Trevor Martin

 ( 1929 Births ) 

Trevor Gordon Martin (17 November 1929 – 5 October 2017) was a British stage and film character actor. He was known for work in the Whoniverse. He played Doctor Who on stage, a time lord on TV and other small parts for a radio play and an audio dramatisation. Martin had numerous television credits and acted in the films Othello (1965), Absolution (1978), Krull (1983), The House of Mirth (2000), and Babel (2006).

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Early life and education Martin was born in Edinburgh and raised in Enfield, London. After military service, he trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1953 and went to began his career with the BBC Radio Drama Company.

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Career

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Theatre

Martin was known for playing the Doctor on stage at the Adelphi Theatre, London in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday based on the popular television series Doctor Who. 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 Big Finish Productions.

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Television

Martin appeared in Doctor Who as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial The War Games opposite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and later guest starred in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play The Paradise of Death alongside the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop alongside Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

Martin had numerous television credits from the 1960s, including Sherlock Holmes, Jackanory, Van der Valk, Z-Cars, Special Branch, The Onedin Line, Coronation Street, Inspector Morse and The Bill. He also appeared as Mr Giddings in an episode of Call the Midwife.

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Film

His films included Othello (1965), Absolution (1978), Krull (1983), The House of Mirth (2000), and Babel (2006).

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Personal life and death

Martin was married twice. He first married Janet Moreton, they later divorced. He then married actress Hermione Gregory. He had four children from his first marriage; his son Sandy Martin was a UK Member of Parliament. Martin died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 87, while on holiday in Bulgaria.

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Filmography

+ Television

Episode: "People's Property"

Episode: "The Dark Side of the Road"

Episode: "The Red-Headed League"

Episode: "A Choice of Kings"

1 episode

Episodes: "Pinocchio", "Five Golden Guineas", "The Money Tree", "Out of the Frying Pan...", "The Giant Dog Fish"

Episode: "Mr. Know-How"

Episode: "Julius Caesar"

Episode: "The War Games"

Episode: "From Information Received: Part 1"

Episode: "From Information Received: Part 2"

Episode: "Blood of the Lamb"

Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 1"

Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 2"

Episode: "Destroying Angel"

Episode: "Invention"

Episode: "Red Herring"

Episode: "Running Free"

Episode: "Defeat...and Victory"

TV serial

TV serial

13 episodes

Episode: "A Dangerous Breed"

Episode: "Ghost in the Machine"

Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers"

Ain't Misbehavin' – TV Guide

Episode: "All the Lonely People"

Episode: "Security Risk"

1 episode

+ Film

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Theatre

Prospect Theatre Company / Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire

Prospect Theatre Company / Vaudeville Theatre, London

National Theatre / Birmingham Repertory Theatre

National Theatre / Lyttelton Theatre

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Radio

Trevor Martin played the part of Reuben Starkadder in BBC Radio 4's 1981 production of Stella Gibbons' novel Cold Comfort Farm.

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External links

• An interview with Trevor Martin from Sonic Screwdriver magazine
• Trevor Martin at Theatricalia

Categories: 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

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