Edward Caddick

Character & Episode: Patient in You Can Always Find a Fall Guy
Born: 21/06/1931, Finsbury, London, England (as Edward George Caddick)
Died: 09/06/2017, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Edward Caddick was a fair-haired actor with a striking, arguably odd appearance. A capable supporting player who was seen mainly during the Sixties on television, he trained as an actor at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1955. His television debut took place shortly after, with one of his earliest appearances being on 17th February 1957 when he played a 'Man in a Raincoat' in The King of Iceland, an Armchair Theatre play. Other notable appearances during the 1960s were in Doctor Who (The Savages), The Avengers (as a demon barber in Escape in Time) and Department S (Dead Men Die Twice). He also wrote two novels for children: Paddy On Sundays (released in 1965) and Hannah and The Peacocks (1966).

Edward made early Seventies appearances in Callan (1970) and The Ten Commandments (1971), and soon after emigrated to Australia, where he worked mainly as a writer and radio actor. He returned to screen work in the early 1980s, and registered his last credit in a minor role in the family fantasy Playing Beatie Bow (1986). Edward was married to the actress Loelia Kidd (1934-2007).

Richard Caldicot

Character & Episode: The Doctor in Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?
Born: 07/10/1908, London, England (as Richard Cuthbert Giles Caldicot-Bull)
Died: 16/10/1995, London, England

Another busy character actor with well over two hundred film and television credits, Richard Caldicot was also busy on radio and in theatre. His father was a civil servant and Richard was brought up well, attending Dulwich College. He then appeared in repertory theatre and on the West End stage from 1928, taking actor training at RADA, and graduating in 1930. The early days of his career were spent on the stage and this led to his radio debut in 1938 when the BBC made a live broadcast of Going Greek from the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, London, with Richard being among the cast. He would start appearing in films and on television shortly after the Second World War.

It is perhaps for his role as Commander (later Captain) Povey in the BBC radio series The Navy Lark (1959-1977) that he will always be best remembered. Early television series from the Fifties he appeared in include The Inch Man and Reggie Little at Large. Later appearances include The Prisoner (Many Happy Returns, 1967), The Forsyte Saga (also 1967), seven episodes of the American sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies as John Faversham (1967-68), UFO (Reflections in the Water, 1971), Fawlty Towers (Gourmet Night, 1975), and Coronation Street (as Reverend Smedley, 1977). Another late-career role remembered by many viewers is as the obstetrician who delivered Betty Spencer's baby in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. His career slowed from the Eighties but he did continue to work up to his death aged 87 in 1995. Among his final roles was an appearance as Nathan Garrideb in The Mazarin Stone, the penultimate episode of Granada Television's prestigious Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.

In his home life, Richard married Judith Mary Gray (1922-2010) in 1951. The couple had one child, a son, Jonathan Caldicott-Bull.

Demi Caldren

Character & Episode: Girl Sitting at Bar in Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?

The only known screen appearance by Demi Caldren is the one that she registered in this episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

Joyce Carey OBE

Character & Episode: Mrs Maddox in Murder Ain't What It Used To Be!
Born: 30/03/1898, Kensington, London, England (as Joyce Lilian Lawrence)
Died: 28/02/1993, Westminster, London, England

Born into a theatrical family - her father was Gerald Lawrence (1873-1957) and her mother Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948), both well-known stage performers - Joyce Carey followed in the family tradition and made her professional stage debut in the West End production of the exotic melodrama Mr Wu in 1916, when she was 18 years old. In 1919, Joyce was a regular at Stratford-upon-Avon in a variety of plays. Later, she became a lifelong friend of Noel Coward, and featured in many of his stage plays, working as a stage director for a few of them, over the coming decades. Her career would span seventy years, and she would still be acting into her nineties.

