Tim Turner (7 September 1924 – 1987) was an

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actor who performed during the 1950s and 1960s.

Life and career

He was born John Freeman Turner in

Bexley Bexley is an area of south-eastern Greater London, England and part of the London Borough of Bexley. It is sometimes known as Bexley Village or Old Bexley to differentiate the area from the wider borough. It is located east-southeast of Char ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. Before becoming a film and television actor, Turner was a popular leading young man in the theatre. One of his roles was as the love interest of

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's Sadie Thompson in the 1949 tour of ''Rain'', adapted from the short story by

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. Uncredited, Turner provided the voice of the title character in the TV series ''

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'' (1958–59), a loose adaptation of the 1897 novel by H.G. Wells. He appeared in person in one episode as a foreign-accented villain. Later, Turner dubbed the voice of actor

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for the 1963 film '' Jason and the Argonauts''. Between 1959 and 1963, Turner narrated most of the '' Look at Life'' series of short documentary films produced by the

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. He was married to actress

Patricia Plunkett Patricia Ruth Plunkett (17 December 1926 – 13 October 1974) was an English actress, born to an Australian WW1 soldier, Captain Gunning Francis Plunkett, and Alice Park. Born in Streatham, London, she trained at RADA and had an early stage hit ...

from 1951 until her death in 1974.Lorraine Greenslad
"Patricia Plunkett - My Sister"
''Herne Hill Society Newsletter'', No. 102, Spring 2008, p. 12–13. He later married in Gibraltar to Mercia Dunkley. Turner died in Spain in 1987.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Tim 1924 births 1987 deaths 20th-century English male actors Male actors from Kent Deaths in Spain English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors English male voice actors People from Bexley Date of death missing Place of death missing English expatriates in Spain