Friday, January 23, 2015

LotR and DW

People from the excellent BBC Radio 4 production of Lord of the Rings (1981, repeated 1987 and 2003 and available on CD) who have also been in DW:
  • Peter Howell (Saruman) - The Mutants (The Investigator)
  • Jack May (Théoden) - The Space Pirates (General Hermack)
  • Patrick Barr (Gamling) - The Moonbase (Hobson)
  • Gerard Murphy (Narrator) - Silver Nemesis (Richard)
  • Stephen Thorne (Treebeard) - The Daemons (Azal), The Three Doctors (Omega), The Hand of Fear (male Eldrad)
  • David Collings (Legolas) - The Robots of Death (Poul), Mawdryn Undead (Mawdryn)
  • Donald Gee (Radagast) - of course Monster of Peladon (Eckersley)! and also The Space Pirates apparently
  • Michael Spice (Háma) The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Weng-Chiang), The Brain of Morbius (Morbius voice)
  • Philip Voss (Lord of the Nazgûl) - The Dominators (Wahed)
And honourable mention to:
  • Pauline Letts (Ioreth) (Barry Letts' sister, it seems) ubiquitous in BBC radio drama for several decades
  • Peter Woodthorpe (Gollum) - one or more voice parts in Radio 4's Whatever Happened To... Susan Foreman (1994)
Not Doctor Who but still genre:
  • Peter Howell - also played the Professor in the Prisoner ep The General
  • Jack May - in the Avengers ep The Secrets Broker, and went on to a secure berth in The Archers
  • David Collings - Silver in Sapphire and Steel
  • Michael Graham Cox (Boromir) - also Boromir in Ralph Bakshi's animated LotR
  • Peter Woodthorpe again - also Gollum'd for RB
  • Marian Diamond (Galadriel) - one of the motorcycle enthusiasts in the Avengers ep Build A Better Mousetrap
Not Doctor Who, or genre, but deserving honourable mention - the 1986 Radio 4 production of The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen:
  • Peter Woodthorpe as the postillion
  • John Church (Gaffer Gamgee) as King George and God
(thanks to a certain Zoner for the Philip Voss information)