Joyce trained at the Florence Etlinger Dramatic School, graduating in 1916, and made a handful of silent films over the next few years, starting shortly before the end of the First World War. However, it was not until 1945 that she started to appear regularly on screen. One of her best-remembered roles was as Myrtle Bagot, train station buffet manageress, in David Lean’s Brief Encounter in 1945 – a film which raised the profile of its lead players Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Among Joyce's other early film appearances were roles in the classic Blithe Spirit (1945), which featured Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford, The October Man (1947) and The Astonished Heart (1950). These early successes helped Joyce carve a niche for herself in the performing arts, with her specialism being the portrayal of aristocratic ladies and slightly eccentric, dotty aunts and mothers. Joyce appeared in many films throughout the Forties and Fifties, after which time she concentrated her career predominantly on television work. She guested in such series as No Hiding Place (The Paying Guests, 1962), Danger Man (Whatever Happened to George Foster?, 1965) and The Avengers (Homicide and Old Lace, 1969). Between 1968 and 1973 she played Patrick Cargill’s mother in the popular comedy series Father Dear Father, and then, between 1976 and 1978, she featured as Lady Alice Bourne in a major period drama series, The Cedar Tree, which chronicled the shifting fortunes of a fictional aristocratic family through the turbulent years of the 1930s leading up to the Second World War.

Besides her performing arts work, which also included radio, Joyce wrote two plays under the pen name Jay Mallory. The first of these, Sweet Aloes, had runs at British theatres in the mid-1930s, while the other, A Thing Apart, was staged in 1938. She was also a well-respected theatrical advisor, and her sage advice and good judgement was called upon in the casting of actors and directors in many stage productions. In 1982 she received the Order of the British Empire.

Joyce Carey died in her sleep of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 94 in 1993 at London’s King Edward VII Hospital.

Dave Carter

Character & Episode: Electrician in My Late, Lamented Friend and Partner

Dave Carter's television credits span from the mid-Sixties to the late Eighties, and during that time he made more than fifty appearances in a variety of programmes. He seems to have made his uncredited debut with Gerald Harper in Adam Adamant Lives! in 1966. He was generally cast in minor roles, usually without any lines. His last credited appearance was in 1989 when he played an injured workman in The Bill.

He is probably most readily recognised for his Doctor Who roles during the Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker years, during which he variously played guards, prison officers and rebels. He was one of the Silurian creatures in Dr Who and the Silurians and a Primord a few months later in Inferno. His final credits in Doctor Who - as Sergeant Duffy in Invasion (of the Dinosaurs) alongside Jon Pertwee, and as Grierson in The Android Invasion with Tom Baker - witnessed him finally rising to the heights of having a character name in Doctor Who!

Ann Castle

Character & Episode: Mrs Cavallo-Smith in Vendetta for a Dead Man
Born: 1922, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England (as Eileen Middleton Brown)
Died: 2011, Surrey, England

Ann Castle was a supporting actress who made more than seventy screen appearances, mainly on television, often in supporting roles in a career which spanned more than fifty years. In her earliest days as an actress, she used the stage name Eileen Ridgeway-Brown, adding 'Ridgeway' (her father's name) to her birthname of Eileen Brown.  In 1939, she was awarded silver medal in the Advanced Certificate (Grade V) Elocution examinations at Newcastle (LGSM - Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama).

In 1943, by which time she was working professionally as Ann Castle, volunteered to go abroad to entertain the troops in the Second World War, as part of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). She was ill with pleurisy through Christmas 1943 and when she rejoined her company after recuperating, she found that the lead actress had been taken ill and at six hours' notice, Ann had to take her place in the play Ladies in Waiting. Subsequently she was in the cast of Saloon Bar and The Circle and played in all sorts of theatres throughout the Middle East, all of which was excellent experience gained for a post-war career on the British stage.

In October 1944, she embarked in a Dutch liner with a hundred fellow artistes and several thousand troops. nurses and Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS, often referred to as 'wrens'). The ship was torpedoed in the Western Mediterranean and Ann was rescued after four hours in a lifeboat by a British destroyer and landed at Philippeville (now Skikda), Algeria. Later, when she was travelling by rail from Alexandria to Cairo in Egypt, her train was involved in a head-on collision with a stationary train, but fortunately no-one was hurt.

Her earliest television appearance dates back to 1946, when the BBC was in the habit of taking cameras out into the field and filming 'television presentations' of theatre productions. In Ann's case, this meant that the production at The Intimate Theatre, Palmer's Green of Gerald Savory's George and Margaret in which she appeared as Gladys, was also shown on television.

