Milkyway?'', a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's stage play in which Pertwee played Dr. Neuross and another nine characters. In 1995, he also had the key voice of
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and other voice characterisations in the PC and PlayStation renditions of "
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". Also in 1995, he played General Von Kramer in the '' Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' episode "Attack of the Hawkmen". Writing shortly before his death in 1996, Pertwee stated that while he enjoyed his association with ''Doctor Who'', he had perhaps spent too long in the title role. He believed that this led to the "ridiculous situation of people turning me down for parts because, they say, I am too well known as the Doctor." He observed that after he left the show he only ever worked in a BBC drama on one occasion. This was his part of "an aging Basque arsonist and pornographer" in an episode of '' Virtual Murder'' entitled "A Torch for Silverado". He considered this to be one of "the best things I've ever done"


Later life

He returned to the role of the Doctor in 1983 for the 20th-anniversary television special ''
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'' and in the 1993 charity special ''
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'' for Children in Need. He also portrayed the Doctor in the stage play ''
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'' which toured theatres in the United Kingdom from March to June 1989. During the 1990s, he made a guest appearance in the "Lords and Ladies" episode of the
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comedy series ''
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'', playing a
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and also spoofed the role in the Radio 4 comedy ''The Skivers''. He also presented the ''Doctor Who'' video releases ''The Troughton Years'' (1991), showcasing selected surviving episodes of otherwise
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stories, and ''The Pertwee Years'' (1992), the latter a look back at his time on the show, with his three selected episodes In 1993, Pertwee was featured in the unofficial 30th anniversary VHS release entitled ''30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond''. When asked in an interview for this documentary if the show should be brought back he simply replied with "No, no", but believed if it did come back a lot more money would need to be spent on the series along with a new production team. Pertwee would continue to act in films and television as well as make appearances worldwide in support of ''Doctor Who''. Ultimately, Pertwee was successful in seeing the Third Doctor return to the airwaves with two audio productions for
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, ''
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'' and ''
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''. In April 1995, he appeared in '' Devious'', an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of ''The War Games'' and before the start of ''Spearhead from Space''. It shows an interim Doctor (between second and third), played by Tony Garner, being told he was "never meant to be the Doctor" and that the third will complete him. Pertwee's scenes in that role were among the first pieces of the video that were released (on the DVD of ''The War Games''). In the same year, he starred in a one-man show called ''Who Is Jon Pertwee?''. Pertwee's final film role was in a short film entitled ''Cloud Cuckoo'' for Scottish Screen, released on 18 June 1994. His last formal television appearance was on Cilla's '' Surprise, Surprise'', broadcast on 21 April 1996 where he appeared as the Third Doctor. At the date of his death, Pertwee was regularly being seen in the closing moments of a UK TV commercial for mobile phone operator
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: dressed in the style of his version of the Doctor. This character walked wordlessly across an alleyway in sight of a
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landmark, and entered a garage evidently containing some kind of time machine.


Personal life

Pertwee married twice. His first marriage was in 1955, to
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, whom he divorced in 1960; later that same year he married Ingeborg Rhoesa (born 1935). Together they had two children, both of whom became actors: a daughter, Dariel, in 1961, and a son,
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, in 1964. Pertwee wrote two autobiographies: ''Moon Boots and Dinner Suits'' (published in 1984), which primarily covers his life and career prior to ''Doctor Who'', and the posthumously published ''Doctor Who: I Am the Doctor – Jon Pertwee’s Final Memoir'', (, published in November 1996 by
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Ltd. under the ''Doctor Who Books'' imprint and co-written with David J. Howe), which covered his life during and after the series. In 2000, ''Jon Pertwee: The Biography'' by Bernard Bale () was published by
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, and it included a few chapters by Pertwee's widow Ingeborg.


