Michael Craze

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Michael Craze (born November 29, 1942 in Newquay , United Kingdom, † December 8, 1998 in Surrey , United Kingdom) was a British actor .

life and career

Michael Craze began performing in West End musicals at the age of 12. These included The King and I , Plain and Fancy, and Damn Yankees . After graduating from school, he stayed at the theater, but almost at the same time got his first television role in a show called Family Solicitor (1958). In the early 1960s he starred in the British films Spare the Rod and Two Left Feet .

From 1966 to 1967 he played in his most famous role the Who Companion Ben Jackson in 37 episodes of the cult science fiction series Doctor Who . Ben accompanied both the first ( William Hartnell ) and second doctor ( Patrick Troughton ). Doctor Who made further appearances in film and television, for example in Dixon of Dock Green , Gideon's Way , No Hiding Place , Z-Cars and Journey to the Unknown . As Len Harvey, he again rose to prominence with the soap opera Crossroads , but dropped out after just 21 episodes and largely withdrew from acting. He later founded the production company Mantic Films . The company produced the short film Fragment , which was screened and awarded at the Commonwealth Film Festival . In 1974 Craze ran a pub in Shepperton near London . Occasionally he took acting jobs again in later years, for example in 1994 in the film Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh.

On the set of the Doctor Who episode The Tenth Planet , Craze met aspiring producer Edwina Verna, who was a production assistant there. The couple married three years later and they have a son, Ben Craze. Michael Craze died of a heart attack on December 7, 1998 at the age of 56. His body was cremated, the ceremony was accompanied by hundreds of Whovians and the Doctor Who theme song .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: Armchair Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1960: Target Luna (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1961: Temptation on the school desk
  • 1963: Two Left Feet
  • 1966–1967: Doctor Who (TV series, 37 episodes)
  • 1967: Sat'day While Sunday (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1970: Ivanhoe (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1972: The dead who did not want to die
  • 1976: Satan's slave
  • 1978: Killing House
  • 1994: The Faith Healer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Paul Scoones .: Michael Craze Obituary. . October 21, 1993. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Andrew Pixley: Pathfinder on television. . October 12, 1993. Archived from the original on December 9, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbutler22.freeserve.co.uk
  3. ↑ Michael Craze. . September 7, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Martin Belam: Doctor Who companions. A data story. . September 18, 2015. Accessed March 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Gordon Roxburgh: Michael Craze - Ben Jackson. . June 25, 1982. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ The Doctor's Companions. . Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jef Rouner: Doctor Who: Ben Jackson, The Lost Companion. . March 2, 2015. Accessed March 28, 2016.
  8. ^ Matthew Sweet: Karen Gillan: just what the doctor ordered. . May 21, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Craze, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Newquay , UK
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1998
Place of death Surrey , UK