Over the years, Ann contributed to several well-known television series, such as Dixon of Dock Green (1961 and 1968), Coronation Street (1965 and 1966) and in 1968 she played the mother in the BBC serialisation of Edith Nesbit's The Railway Children. Two decades later she appeared in the Midlands soap opera Crossroads (1984), and in David Wickes' popular mini-series Jack the Ripper (1988), which featured Michael Caine and Lewis Collins in the lead roles.

Ann was married to actor Alan Bridges (1927-2013) and passed away in 2011.

John Cazabon

Character & Episode: The Doctor in That's How Murder Snowballs
Born: 03/08/1914, Hertford (or Watford), Hertfordshire, England (as John Forde Cazabon)
Died: 22/06/1983, Ealing, London, England

John Cazabon was best known for his career on Australian radio, though he also amassed more than eighty screen appearances, which were generally small, supporting roles and character parts. His parents were Albert Cazabon (1883-1970), a noted violinist, and Gladys Cazabon (née Curtin), a professional actress born in Australia, who featured in the Pickwick Theatre Group in the mid-1930s with John's older sister Norah (often spelled Nora). John went to Australia as a teenager in 1927, when his father emigrated there to become conductor of the Prince Edward Theatre orchestra in Sydney, New South Wales (a post Albert held with distinction until 1936).

In Australia, John studied at a music school and started his career as a writer of the libretto and lyrics, as well as a playwright and actor, on stage from 1933 and on radio from 1934. He won two Macquarie Awards recognising his skills as a radio performer. John returned to England in the summer of 1951, intending the visit to be a holiday, but he ended up remaining in his native country.

John’s first known credit was in the 1949 film drama Eureka Stockade. Notable small parts followed in the Fifties and these included the television serial Quatermass II (1955), Fabian of the Yard (1956), The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) and Ivanhoe (1958). He also acted on radio and supplied a variety of character voices to the enormously popular Journey into Space, written by Charles Chilton, featuring in all three series that were made between 1953 and 1958.

During the Sixties, John made supporting appearances in several well-known series which included Danger Man (four episodes between 1964 and 1966), The Saint (1966), The Prisoner (two episodes in 1967 and 1968) and Department S (1969). He also appeared in one episode of ATV's classic children's SF series Timeslip as the father of Simon Randall (Spencer Banks), and would make later television appearances in productions such as Rooms (1975), Brensham People (1976) and The Galton and Simpson Playhouse in 1977.

In his personal life, John married Margery Gielis, with whom he worked in Australian Radio, in 1937. They later divorced. John's elder sister was an actress and set designer. He also had a younger brother, Robert, who was killed in action in 1941.

Pauline Chamberlain

Character & Episode: Showgirl in It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water;
Chorus Girl in That's How Murder Snowballs
Born: 02/10/1932, West Ham, London, England (as Pauline Lesley Chamberlain)
Died: 14/01/2021

Although Pauline Chamblerlain made significantly more than one hundred screen appearances, all of these were uncredited as she was mainly seen in the background and had very few speaking roles. Her identical twin sister Pamela also did some film work as an extra. Pauline's career as an extra really developed in the 1950s and over the following decades she featured in a number of television series and films. Such films cameos include Thunderball and A Hard Day's Night. Her television work included Danger Man, The Baron, The Prisoner, Department S and even playing a lady in a pub in an episode of Columbo.

During the 1970s she became a secretary but kept an agent for extras work, for which she would be granted days off from her office job. Her most high profile role was in the BBC situation comedy series Bread (1986-1990), in which she played a bespectacled member of staff at the labour exchange, a role that unusually included brief dialogue. She is seen dancing in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), and she did similar work in the films Oliver!, Scrooge, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Indiscreet, among others.

Pauline finally retired from extras work in the mid-Nineties. She passed away on 14th January 2021 having contract Covid-19 whilst in hospital. She was 88.

Vic Chapman

Character & Episode: Barman in Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?