Death and legacy

Pertwee continued on the ''Doctor Who'' convention circuit, and with his voice and television acting, until his death; he died in his sleep from a heart attack in
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on 20 May 1996, at the age of 76. He was survived by his wife Ingeborg Rhoesa, and two children,
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and Dariel Pertwee. His immediate successor in the starring role of ''Doctor Who'',
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, paid tribute, saying: "I am very sorry to hear the news. I was a great admirer of such a stylish actor." Another of his successors in the role,
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, said: "He was a man of such presence and stature. I can't believe he has gone – it is a great shock. Of all of the interpretations of the Doctors his was the most straight in terms of avoiding comedy." His body was
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at
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with a toy
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affixed to the coffin, following the instructions in his will. His death came six days after the American broadcast of the ''Doctor Who'' television film, which used in its opening credits a logo based on that from his era of the television series. The BBC broadcast of the film, on 27 May 1996, featured a dedication to Pertwee at its end.


Legacy

His last association with ''Doctor Who'' was posthumous. With the approval of his widow, Ingeborg, his voice was used as part of the plot of the Big Finish Productions' 40th Anniversary audio drama, ''
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'', appearing as messages from the Doctor's
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as it attempted to help the currently corrupted Eighth Doctor (voiced by
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). Pertwee's voice was culled from the fan-produced ''Doctor Who'' film '' Devious''. Archival footage of Pertwee has been used several times in the revived ''Doctor Who''. Footage appears in "
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" when the
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shows Jackson Lake an infostamp about himself, and in " The Eleventh Hour" when the
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rhetorically asks the Atraxi how previous alien invasion attempts were stopped. Footage of Pertwee was used in "
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" to depict his Doctor interacting with a version of
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, in " The Lodger" in a montage of bits from the Doctor's past, and in "
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" to depict the Third Doctor assisting his other incarnations in sending
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to a
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to protect it from the
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. A star was nicknamed after him in 1986. In 2016, his work was honoured with a blue plaque at the
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, which was arranged by the ''Doctor Who'' Appreciation Society.


Discography

*In 1962, Pertwee released an album entitled ''Jon Pertwee Sings Songs For Vulgar Boatmen''. *In 1966, Pertwee contributed to the children's album ''Children's Favourites'' ( Music for Pleasure, MDP 1175). Songs sung by him include "The Runaway Train", " Froggy Went A-Courtin'", "
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", "Three Little Fishes" and "I Know An Old Lady". The recordings were produced by
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, with a synopsis written on the back by Roger St. Pierre. On the front cover is the picture of a glove puppet by Carol Patmore & Rima Reed. At least one of the songs, "The Runaway Train" (b/w "The Ugly Duckling"), was released as a single on Music for Pleasure (catalogue FP 10). *In 1972, he recorded with
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, ''Wonderful Children's Songs'' on the Contour label (catalogue 2870191) *In 1972, Pertwee performed a vocal narration over the
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entitled "Who is the Doctor", on
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. *In 1976, he starred in the EMI original cast recording (EMC 3139) of the West End musical ''
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'', in which he had enjoyed a long run, playing 'Madame Lucy' at the Adelphi Theatre, London. *In 1976, he recorded a promotional flexi-disc for Heinz called "The Noodle Doodle Man", a song that accompanied a television commercial to which Pertwee contributed the vocal performance. *In 1980, he released "Worzel's Song", from the album ''Worzel Gummidge Sings''. The single reached No.33 on the UK charts in March. A second single was released in 1987 when the series was revived, but this met with less success. Also released in 1984 was a single entitled ''Jon Pertwee and Friends Sing the Beatles'' which comprised " Yesterday", featuring a semi-spoken-word performance, and "
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", in the guise of Worzel Gummidge. This record was intended to aid the Liverpool Children's Hospital. *In 1993, an audio release of the radio play ''
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'' reached No.48 in the album charts. *In 1984, he featured in the computer game audio tape of ''
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'' by
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Filmography


Film


Television


Video games


Bibliography


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As contributor

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References


External links

*
Jon Pertwee Biography – British Film Institute
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Action Who – Jon Pertwee article at Kasterborous.com


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