Richard Hurndall
| Richard Hurndall | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Gibbon Hurndall 3 November 1910 Darlington, County Durham, England |
| Died | 13 April 1984 (aged 73) London, England |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Notable work | The First Doctor, Doctor Who |
Richard Gibbon Hurndall (3 November 1910 – 13 April 1984) was an English actor.
Hurndall was born in Darlington and he attended Claremont Preparatory School, Darlington and Scarborough College, before training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then appeared in several plays at Stratford-upon-Avon. Hurndall acted with the BBC radio drama repertory company from 1949 to 1952. He continued to play roles on BBC radio until about 1980, often as the leading man.
In 1958 he became the third host of the Radio Luxembourg program called This I Believe. (This show had originally been hosted by Edward R. Murrow on the U.S. CBS Radio Network from 1951 to 1955 and it was then edited in London for rebroadcast on 208 with a British style of presentation at 9:30 PM on Sunday evenings.)
Hurndall appeared in numerous radio and stage plays, films and television series over the course of his lengthy career. He appeared in ‘Someone at the Door’, a 1949 TV comedy / thriller, which also featured Patrick Troughton (with whom he was later to appear in Doctor Who - see below). The more fondly-remembered series he appeared in include The Avengers, The Persuaders!, Blake's 7(as Nebrox), Whodunnit! and Bergerac. He played the suave London gangster Mackelson in the gritty 1968 drama series Spindoe and the following year had a recurring role as flawed senior civil servant Jason Fowler in the final series of The Power Game. He appeared in the comedy series Steptoe and Son in 1970 as Timothy, a gay antique dealer who takes a shine to Harold Steptoe, in Any Old Iron (series 5 episode 3, 20 March 1970). He appeared twice in the series Public Eye, first playing a distinguished entomologist who is unwilling to trace his missing son in "The Golden Boy" (10 January 1973) and later a priest in "How About a Cup of Tea?" (13 January 1975).
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