Vic Chapman (also known as Victor) featured in many films and television programmes, generally as a background artiste. Such appearances include the films A Stitch in Time (1963), The Gorgon (1964), Inspector Clouseau (1968), Carry On Loving (1970) and The House That Dripped Blood (1971). ITC credits are numerous included Interpol Calling, The Four Just Men, Ghost Squad, Danger Man (half-hour and one-hour episodes), The Saint, The Prisoner and Man in a Suitcase. The vast majority of his appearances - as was standard practice regarding film and television extras - went uncredited, and on occasion he was known to play more than one character in a single episode. His earliest known appearance was registered in 1950 in the feature film The Wooden Horse. His acting career continued into the 1970s, with appearances up to 1975 when he featured in Trap, a first season episode of The Sweeney. It is unclear when Vic passed away, but it is known that he left a widow.

Jill Chartell

Character & Episode: Dancer in It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water

Born: 22/11/1944, Belfast, Country Antrim, Northern Ireland

A full Equity member, Jill Chartell has enjoyed a long career in International Belly Dancing, appearing in cabaret all over the world. After schooling at the Royal Masonic School for Girls, Jill then trained at the London College of Dance and Drama, has studied many different dance styles throughout her career and has taught the discpline for more than thirty years (mostly Arabic style – Traditional and Modern Egyptian with some Turkish). She has also featured in a variety of British TV programmes including Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and ITV Playhouse (the episode Rumour), is a professional tarot card reader (as Gipsy Jill the Tarot Reader) and is also an in demand after dinner speaker "with a difference". Her presentations comprise the history of the belly dance, her life as a dancer (interspersed with comedy and dance) and psychic development. Jill is also a teacher of creative dance and drama classes for people with disabilities, learning difficulties and special needs.

Tom Chatto

Character & Episode: Doctor in My Late, Lamented Friend and Partner
Born: 01/09/1920, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England (as Thomas Chatto St. George Sproule)
Died: 08/08/1982, London, England

Tom Chatto's parents were James St. George Sproule (c. 1894-1948) and Sproule's second cousin, Gladys Muriel Chatto. James, born in Melbourne, Australia, came to London after the First World War to marry Gladys, whose family founded the Chatto & Windus publishing house.

Tom trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). His earliest foray into acting was with the Colwyn Bay Repertory Company. After serving in the ranks of the Army, he was commissioned in the Indian Army, serving for four and a half years in India.

In 1947, he became a radio producer with the Overseas Recorded Broadcast Services for the Forces. This led to many broadcasts as a performer, and also on television, where he was seen regularly, both as an actor (he claimed to have been the first actor ever to appear on the ATV independent television channel) and as an announcer for the BBC. He appeared under the stage name 'Thomas Chatto', taking his mother's maiden name as his surname.

As well as his work on television and radio, he was no stranger to the stage, appearing in the West End in Fings Ain't What They Used T'Be at the Garrick Theatre and The Thurber Carnival with Tom Ewell. He was also the assistant director of Once More With Feeling, which starred Dorothy Tutin and John Neville.

Tom's early roles in feature films were in productions such as The Girl in the Picture (1957) and Hammer Films' memorable Quatermass 2. He also appeared in Oscar Wilde (1960), in which he played the Clerk of Arraigns. His most notable role is for playing Guy Hamilton in The Battle of Britain in 1969. However, his screen work was more focused on television, and included a role in the Associated-Rediffusion crime series Murder Bag (1957-1959), two 1958 Sunday Night Theatre plays for the BBC (The Body of a Girl and Touch Wood), a recurring role in the 1930s-set soap opera The Cedar Tree as Parsons, and an association with children's entertainer Rod Hull (famous for his vicious, silent but deadly Emu puppet) that led to appearances in Emu's Broadcasting Corporation (1975), Sing a Song of Emu (1975), Rod Hull and Emu Sing a Christmas Song (1976) and Emu's Christmas Adventure (1977).

Tom's wife Rosalind Thompson (1923-2012) was a successful talent agent. The couple had two sons, one of whom, Daniel (born 1957), became an actor.

