John Lee (31 March 1928 – 21 December 2000) was an Australian actor with an extensive career in film and television in Australia as well as the United Kingdom and the United States.
He is remembered for his roles on television, including Andrew Reynolds in ''
Prisoner
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'', Inspector Ian Timms in ''
Cop Shop
''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes.
Synopsis
The show revolved arou ...
'',
Len Mangel in ''
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera that has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and ...
'' and Philip Stewart in ''
Return to Eden''.
He also worked in the United Kingdom throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in series such as ''
The Avengers'', ''
The Troubleshooters'', ''
Doomwatch
''Doomwatch'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist ( ...
'', ''
Marked Personal'', ''
Warship
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'', ''
Survivors
Survivor(s) may refer to:
* one who survives
Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities
* Survivors, characters in the 1997 KKnD series#Armies, ''KKnD'' video-game series
* ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Foundation'', a fictional ...
'' and ''
Wilde Alliance''. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...
'' serial ''
The Daleks
''The Daleks'' (also known as ''The Mutants'' and ''The Dead Planet'' is the second serial in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to ...
,'' which was shown in colour on 23 November 2023 on BBC4.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1928 births
2000 deaths
Australian male film actors
Australian male soap opera actors
People from Launceston, Tasmania
20th-century Australian male actors
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