Hamish Wilson (13 December 1942 – 26 March 2020) was a Scottish actor from

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who was best known for briefly taking over the role of

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for part of two episodes in the 1968 ''

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'' serial ''

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'' when series regular

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was ill with

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and unable to attend the recording. The change of actor was written in as part of the story when Jamie is turned into a cardboard cut-out and has his face removed by the Master of the Land of Fiction. The

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's first attempt to reconstruct his face is unsuccessful. Eventually, Jamie's real face is restored when Hines recovered. Wilson trained as an actor at the

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A tribute to my good friend Hamish Wilson.
/ref> and his early work includes an appearance on the first series of

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(in the only surviving episode of that series, 1966's "A Drop O' The Real Stuff"). At the time of his ''Doctor Who'' appearance, he was working in London for a furniture removal firm. His other work includes numerous TV guest appearances in programmes such as '' Softly, Softly'' and '' Monarch of the Glen'', and involvement in the documentary and the audio commentary on the 2005 DVD release of "

". Wilson also acted in ''

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'' (1961) and ''TimeLock'' (2013). Starting in the 1970s, Wilson became a continuity announcer with STV in Glasgow, he then became a radio producer, working with

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and

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before moving to the BBC's Scottish radio drama unit in Edinburgh in 1989, where he made programmes for BBC Radio Scotland as well as

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and

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. He received a fellowship from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1996. He was also a staff member at the

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Death

Wilson died from

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in hospital near his home in Bladnoch, near Wigtown, Dumfriesshire on 26 March 2020, at age 77, during the

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. He is survived by his wife Diana and daughters Emma, Abigail and Alice.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Hamish 1942 births 2020 deaths Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland Male actors from Glasgow Scottish male television actors Scottish radio producers 20th-century Scottish male actors 21st-century Scottish male actors