Two of Britain's most talented actors share a birthday today. Phil Davis, who portrayed the city augur Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii is 69; and Jason Watkins - Mr Webley in Nightmare in Silver - is 56.
In 1973 the actor Guy Middleton passed away at the age of 65. He featured in only a single episode of Doctor Who - the fourth instalment of The Highlanders, in which he played Colonel Attwood.
Middleton had been a huge star in the 1940's and '50's, often playing slightly dodgy, rakish characters. One performance of note is in the film The Halfway House (1944), a supernatural drama about an eerie Welsh hotel during WWII. (Roland Pertwee - father of Jon - appears in a scene with Middleton as a prison governor). A great comedy performance is in Laughter in Paradise (1951). I mention these two films in particular as they are shown fairly frequently on the Talking Pictures channel.
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