British Science Fiction Series

[Joey Russ 7,119]

I don't know, I think Donald Sutherland could make a good doctor despite being Canadian. Can't really say the same for the other people though...

[CoffinLodger 1,247]

22 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Death Notice for Jennifer Daniel, Welsh actress, who had roles in Adam Adamant Lives! and Doomwatch. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/217005/landen

 

Also had roles in Hammer movies The Kiss Of The Vampire and The Reptile, but it's too late for me to search for the B-Movie thread.  Was the widow of the actor Dinsdale Landen.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Daniel

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199663/

 

 

Watched The Reptile for the first time last year.Good excuse to watch it again ! Just love those old Hammer horrors 

[themaninblack 2,112]

23 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Death Notice for Jennifer Daniel, Welsh actress, who had roles in Adam Adamant Lives! and Doomwatch. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/217005/landen

 

Also had roles in Hammer movies The Kiss Of The Vampire and The Reptile, but it's too late for me to search for the B-Movie thread.  Was the widow of the actor Dinsdale Landen.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Daniel

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199663/

 

 

Really? I thought he er...swung the other way!

[Bibliogryphon 8,662]

4 hours ago, themaninblack said:

Really? I thought he er...swung the other way!

"Sir you think because we are actors we sleep with anybody"

[msc 17,762]

7 hours ago, themaninblack said:

Really? I thought he er...swung the other way!

 

Mixing him up with Alfred Lynch (the other guy from Fenric)? Who had a 40+ year relationship with James Culliford (who appeared in Frontier in Space!). Lynch wound up looking after him for 30 odd years. Of course, it used to be that in Who fandom, people mistook Culliford for Landen (ie for being Lynch's other half), because Landen played a wheelchair bound man in Fenric alongside Lynch, and both died in the same week, iirc. (Culliford died shortly before Lynch too, so it all sort of merges, I guess.)

 

Curse of Fenric was fantastic though and so was Landen, entertaining in everything, even shite like The Buccaneers. One of those actors who should have been much bigger than they were, imo.

 

Seen Adam Adamant, but don't mind his widow off of it.

[msc 17,762]

Speaking of old luvvies, what's Peter Wyngarde up to these days? Now there was a fun actor. Always reminds me of Spinal Tap's "these go to 11" in terms of OTT-ness.

 

And another thing - I was watching an episode of Taggart on one of the freeview channels the other night. One of the shite ones, but anyhow, do you know who turned up as a villain? Jill Gascoine? You can't escape the Deathlist these days.

[Bibliogryphon 8,662]

1 hour ago, msc said:

Speaking of old luvvies, what's Peter Wyngarde up to these days? Now there was a fun actor. Always reminds me of Spinal Tap's "these go to 11" in terms of OTT-ness.

 

And another thing - I was watching an episode of Taggart on one of the freeview channels the other night. One of the shite ones, but anyhow, do you know who turned up as a villain? Jill Gascoine? You can't escape the Deathlist these days.

My friend took his daughter to a con a he looked at the line up of signing sessions and said in a very loud voice Goodness me Peter Wyngarde is he still alive?

 

[Bibliogryphon 8,662]

Happy Birthday to Dudley Simpson who is 95 today.

[YoungWillz 19,078]

Trevor Martin, who played the Second Time Lord in The War Games for Doctor Who and who was the first actor to portray the Doctor onstage, has died aged 87. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/10/trevor-martin-1930-2017.html

 

Also had roles in the usual from Z Cars to Coronation Street and more...

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553163/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[YoungWillz 19,078]

Death notice for Valerie Stanton-Lewis, aged 73, from sepsis. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=valerie-stanton-lewis&pid=186992202

 

She was in The Space Pirates and Priest Of Death for Doctor Who. Other relevant appearances for this thread include Adam Adamant Lives! and The Avengers.

 

Probably better known for her appearances in Up Pompeii and with Benny Hill.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822819/

[YoungWillz 19,078]

Irish actor Patrick O'Connell died on 10 August 2017 from complications associated with lung cancer and emphysema aged 83. https://www.justgiving.com/remember/482628/Patrick-O'Connell

 

Appeared in The Dalek Invasion Of Earth for Doctor Who and another sole appearance in Adam Adamant Lives!

 

Other than that, mostly everything from The Saint, The Persuaders and Mind Your Language...

