Trevor Martin

Trevor Gordon Martin (17 November 1929 – 5 October 2017) was a British stage and film character actor. He was known for work in the Doctor Who universe. He played the Doctor 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, Absolution (1978), Krull (1983), The House of Mirth (2000), and Babel (2006).

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.

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.

Film His films included 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 actress Hermione Gregory. He had four children from his first marriage; his son Sandy Martin was a UK Member of Parliament.

Filmography + Television Year Title Role Notes Z-Cars Mr. Higgins Episode: "People's Property" Z-Cars Woolf Episode: "The Dark Side of the Road" Sherlock Holmes Duncan Ross Episode: "The Red-Headed League" Play of the Week Guy I, Count of Ponthieu Episode: "A Choice of Kings" Coronation Street Det. Constable Rodgers 1 episode Jackanory Storyteller Episodes: "Pinocchio", "Five Golden Guineas", "The Money Tree", "Out of the Frying Pan...", "The Giant Dog Fish" Colin Maddox Episode: "Mr. Know-How" Play of the Month Artemidorus Episode: "Julius Caesar" Doctor Who Time Lord Episode: "The War Games" Z-Cars Joe Andrews Episode: "From Information Received: Part 1" Z-Cars Joe Andrews Episode: "From Information Received: Part 2" Steward Episode: "Blood of the Lamb" Z-Cars Frank Pearson Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 1" Z-Cars Frank Pearson Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 2" Van der Valk Patrolman Episode: "Destroying Angel" Z-Cars Fuller Episode: "Invention" Special Branch Bomb Disposal Officer Episode: "Red Herring" Captain Summers Episode: "Running Free" Prince Regent Thomas Denman Episode: "Defeat...and Victory" Armchair Thriller: The Circe Complex Tom Foreman TV serial Bird of Prey Chambers TV serial Coronation Street Arthur Whittaker 13 episodes The Stranger Episode: "A Dangerous Breed" Inspector Morse Porter Episode: "Ghost in the Machine" Inspector Morse Alan Sowden Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers" Ain't Misbehavin' Group Captain Harry Bennett Episode: "All the Lonely People" Roy Abercrombie Episode: "Security Risk" Call the Midwife Mr Giddings 1 episode

+ Film Year Title Role Notes Othello Absolution Mr. Gladstone Krull The Beast voice Three Kinds of Heat Haggard Jennings, the Butler Babel Douglas Patch Town Man at the Mall

Theatre

Date Title Role Director Company / Theatre – Sir John Brute Prospect Theatre Company / Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire – Prospect Theatre Company / Vaudeville Theatre, London – Minister National Theatre / Birmingham Repertory Theatre – National Theatre / Lyttelton Theatre

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