Graham Crowden

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Graham Crowden
Born	30 November 1922 (1922-11-30) (age 86) Edinburgh, Scotland

Graham Crowden (born 30 November 1922) is a Scottish actor.

Biography

Crowden was born in Edinburgh, the son of Anne Margaret (née Paterson) and Harry Graham Crowden.^[1] Crowden is known for his roles in BBC comedy-dramas, including Dr. Jock McCannon in A Very Peculiar Practice and Tom Ballard in Waiting for God. He has also had a long and distinguished theatrical career, and originated the role of The Player King in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, the play by Tom Stoppard.

Crowden has occasionally played mad scientists in film, taking the role of Doctor Millar in the Mick Travis films of director Lindsay Anderson, O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982), and also playing the sinister Doctor Smiles in the film of Michael Moorcock's first Jerry Cornelius novel, The Final Programme (1973). He also played the eccentric History master in Anderson's if.... (1968).

He was offered the role of the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who in 1974, when Jon Pertwee left the role, but turned it down, informing producer Barry Letts that he was not prepared to commit himself to the series for three years. The role ultimately went to Tom Baker. He did, however, appear in The Horns of Nimon (1979) as a villain opposite Baker. He voiced the role of Mustrum Ridcully in the 1997 animated Cosgrove Hall production of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music.

In 1991, he played a modest role in the Rumpole of the Bailey episode Rumpole and the Quacks, portraying Sir Hector MacAuliffe, the head of a medical inquest into the potential sexual misconduct on the part of Dr. Ghulam Rahmat (portrayed by Saeed Jaffrey).

In 2001, he guest starred in the Midsomer Murders episode Ring Out Your Dead. In 2005, he starred in the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy Nebulous as Sir Ronald Rolands. In 2008, he appeared as a guest star in Foyle's War.

Filmography

Television roles

Films

• The Bridal Path (1959)
• We Joined the Navy (1962)
• One Way Pendulum (1964)
• Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
• If.... (1968)
• The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
• The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
• Leo the Last (1970)
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
• Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
• Percy (1971)
• The Night Digger (1971)
• Something to Hide (1972)
• The Ruling Class (1972)
• The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
• The Final Programme (1973)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• Romance with a Double Bass (1974)
• The Abdication (1974)
• The Little Prince (1974)
• Hardcore (1977)
• Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)
• Jabberwocky (1977)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• The Missionary (1982)
• The Company of Wolves (1984)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• A Handful of Dust (1988)
• The Innocent Sleep (1996)
• The Sea Change (1998)
• Possession (2002)
• Calendar Girls (2003)

References

External links

• Graham Crowden at the Internet Movie Database

Category Scottish film actors

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