Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch (born 4 October 1939) is an English actor.
Early years
Carlton was born in
Oxford, England, the son of Pauline Ellen Laing (née Congdon), who died on 11 October 2007, and Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, a decorated naval officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society. His grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the
Consul General of
Queen Victoria in
Turkey.
[[1] Igor Lyman, Victoria Konstantinova. The Ukrainian South as Viewed by Consuls of the British Empire (Nineteenth - Early Twentieth Centuries). Volume 1: British Consuls in the Port City of Berdyansk (Kyiv, 2018), pages 271-287][[2] Lyman Igor, Konstantinova Viktoria. British Consul in Berdyansk Cumberbatch, Great-great-grandfather of Modern Sherlock Holmes, in Scriptorium nostrum, 2017, № 2 (8), p. 195-207]
Career
Carlton has had a long and distinguished career in both the theatre (
Her Royal Highness..? etc.) and in television, appearing in numerous BBC television series over the years since 1966 to the present day, including
Cold Comfort Farm (1968), the sitcoms
Executive Stress,
Keeping Up Appearances,
Next of Kin and in the television films
Gauguin the Savage (1980) and
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982). In 2015 he played Donald Sidwell in “Napoleon’s Violin”, S1:E8 of
The Coroner. His film career has included roles in
Baby Love (1969),
The Breaking of Bumbo (1970),
That Lucky Touch (1975),
The Bitch (1979),
High Road to China (1983) and
Parting Shots (1999).
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Personal life
Carlton is married to actress
Wanda Ventham, whom he met in 1970 while filming sequences for the drama series
A Family at War and they have been married since April 1976.
[Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005 database. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.] They appeared together in Series 2 of BBC drama
The Lotus Eaters in 1973 and Series 3 and 4 of BBC series
Sherlock in 2014 as the parents of the title character, played by their son, actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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