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

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; he was raised in Enfield, and after military service trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1953, as a result of which he began his career with the BBC Radio Drama Company.

Career

Theatre

Martin was perhaps best known for playing the Doctor on stage at the Adelphi Theatre, London in ''

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'' based on the popular television series ''

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''. In the 1974 play he essayed the role of an alternate Fourth Doctor, a role he reprised in a 2008 audio adaptation of the play from

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Television and film

Previously Martin appeared in ''

'' as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial '' The War Games'' opposite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and later guested in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play ''

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'' alongside Third Doctor

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and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama '' Flip-Flop'' alongside Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy. Television credits are many ranging from the 1960s onwards and include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Van der Valk'', '' Z-Cars'', ''

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'', '' The Onedin Line'', ''

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'', '' Inspector Morse'' and '' The Bill''. He also appeared as Mr Giddings in an episode of '' Call the Midwife''. Films include ''

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'' (1965), '' Absolution'' (1978), ''

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'' (1983), '' The House of Mirth'' (2000), and ''

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'' (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 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