Roger Delgado
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- DramaThe Mind Benders
- ComedyThe Captain's Paradise
- AdventureIn Search of the Castaways
- ActionKhartoum
- ActionThe Assassination Bureau
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- Science FictionDoctor Who: Frontier in Space
- Science FictionDoctor Who: The Time Monster
- Science FictionDoctor Who: Colony in Space
- CrimeThe Broken Horseshoe
- ComedyHot Enough for June
- Science FictionDoctor Who: The Dæmons
- Science FictionDoctor Who: The Mind of Evil
- DramaDoctor Who: The Claws of Axos
- CrimeThe Case of The Smiling Widow
- Science FictionDoctor Who: Terror of the Autons
- DramaUnderground
- DramaAntony and Cleopatra
- ActionThe Terror of the Tongs
- CrimeThird Party Risk
- ComedySands of the Desert
- ComedyThe Road to Hong Kong
- HorrorThe Mummy's Shroud
- DramaThe Singer Not the Song
- AdventureSea Fury
- ActionThe Stranglers of Bombay
- AdventureThe Last Appointment!
- CrimeMark of the Phoenix
- DramaManuela
- CrimeMan in the Shadow
- CrimeBeautiful Stranger
- CrimeBlood Orange
- ActionThe Battle of the River Plate
- CrimeThe Running Man
- AdventureStorm Over the Nile
- ComedyThe Belles of St. Trinian's
- ActionYou Can't Win 'Em All
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Roger Delgado
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Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untimely death at the age of 55 in a car accident whilst filming the Franco/German TV production La Cloche tibétaine in Turkey. He had married twice, firstly to Olga Anthonisz and then, following his divorce. to Kismet Shahani who survived him.
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- London, England, UK
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