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Trevor Gordon Martin (17 November 1929 – 5 October 2017) was a British stage and film actor known for playing popular British characters.


Early life and education

Martin's parents were from Dundee; he was raised in
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, and after military service trained at the
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, where he won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1953, as a result of which he began his career with the
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Radio Drama Company.


Career


Theatre

Martin was perhaps best known for playing the Doctor on stage at the
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,
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in '' Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday'' based on the popular television series '' Doctor Who''. In the 1974 play he essayed the role of an alternate
Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Tom Baker. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the ...
, a role he reprised in a 2008 audio adaptation of the play from Big Finish Productions.


Television and film

Previously Martin appeared in '' Doctor Who'' as a
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in the 1969 serial ''
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'' opposite
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Patrick Troughton Patrick George Troughton (; 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor who was classically trained for the stage but became known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction ...
and later guested in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play ''
The Paradise of Death ''The Paradise of Death'' is a 5-part BBC radio drama, based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', and starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. Production and broadcast history This was the second radio seria ...
'' alongside
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Jon Pertwee and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama '' Flip-Flop'' alongside
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Sylvester McCoy. Television credits are many ranging from the 1960s onwards and include ''Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series), Sherlock Holmes'', ''Jackanory'', ''Van der Valk'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Special Branch (TV series), Special Branch'', ''The Onedin Line'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Inspector Morse (TV series), Inspector Morse'' and ''The Bill''. He also appeared as Mr Giddings in an episode of ''Call the Midwife''. Films include ''Othello (1965 British film), Othello'' (1965), ''Absolution (1978 film), Absolution'' (1978), ''Krull (film), Krull'' (1983), ''The House of Mirth'' (2000), and ''Babel (film), Babel'' (2006).


Personal life and death

Martin was married twice. He first married Janet Moreton, they later divorced. He then married Scottish actress Hermione Gregory. He had four children from his first marriage; his son Sandy Martin (politician), Sandy Martin has been an MP. He died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 87, while on holiday in Bulgaria.


References


External links

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An interview with Trevor Martin from Sonic Screwdriver magazine
1929 births 2017 deaths 20th-century British male actors 21st-century British male actors British male stage actors British male television actors British male film actors Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Male actors from Edinburgh {{DoctorWho-stub