John Ringham

Career Ringham appeared throughout BBC Television's Shakespeare adaptation An Age of Kings in 1960, most prominently as Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, the brother of Henry the Fifth. Other appearances over the years include several parts in Z-Cars; Softly, Softly, and Barlow at Large; Flambards; Poldark; the War and Peace dramatisation in 1972; Birds of a Feather; The Bill; Bless Me Father; Taggart; Bergerac; The Tripods; Juliet Bravo; Minder; All Creatures Great and Small; Dixon of Dock Green; Dad's Army; Are You Being Served?; Catweazle; Up Pompeii!; The Avengers; The Piglet Files, When the Boat Comes In, London's Burning, Rosie (TV series), and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Ringham played Inspector Lanner in the 1985 Sherlock Holmes adaptation of The Resident Patient. In Dad's Army he played two different characters – Private Bracewell in the pilot (he was set to become a major recurring character, but this was later dropped), then Captain Bailey in four later episodes.

Ringham appeared in Doctor Who three times, first as the bloodthirsty priest Tlotoxl in the story The Aztecs (1964). He returned in the stories The Smugglers (1966) and Colony in Space (1971).

Ringham also appeared as the by-the-book Commander Tri-S in the unsold pilot of The Solarnauts, created by Roberta Leigh (1967).

Playwright and author Ringham was also a playwright and the author of three books, including a biography of the composer George Frideric Handel.

Personal life In 1959 he married Elizabeth Shepherd (marriage dissolved 1962), and in 1966 Hedwig Felizitas Nowacki (two sons, two daughters).

Death Ringham died of cancer in 2008 aged 80.

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