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Ian Marter
Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975…
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Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, these books were published under the pen name Ian Don - Don being his middle name. Marter died in 1986, on his 42nd birthday, from a heart attack associated with diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2017
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2015
Myth Makers
TV show Himself
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1987
Myth Runner
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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1986
Who's Who
Movie
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1986
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
TV show Inspector Fereday
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1986
King of the Ghetto
TV show Station Sergeant
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1985
Doctor Who's Who's Who
TV show Harry Sullivan
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1984
Sherlock Holmes
TV show Inspector Fereday
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1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie Harry Sullivan (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1982
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV show Policeman
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1981
Bergerac
TV show Cowman
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1981
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Movie Harry Sullivan (archive footage)
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1980
The Specialist
Movie Journalist
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1978
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
Movie Lincoln's Inn (The Big Fancy)
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1978
The Medusa Touch
Movie Detective
More credits
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1975
North and South
TV show Henry Lennox
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1975
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1975
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie Harry Sullivan
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1973
The Emergency Channel
Movie Literary Editor
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1973
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Movie John Andrews
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1972
Crown Court
TV show Quentin Ingrams
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1972
Holly
TV show Police Driver
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1971
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Movie 3rd Policeman
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1967
Doctor Faustus
Movie Pride/Emperor
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1966
Softly, Softly
TV show
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Harry Sullivan
