Patrick Troughton

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Patrick George Troughton (born March 25, 1920 in Mill Hill , London , United Kingdom , † March 28, 1987 in Columbus , Georgia , United States ) was a British actor. He was best known to a wide audience as the second incarnation of the title character of the British science fiction cult series Doctor Who , which he originally played from 1966 to 1969. He is the grandfather of Harry Melling , who plays Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films.

Early years

Troughton was born on March 25, 1920 in Mill Hill , London. He is the son of Alec George Troughton and his wife Dorothy Evelyn Offord, he has an older brother, Alec Robert (1915-1994), and a younger sister named Mary Edith (1923-2005). He attended Mill Hill School in London and also lived in Mill Hill for most of his life. He later attended the Embassy School of Acting . After his time at school, he won a scholarship for which he traveled to New York and lived there for a while. When the Second World War broke out, he returned to Great Britain on a Belgian ship. The ship sank off the British coast, but Troughton escaped on a lifeboat.

Career

Before Doctor Who

After the war, Troughton returned to the theater. In 1947 he made his television debut and in 1948 his film debut with a supporting role in the film Hamlet . This was followed by small roles in the TCF production Escape and as a pirate in Treasure Island . In 1953 he was the first actor to play the English national hero Robin Hood in the television series of the same name, which ran in six half-hour episodes from March 17 to April 21 on the BBC.

Doctor Who

In 1966, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd decided to replace the first incarnation of the Doctor, played by William Hartnell . Lloyd later announced that Hartnell had said there was only one man in all of England who could take on the role and that would be Patrick Troughton (the two previously played together in the film Escape ). Hartnell dropped out in the last episode of the four-part series The Tenth Planet and from this episode (4.08) Troughton played the doctor. Many of the early Doctor Who episodes in which Troughton played Doctor have been lost. Troughton played the Doctor for three seasons (118 episodes). So he stood for three years (1966–1969) as the second doctor in front of the camera. The final episode of the sixth season is the final episode in which Troughton plays the doctor. The role was taken on by Jon Pertwee . But he played the doctor again 1972/1973 for the tenth anniversary of the program in the four-part series The Three Doctors , ran its first episode on December 30, 1972, in the film the twentieth anniversary The Five Doctors (Engl. Title The Five Doctors ), which his It premiered on November 23 in the US and on November 25, 1983 in the UK. 1985 Troughton played the doctor for the last time in the episode The Two Doctors .

According to Doctor Who

After leaving Doctor Who in 1969, he starred in various films such as Dracula - Nights of Horror (1970), The Omen (1976) and Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). Troughton's health was never really robust, and later in life he had to accept that he had developed a severe heart condition from overwork and stress. He survived two heart attacks, one in 1978 and one in 1984, which prevented him from working for several months.

death

On March 27, 1987, Troughton was a guest at the "Magnum Opus Con II", a science fiction convention in Columbus , Georgia , USA . The next day, March 28, at 7:25 am, Troughton suffered his third and final heart attack shortly after ordering breakfast from the hotel staff.

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SURNAME Troughton, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Troughton, Patrick George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mill Hill , London Borough of Barnet, London, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1987
Place of death Columbus (Georgia) , United States