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Maurice Colbourne
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor who specialised in playing villains and hard men until 1985, when he took the key ro…
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Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor who specialised in playing villains and hard men until 1985, when he took the key role of Tom Howard in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way. Colbourne was born Roger Middleton but took his stage name after reading about the death of actor Maurice Colbourne who shared the same birthday as he did. Colbourne's biggest success in the 1970s was as the lead in the crime drama series Gangsters. In the 80s he starred in Johnny Jarvis and the acclaimed adaptation of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel, The Day of the Triffids. Staying with sci-fi, he had a recurring guest role in Doctor Who as the mercenary Lytton, playing opposite the fifth and sixth doctors (Peter Davison and Colin Baker) in adventures featuring the timelords deadliest foes; the Daleks and the Cybermen. But it was the leading role in Howards' Way that he will perhaps best be remembered for. He played Tom Howard until 1989, when he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack. The show ended a year later.
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1985
Howards' Way
TV show Tom Howard
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1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie SS Officer
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1985
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Movie Lytton
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1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie Lytton
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1983
Johnny Jarvis
TV show Jake
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1982
Rating Notman
Movie
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1981
Venom
Movie Sampson
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1981
The Day of the Triffids
TV show Jack Coker
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1980
Dead Man's Kit
Movie Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl
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1980
Hawk the Slayer
Movie Axe Man 1
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1979
Shoestring
TV show Priest
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1979
Bloodline
Movie Jon Swinton
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1978
Return of the Saint
TV show Jed Blacket
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1978
Strangers
TV show John Rutter
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1977
The Duellists
Movie Tall Second
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1976
Gangsters
TV show John Kline
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1976
Killers
TV show Patrick Mahon
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1976
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Movie Luke Armstrong
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1975
Gangsters
Movie John Kline
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1974
Churchill's People
TV show Dr Gedge
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1972
Van der Valk
TV show Nick Scholtz
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1970
Play for Today
TV show John Kline
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1970
Times For
Movie man
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1970
Cry of the Banshee
Movie Villager
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Commander Lytton
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1956
Jesus of Nazareth
TV show Zacharias
