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[topcat77]

Peter Stephens

Festival

[lisamarie-vee]

[laurabearl]

Recurring faces in the Wasteland

[jadonulrich]

Peter Stephens Quadrivium 38, 2022 Acrylic and collage on paper 30 × 22 in

[pedanther]

In the 12 episodes of the BBC's 1964 The Count of Monte Cristo, there are 26 actors who also appeared in Doctor Who.

Prominent among them are the actors playing the three main villains – Michael Gough as Villefort, Philip Madoc as Morcerf, and Morris Perry as Danglars – who all went on to play villains in Who as well.

On the other side, the Count's two assistants, Bertuccio and Ali, are played by Cyril Shaps and Roy Stewart, who both went on to play sympathetic supporting characters in Who, including playing colleagues again in "Tomb of the Cybermen". (There are apparently times when Stewart got to play something other than the strong silent type, but the BBC in the 1960s was not one of those times.)

And a fun detail from among the smaller roles: When Michael Gough as Villefort gains an audience with the King of France, the King is played by Peter Stephens, who appeared in Doctor Who a few years later as one of the minions of Michael Gough's Celestial Toymaker.

(Also pictured: Julian Sherrier, who went on to play one of the aliens conspiring with the Daleks in "The Daleks' Master Plan".)

[spacecamp1]

Peter Stephens

[glennk56]

Chubby actors on British TV in the 1960s

Photos 1 thru 5 are Reg Pritchard. He usually played minor roles. Photo 1 is from The Saint, Photo 2 from The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder, Photos 3 & 4 from 2 different The Avengers episodes and Photo 5 from a Doctor Who episode.

Photos 6 thru 9 are Peter Stephens. His characters were usually sneaky and untrustworthy. Photos 6 thru 8 are from Danger Man and Photo 9 is from The Avengers. 

[mariocki]

Out of the Unknown: Time in Advance (1.5, BBC, 1965)

"Nicholas Crandall. Otto Henck. Having regard to the work that you have achieved in helping to colonise those places in which you have spent the last seven years, I accordingly grant you your complete discharge, and your legal licences - to go forth from this place, and kill one man, or one woman, of your own choosing."