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 Dundee; 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.[1]
Career
Theatre
Martin was perhaps best 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.[2]
Television and film
Previously Martin appeared in Doctor Who 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 The Paradise of Death alongside Third Doctor Jon Pertwee 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 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.
Films include Othello (1965), Absolution (1978), Krull (1983), The House of Mirth (2000), and Babel (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.[1] He died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 87, while on holiday in Bulgaria.[1][3][4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Z-Cars | Mr. Higgins | Episode: "People's Property" |
| 1964 | Z-Cars | Woolf | Episode: "The Dark Side of the Road" |
| 1965 | Sherlock Holmes | Duncan Ross | Episode: "The Red-Headed League" |
| 1966 | Play of the Week | Guy I, Count of Ponthieu | Episode: "A Choice of Kings" |
| 1966 | Coronation Street | Det. Constable Rodgers | 1 episode |
| 1967 | Jackanory | Storyteller | Episodes: "Pinocchio", "Five Golden Guineas", "The Money Tree", "Out of the Frying Pan...", "The Giant Dog Fish" |
| 1967 | The Troubleshooters | Colin Maddox | Episode: "Mr. Know-How" |
| 1969 | Play of the Month | Artemidorus | Episode: "Julius Caesar" |
| 1969 | Doctor Who | Time Lord | Episode: "The War Games" |
| 1969 | Z-Cars | Joe Andrews | Episode: "From Information Received: Part 1" |
| 1969 | Z-Cars | Joe Andrews | Episode: "From Information Received: Part 2" |
| 1969 | The Wednesday Play | Steward | Episode: "Blood of the Lamb" |
| 1970 | Z-Cars | Frank Pearson | Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 1" |
| 1970 | Z-Cars | Frank Pearson | Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 2" |
| 1972 | Van der Valk | Patrolman | Episode: "Destroying Angel" |
| 1973 | Z-Cars | Fuller | Episode: "Invention" |
| 1973 | Special Branch | Bomb Disposal Officer | Episode: "Red Herring" |
| 1979 | The Onedin Line | Captain Summers | Episode: "Running Free" |
| 1979 | Prince Regent | Thomas Denman | Episode: "Defeat...and Victory" |
| 1980 | Armchair Thriller: The Circe Complex | Tom Foreman | TV serial |
| 1982 | Bird of Prey | Chambers | TV serial |
| 1984 | Coronation Street | Arthur Whittaker | 13 episodes |
| 1984 | The Bill | The Stranger | Episode: "A Dangerous Breed" |
| 1989 | Inspector Morse | Porter | Episode: "Ghost in the Machine" |
| 1990 | Inspector Morse | Alan Sowden | Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers" |
| 1997 | Ain't Misbehavin' | Group Captain | [5] |
| 1998 | The Bill | Harry Bennett | Episode: "All the Lonely People" |
| 2003 | The Bill | Roy Abercrombie | Episode: "Security Risk" |
| 2013 | Call the Midwife | Mr Giddings | 1 episode |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Othello | ||
| 1978 | Absolution | Mr. Gladstone | |
| 1983 | Krull | ||
| 1987 | Three Kinds of Heat | Haggard | |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Jennings, the Butler | |
| 2006 | Babel | Douglas | |
| 2014 | Patch Town | Man at the Mall |
Theatre
| Date | Title | Role | Director | Company / Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 – | The Provoked Wife [6] | Sir John Brute | Toby Robertson | Prospect Theatre Company / Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire |
| – | Prospect Theatre Company / Vaudeville Theatre, London | |||
| 3 May 1977 – | State of Revolution [7] | Minister | Christopher Morahan | National Theatre / Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| 18 May 1977 – | National Theatre / Lyttelton Theatre |
References
- ^ a b c Hadoke, Toby (12 October 2017). "Obituary - Trevor Martin, Scottish actor who played Doctor Who on stage". The Herald. Glasgow.
- ^ "Trevor Martin is The Doctor". Big Finish News. Big Finish Productions. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
- ^ "Trevor Martin RIP". The Gallifreyan Newsroom. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Trevor Martin". Dr Who Guide. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ Ain't Misbehavin' – TV Guide
- ^ Prospect Theatre Company – Ian McKellen
- ^ State of Revolution – Theatricalia
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