Basil Clarke

Character & Episode: Coroner in For the Girl Who Has Everything
Born: 26/09/1913, Hackney, London, England (as Basil Claude Hudson Clark)
Died: 28/11/2004, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Basil Clarke was born in Hackney, London, and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, until the age of 11, whereupon in the mid-1920s, he went to live in New Zealand when his family emigrated there. On leaving St. Andrew's College, Christchurch, Basil gained work as a journalist, employed by The Press in Churchurch. As a young man, he lived briefly in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne and worked for both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

He joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in 1938, working on documentaries and plays concerning the history of New Zealand. During the Second World War, Basil was on "listening watch", reporting on developments in the conflict for Radio 2YA, while also acting on Kiwi radio and in repertory theatre. He left the broadcasting service in 1956 to tour with the New Zealand Players in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet. During his last five years in New Zealand, he was chief publicity officer for Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas (CORSO), a charity organisation set up in 1944 to tackle Third World hunger. While in post, he raised the charity's profile to such an extent that the New Zealand contribution to the international Freedom from Hunger campaign was larger than from any other Western country.

Basil returned to England in 1965, determined to gain experience in the British theatre. Within a fortnight of his arrival, he was engaged by Leatherhead Repertory Company and also successfully auditioned with the BBC, leading to radio and television work. He appeared in Man in a Suitcase, The Secret Garden and the ATV soap opera Crossroads, among others. In the theatre, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and toured with them in Australia and Japan.

At the age of 64, when most people are thinking of retirement, Basil undertook another challenge, emigrating to Australia, where he met with great success in the theatre, his last work being in a tour of A Funny Thing Happened at the Forum at the age of 85. He also appeared in a number of popular Australian television series, including The Young Doctors, Are Young Being Served in Australia and A Country Practice, in television commercials, and in the feature film Muriel's Wedding (1994). At 86, he won a best actor award at Tropfest 2000 for his role in Old Man, his final screen work.

Basil and his wife Hilary brought four children into the world.

Carol Cleveland

Character & Episode: Laura Slade in For the Girl Who Has Everything
Born: 13/01/1942, Mortlake, Barnes, Surrey, England (as Carol Gillian Frances Spreckley)

Although born in England, Carol Cleveland moved with her parentsto the United States as a child. Her father - David Ralph Anthony Spreckley - was American and in the US Air Force; he was also an actor. Carol's mother - Ada Eileen Prior (alias Pat Cleveland) - was a glamour and bit-part player in films, and Carol would later take the surname from her mother's alias for her stage name.

Carol was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then San Antonio, Texas, and later Pasadena, California, where she attended John Marshall Junior High School and Pasadena High School. She is a former Miss California Navy and appeared as Miss Teen Queen in MAD Magazine at the of age 15. However, in 1960 she moved back to London with her family and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Soon afterwards, she made her television debut in A Quiet, Ordinary Woman, a 1961 episode of Dixon of Dock Green which starred Jack Warner. Coincidentally, one of her co-stars from For the Girl Who Has Everything, Marjorie Rhodes, also appeared in this production.

Carol steadily appeared in a number of well-known series as the Sixties progressed, most notably The Saint, The Avengers and Man in a Suitcase. Her appearance in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) saw her replace Judy Huxtable, who had originally been cast as Laura Slade and who had not worked out in the part. Carol also appeared in supporting roles alongside a succession of comedy stars such as Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies), Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Spike Milligan and Mike Yarwood. Most famously though, she was the unofficial "seventh Python" of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969 to 1974), initially hired as an archetypal blonde bombshell. Stage directions for her first sketch described her as "a blonde, buxom wench in the full bloom of womanhood." When the team realised that she had a real talent for comedy, she became their preferred female collaborator and went on to appear in 34 of the 45 episodes made. Privately called "Carol Cleavage" by the other Pythons, she called herself the "glamour stooge". Cleveland also co-starred in all four Monty Python movies, including the dual roles of Zoot and Dingo, twin leaders of the maidens in the Castle Anthrax, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Her mother, Pat, appeared in Monty Python on several occasions, once as a mental patient with an axe embedded in her head.

By the Eighties, Carol's career had begun to falter. However, she has recently appeared in a number of productions including three short films, and was reunited with the Pythons as a member of the cast of Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go, which played at the O2, London, between 1st and 20th July 2014. In addition, she has toured with her one woman shows Carol Cleveland Reveals All and PomPoms Up! and written her autobiography, PomPoms Up!: From Puberty to Python and Beyond (Dynasty Press Limited, 2014).

In her personal life, Carol was married to the actor Peter Brett (1940- ) from 1971 until 1983. Carol has her own website: www.carolcleveland.com.