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O'Connell_(actor)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640147/

 

[msc 17,762]

3 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Irish actor Patrick O'Connell died on 10 August 2017 from complications associated with lung cancer and emphysema aged 83. https://www.justgiving.com/remember/482628/Patrick-O'Connell

 

Appeared in The Dalek Invasion Of Earth for Doctor Who and another sole appearance in Adam Adamant Lives!

 

Other than that, mostly everything from The Saint, The Persuaders and Mind Your Language...

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O'Connell_(actor)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640147/

 

The black marketeer in Dalek Invasion of Earth... before he gets killed by a terrible special effect. Retired from acting to become an artist iirc.

 

 

[msc 17,762]

On 5/3/2017 at 14:04, msc said:

Not many left who worked on the original Quatermass Experiment now. Bar the indomitable Paddy Russell, of course, who was a production assistant.

 

Via twitter reports, the wonderful (and terrifying) Paddy Russell is said to have died aged 89.

 

 

[YoungWillz 19,078]

33 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Via twitter reports, the wonderful (and terrifying) Paddy Russell is said to have died aged 89.

 

 

Pyramids Of Mars, Fang Rock...

 

And another associated with Priest Of Death after Valerie Stanton-Lewis...

[msc 17,762]

Also, Invasion of the Chewit Monster:

 

 

 

Which I am quite fond of, tbh.

 

None of the issues with that are at the door of Russell anyhow, being smart enough to know the bloody things were best kept in the background as much as possible!

[CoffinLodger 1,247]

8 hours ago, msc said:

 

Via twitter reports, the wonderful (and terrifying) Paddy Russell is said to have died aged 89.

 

 

Very sad news. Really enjoyed listening to her commentaries on the old Dr Who DVDs , esp how she coped with Tom Baker's demanding behaviour !  

 

PS here's an obit for her http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/11/paddy-russell-1928-2017.html

[msc 17,762]

On 10/4/2017 at 11:33, Bibliogryphon said:

Happy Birthday to Dudley Simpson who is 95 today.

 

Breaking: dead.

 

 

[YoungWillz 19,078]

2 hours ago, msc said:

 

Breaking: dead.

 

 

Reported here so far: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/11/dudley-simpson-1922-2017.html

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12 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Reported here so far: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/11/dudley-simpson-1922-2017.html

My third DDP non-hit.  The Sun carries a QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4850713/doctor-who-composer-dudley-simpson-dead-95/ . 

[CoffinLodger 1,247]

On 05/11/2017 at 21:14, msc said:

 

Breaking: dead.

 

 

It's been a sad few days for fans of Doctor Who ! Basically Dudley Simpson provided  the soundtrack for 1970s Doctor Who episodes .RIP to a musical genius ! 

[YoungWillz 19,078]

Scott Fredericks, who appeared as Boaz in Day of the Daleks and Stael in Image of the Fendahl, has died aged 74. http://irishequity.ie/scott-fredericks/

 

Quintessential baddie. Also was in Blakes 7 and Triangle.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fredericks

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292868/

 

[msc 17,762]

7 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Scott Fredericks, who appeared as Boaz in Day of the Daleks and Stael in Image of the Fendahl, has died aged 74. http://irishequity.ie/scott-fredericks/

 

Quintessential baddie. Also was in Blakes 7 and Triangle.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fredericks

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292868/

 

 

He's very good in Image of the Fendahl. When I made the wife endure more bloody Doctor Who showed the story to the better half, she was surprised they got away with his demise in 70s Who. Probably wouldn't now.

[YoungWillz 19,078]

Just now, msc said:

 

He's very good in Image of the Fendahl. When I made the wife endure more bloody Doctor Who showed the story to the better half, she was surprised they got away with his demise in 70s Who. Probably wouldn't now.

Fendahl is a firm favourite of mine...it was a real hide behind the sofa one for me and I think it would hold up today.

[msc 17,762]

Just now, YoungWillz said:

Fendahl is a firm favourite of mine...it was a real hide behind the sofa one for me and I think it would hold up today.

 

I quite like it. But you know, assisted suicide, in kids TV. That's a bit heavy!

 

Oh, sorry, spoilers if TMIB or Biblio haven't seen it...

[themaninblack 2,112]

14 minutes ago, msc said:

 

I quite like it. But you know, assisted suicide, in kids TV. That's a bit heavy!

 

Oh, sorry, spoilers if TMIB or Biblio haven't seen it...

Seen it of course!

 

By Chris Boucher but not a patch on 'The Robots of Death' IMO, although better than 'The Face of Evil', which I've never warmed to...