Maurice Colbourne
Actor, TV Actor
1939 – 1989
Who was Maurice Colbourne?
Maurice Colbourne was a British stage and television actor.
He was born Roger Middleton in Sheffield at the outbreak of the Second World War, and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He took his stage name from that of an earlier film actor called Maurice Colbourne, who shared the same date of birth as his. He first became well known when he played the lead in a BBC drama series, Gangsters, from 1975–78, and afterwards appeared regularly on screen.
He twice appeared in the science fiction series Doctor Who as the character Lytton in Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen. He also appeared in the television miniseries adaptation of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, as the character Jack Coker. He also played Charles Marston, the love interest of Lady Fogarty in the seventh series of The Onedin Line screened from 22 July to 23 September 1979.
In 1972, he co-founded, together with Mike Irving and Guy Sprung, the Half Moon Theatre near Aldgate, east London. This was a successful, radical theatre company, performing initially in an 80-seat disused synagogue in Half Moon Passage, E1.
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1939
Sheffield - Also known as
- Roger Middleton
- Spouses
- Chan Lian Si
( - 1989/08/04)
- Chan Lian Si
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- Lived in
- Sheffield
- Died
- Aug 4, 1989
Dinan
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on July 23, 2013
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