Linda Cole

Character & Episode: Anne-Marie Benson in Money to Burn

Little is known about Linda Cole, who appears to have made only a few screen appearances in a short career which started in the mid-Sixties and came to a close in 1970.

Linda earliest known screen credit was in the feature film Up the Junction (filmed 1967, released in 1968), and arguably enjoyed her most significant role in a film made in 1969 and released in Spain in 1970 - La Larga Agonía de los Peces Fuera del Agua - in which she played a beautiful English tourist who entranced the main character, played by singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat.

In addition to her role in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), she also featured in the Journey to the Unknown episode Poor Butterfly for Hammer Films and the BBC drama The Troubleshooters (two separate and unconnected appearances in 1969 and 1970). The latter appearance, as Ann Donaldson, marked her last known credit in British television.

Michael Coles

Character & Episode: Larry Wentworth in For the Girl Who Has Everything
Born: 12/08/1934, London, England (as Ernest Michael Coles)
Died: 26/04/2005, Chelsea, London, England

Michael Coles worked as a screen actor for about twenty years. In 1950, at the age of 15, he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a boy at HMS Ganges, an on-shore training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. In 1954 he was in the Naval Wireless Station in Hong Kong, and five years later, he was demobbed, upon which he sought out a career in the theatre.

Michael made his first television appearances in 1960, among which were Three Small Bones, an episode of Associated Rediffusion's popular crime drama No Hiding Place, and a BBC Sunday Night Play, The Ruffians by Alun Owen (transmitted 9th October 1960). He soon became a familiar face appearing in such series as Ghost Squad, The Plane Makers, The Saint, The Avengers and The Baron. His film appearances include Dr Who and the Daleks (1965), Dracula AD 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973).

After the mid-Seventies, his career petered out somewhat and he made his last screen appearance in the crime series Dalziel and Pascoe in 1996. Michael married Maryon Kantaroff (1933-2019), the world famous sculptress, in 1962. Sadly, the marriage was relatively short-lived and they divorced in 1966.

Patrick Connor

Character & Episode: Harry in Murder Ain't What It Used To Be!
Born: 06/08/1926, Margate, Kent, England
Died: 22/07/2008, High Peak, Derbyshire, England

Patrick Connor was a hard-working actor often seen in minor supporting roles. The son of Patrick and Alice Connor, he was in part educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate. He was employed for some time as a BBC studio manager, after which he progressed to the professional stage, truncating his real name to work as Pat Connor. He would drop this stage name in the mid-1950s and acted under his real name from that point onwards. His early extensive stage career included work with the Tavistock Repertory Company and other rep companies in England. Subsequently, he toured in Wedding in Paris (from 1955 to 1956) and featured in several West End productions, such as Alfie in 1963.

Patrick came to television in the early Fifties, with early roles in the BBС plays Whistling in the Dark, The Goldfish in the Sun (both in 1953) and Caesar's Friend (1954). His participation in the comedy series Nathaniel Titlark in 1956 was noted as being his fifteenth TV appearance. He would go on to contribute to many notable series including Quatermass and the Pit (two episodes in 1959), Danger Man (two episodes in 1965), two episodes of The Avengers (1961 and 1969), The Persuaders! (1971), Z Cars (1962 and 1972) and The New Avengers (1976). His final screen credit was in police series The Bill in 1990. Patrick also participated in radio productions, including the popular BBC soap opera The Archers.

On the big screen, he was seen in notable films such as One Good Turn (1955), I Was Monty's Double (1958), The Headless Ghost (1959) and Exodus (1960), although in each of these four films he did not receive an on-screen credit. However, he was credited in such films as John and Julie (1955), Slade in Flame (1975) and Eye of the Needle (1981), which starred Donald Sutherland. His last two screen credits were in Brazil and Lifeforce, both of which premiered in 1985.

In his personal life, Patrick was married to actress and writer Joyce Marlow (1929-2017), from 1955 until his death. The couple had two children, Nicholas, born in 1961, and Julian, born in 1966.

