Trevor Gordon Martin (17 November 1929 – 5 October 2017) was a British stage and film actor known for playing popular British characters.

Trevor Martin
Born
Trevor Gordon Martin

(1929-11-17)17 November 1929
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died5 October 2017(2017-10-05) (aged 87)
Sofia, Bulgaria
OccupationActor

Early life and education

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Martin's parents were from Dundee; he was raised in Enfield, and after military service trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1953, as a result of which he began his career with the BBC Radio Drama Company.[1]

Career

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Theatre

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Martin was perhaps best known for playing the Doctor on stage at the Adelphi Theatre, London in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday based on the popular television series Doctor Who. In the 1974 play he essayed the role of an alternate Fourth Doctor, a role he reprised in a 2008 audio adaptation of the play from Big Finish Productions.[2]

Television and film

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Previously Martin appeared in Doctor Who as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial The War Games opposite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and later guested in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play The Paradise of Death alongside Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop alongside Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

Television credits are many ranging from the 1960s onwards and include 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.

Films include Othello (1965), Absolution (1978), Krull (1983), The House of Mirth (2000), and Babel (2006).

Personal life and death

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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 has been an MP.[1] He died on 5 October 2017 at the age of 87, while on holiday in Bulgaria.[1][3][4]

Filmography

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Television
Year Title Role Notes
1962 Z-Cars Mr. Higgins Episode: "People's Property"
1964 Z-Cars Woolf Episode: "The Dark Side of the Road"
1965 Sherlock Holmes Duncan Ross Episode: "The Red-Headed League"
1966 Play of the Week Guy I, Count of Ponthieu Episode: "A Choice of Kings"
1966 Coronation Street Det. Constable Rodgers 1 episode
1967 Jackanory Storyteller Episodes: "Pinocchio", "Five Golden Guineas", "The Money Tree", "Out of the Frying Pan...", "The Giant Dog Fish"
1967 The Troubleshooters Colin Maddox Episode: "Mr. Know-How"
1969 Play of the Month Artemidorus Episode: "Julius Caesar"
1969 Doctor Who Time Lord Episode: "The War Games"
1969 Z-Cars Joe Andrews Episode: "From Information Received: Part 1"
1969 Z-Cars Joe Andrews Episode: "From Information Received: Part 2"
1969 The Wednesday Play Steward Episode: "Blood of the Lamb"
1970 Z-Cars Frank Pearson Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 1"
1970 Z-Cars Frank Pearson Episode: "By Bread Alone: Part 2"
1972 Van der Valk Patrolman Episode: "Destroying Angel"
1973 Z-Cars Fuller Episode: "Invention"
1973 Special Branch Bomb Disposal Officer Episode: "Red Herring"
1979 The Onedin Line Captain Summers Episode: "Running Free"
1979 Prince Regent Thomas Denman Episode: "Defeat...and Victory"
1980 Armchair Thriller: The Circe Complex Tom Foreman TV serial
1982 Bird of Prey Chambers TV serial
1984 Coronation Street Arthur Whittaker 13 episodes
1984 The Bill The Stranger Episode: "A Dangerous Breed"
1989 Inspector Morse Porter Episode: "Ghost in the Machine"
1990 Inspector Morse Alan Sowden Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers"
1997 Ain't Misbehavin' Group Captain [5]
1998 The Bill Harry Bennett Episode: "All the Lonely People"
2003 The Bill Roy Abercrombie Episode: "Security Risk"
2013 Call the Midwife Mr Giddings 1 episode
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1965 Othello
1978 Absolution Mr. Gladstone
1983 Krull
1987 Three Kinds of Heat Haggard
2000 The House of Mirth Jennings, the Butler
2006 Babel Douglas
2014 Patch Town Man at the Mall

Theatre

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Date Title Role Director Company / Theatre
1963 The Provoked Wife [6] Sir John Brute Toby Robertson Prospect Theatre Company / Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire
Prospect Theatre Company / Vaudeville Theatre, London
3 May 1977 State of Revolution [7] Minister Christopher Morahan National Theatre / Birmingham Repertory Theatre
18 May 1977 National Theatre / Lyttelton Theatre

Radio

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


References

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  1. ^ a b c Hadoke, Toby (12 October 2017). "Obituary - Trevor Martin, Scottish actor who played Doctor Who on stage". The Herald. Glasgow.
  2. ^ "Trevor Martin is The Doctor". Big Finish News. Big Finish Productions. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Trevor Martin RIP". The Gallifreyan Newsroom. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Trevor Martin". Dr Who Guide. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  5. ^ Ain't Misbehavin' – TV Guide
  6. ^ Prospect Theatre Company – Ian McKellen
  7. ^ State of Revolution – Theatricalia
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