Douglas Cooper

Character & Episode: First Man at Séance in The Trouble With Women;
Audience Member in That's How Murder Snowballs

Douglas Cooper appeared as an uncredited extra in all of his film and television roles, with the exception of Dragonslayer (1981), in which he was credited as Urlander. Douglas is recorded as having figured in such television programmes as The Human Jungle (Struggle for a Mind, 1964), The Avengers (The £50,000 Breakfast, 1967, in which he portrayed a mourner at a funeral) and, of course, his two roles in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). He also made appearances in films including the Boulting Brothers' comedy Heavens Above! (1963) and The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983). The latter is a sequence in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Billy Cornelius

Character & Episode: Albert in A Sentimental Journey
Born: 18/08/1934, London, England (as William Cornelius)

Upon leaving school, Billy Cornelius started his professional life by working for a printing company. He was also a keen boxer and temporarily became a professional in 1958 in the light heavyweight division. He had nine professional fights, winning five. Afterwards, he found work as an extra and stuntman in film and television, and also worked in pubs around London as a bouncer.

His first screen appearance came in 1962 and this quickly led to a succession of notable minor roles. These included the Doctor Who serial The Space Museum (1965), in which he played a Morok guard, and The Illustrious Client, a 1965 episode of the BBC's Sherlock Holmes adaptations which starred Douglas Wilmer as the Great Detective.

His breakthrough into film work came in 1964. He was cast in Carry On Cleo, and this uncredited role as companion to Jim Dale's character Horsa would be the first of nine appearances he made in the celebrated film series. His best remembered Carry On role is undoubtedly as Oddbod Junior in Carry On Screaming (1966). He also featured in The Avengers and figured occasionally in Armchair Theatre during this time.

Later roles included appearances in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1968, screened 1970), Callan (1970) and children's series Ace of Wands (also 1970). His last Carry On film was Carry On Behind in 1975, playing a man with a salad, though he did also appear in three episodes of Carry On Laughing on television in the same year. His last screen appearance was in the early 1980s.

In recent years, Billy has been helping his son on his fruit stalls in Clapham and Putney.

Adrienne Corri

Character & Episode: Laura Watson in All Work and No Pay
Born: 13/11/1930, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (as Adrienne Riccoboni)
Died: 13/03/2016, London, England

Born in Scotland, the daughter of Lancastrian Olive Smethurst and Italian Luigi Riccoboni, Adrienne Corri was an actress with a fiery reputation. Surprisingly, her distinctive auburn hair came from her mother's side of the family. When Adrienne was young, her parents ran the Crown Hotel in Callander, Perthshire.

Adrienne graduated from her actor training school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in 1947. Her first screen appearance was in a live BBC television play shortly afterwards, The Infernal Machine (19th October 1947, with a second live performance two days later), adapted from the Jean Cocteau play. Later notable roles included Lara's mother in David Lean's sprawling epic Dr Zhivago (1965), and Dorothy in Otto Preminger's thriller Bunny Lake is Missing (also 1965). She also appeared in a number of horror and suspense films from the 1950s to the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars (1954), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), A Study in Terror (1965) and Vampire Circus (1972). Her versatility as an actress led to roles in such diverse productions as the offbeat science fiction Western movie Moon Zero Two (1969), a television version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1970) and as Thérèse Duval in the film comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).

Despite having significant parts in many films, Adrienne is arguably best known for one of her smaller roles, that of Mrs Alexander, the wife of writer Frank Alexander, in Stanley Kubrick's infamous, dystopian film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Though not originally cast in this role, she was brought in after the previous actress, reported to be Bernadette Milnes, left the film. Adrienne's scene, which depicts her character being gang-raped while her attackers sing the 1929 song Singing in the Rain made famous by Gene Kelly in the 1952 film of the same name, is uncomfortable to watch, even though its graphic content is kept to a minimum. However, Adrienne's main complaint reportedly concerned the large number of retakes that Kubrick insisted upon, the sequence taking four days to be shot to the director's satisfaction.

Her other television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom (1957-58), Yolanda in the H.G. Wells' Invisible Man episode Crisis in the Desert (1958), and regular roles in two 1971 series - A Family at War and You're Only Young Twice. She also featured prominently in the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive (1980) as Mena, alongside Laurence Payne, an actor whose credits often coincided with her own. For ITC, she guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode The Square Triangle (1970), popped across from the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) stage to that of sister series Department S for The Man Who Got a New Face, and had earlier featured in two 1965 episodes of Danger Man and The Night People, an episode of The Champions. Her final ITC credit was in The Adventurer, one of the most disappointing and ill-starred series that the company ever made.

Adrienne was equally at home playing in the classics of British theatre, giving an outstanding performance as Lady Fidget in a BBC Play of the Month, William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife (1977), alongside Helen Mirren. Adrienne made her last appearance on television in 1992 in an episode of Lovejoy. During her career she made more than one hundred television and film appearances.

In her private life, Adrienne was known for her tempestuous nature (she once reportedly gave a theatre audience a two-fingered salute in response to a critical reception) and her choice of friends, among whom were the notorious East End gangland bosses the Kray twins. She at one time revealed her wish to have children but not to marry, and consequently mothered a son, Patrick (who became a museum director) and a daughter, Sarah (who works as a lighting designer in France) during a relationship in the mid-Fifties with the film producer Patrick Filmer-Sankey (1925-1995). In 1961, she changed her opinion on wedlock and married actor Daniel Massey (1933-1998), who later commented that, "We were agonisingly incompatible, but we had an extraordinary physical attraction." Massey had reportedly envisaged a domestic role for his new wife, but she was not suited to the home life and insisted on continuing her acting career. The marriage ended in divorce in 1967. She did not remarry. Adrienne Corri died of a heart attack at her London home on 13th March 2016. She was 85.

Clifford Cox

Character & Episode: The Attendant in Just for the Record

Clifford Cox worked mainly on television during his career, ultimately appearing in more than one hundred screen productions, though many of his roles were of a minor nature. His early television career included roles in a quartet of BBC science-fiction series: Quatermass and the Pit (1958-1959), The Monsters (1962, in a regular role as Howard Milton), Out of the Unknown (1969 and 1971) and Doomwatch (1972). In 1961, Clifford could be seen in a recurring role as Sergeant Spender in the now-forgotten Granada drama series Family Solicitor. Other notable screen appearances that Clifford made during career were in series such as the Francis Durbridge thriller serial The World of Tim Frazer (1961), Z Cars (between 1962 and 1973), The Avengers (1967) and The Onedin Line (1971). His last television appearance was in the children's historical drama series Midnight is a Place in 1977 for Southern Television.

Maxwell Craig

Character & Episode: Undertaker in The Smile Behind the Veil; 3rd Poker Player in The Trouble With Women

Maxwell Craig was a minor supporting actor and stuntman. As part of his screen work he occasionally doubled and performed stunts and was known to have been a stunt double for Hollywood star Jack Palance at some point. He made a great many appearances in film and television, all of which were uncredited, with the exception of Lindsay Shonteff's Clegg (1970), in which he was credited as Hercules. His contributions to television include The Avengers, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, Space: 1999 and The Sweeney. His films include Carry On Jack, the Hammer Horror Hands of the Ripper and Superman III. He often played gang members, henchmen and people generally in the background. He died some years ago.

Tracey Crisp

Character & Episode: Dandy Garrison in A Sentimental Journey
Born: 15/04/1944, Walthamstow, Essex, England (as Vivienne Rose Crisp)

Tracey Crisp was an actress and photographic model active mostly in the mid- to late-Sixties. She made her screen debut at 22 years of age in the film The Projected Man in 1966 when she played a character called Sheila Anderson; she also appeared in the films The Sandwich Man and Press for Time in that same year. Other notable contributions were to the films Casino Royale (1967) and Inspector Clouseau (1968). Her later big screen appearances were in films such as Toomorrow (1970), Song of Norway and Percy (both in 1971), the latter being a sex comedy starring Hywel Bennett in the title role.

Tracey also appeared in a small number of TV series, including a role in genre favourite Adam Adamant Lives! as Susan in the episode The Resurrectionists (1967) and children's football saga United! (also 1967). After her Randall and Hopkirk role, she only made a handful of subsequent television appearances, including an episode of Yorkshire Television's The Root of All Evil? later in 1968.

Tracey first married in her late twenties, tying the knot with New York clothing executive Murray Garfield (1917-1990). When Garfield passed away, Tracey left the acting and modelling professions, remarried, and eventually wound up moving to New York City, America, after her second husband also passed away. In 2017 she embarked upon writing a memoir of her time in the arts.