Patrick Troughton

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Patrick George Troughton (born on March 25, 1920 – March 28, 1987) was an English actor.

He was classically trained for the stage but became most well-known for his appearances on television and film.

His work included appearances in many fantasy, science fiction, and horror films, but he was best known for his role as the second incarnation of Doctor Who, a long-running British science-fiction television series that starred from 1966 to 1989; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983, and 1985.

Early life

Troughton was born in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, on March 25th to Alec George Troughton (1887-1993), a lawyer, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord (1886–1979), who married in Edmonton in 1914. Alec Robert (1915-1994), Patrick's elder brother, and Mary Edith (1923-2005), were among his younger siblings. Troughton attended Mill Hill School and lived in Mill Hill for the majority of his life. He appeared in a J. Connor production while at Mill Hill High School. Bees of B. Priestley on the Boat Deck in March 1937.

Troughton was educated by Eileen Thorndike at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage. He was later given an acting scholarship at Leighton Rallius Studios in the United States' Leighton Rallius Theatre on Long Island, New York.

He left his studies in the United States and returned to Great Britain to enlist when the Second World War broke out. The ship carrying him crashed a sea mine off the coast of Britain, causing him to recover in a lifeboat as the vessel was discovered. On his return to England, he served with the Tonbridge Repertory Company for a short time, although he wasn't about to join the Armed Forces.

Troughton joined the Royal Navy in 1940, earning a commission with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in November 1941. From February to August 1941, he was on East Coast Convoy service, and then with the Coastal Forces' Motor Boats based in Great Yarmouth, operating in the North Sea and English Channel. He was involved in an assault against Kriegsmarine E-boats, which resulted in one of the enemy craft being destroyed by ramming, but Troughton's boat and another destroyed two more with their gunfire during his MGB service. In many daring assaults on enemy shipping in hostile waters, his decorations included the 1939–45 Star, the Atlantic Star, and his expertise. In the North Sea's cold weather, he used to wear a tea cosy on his head.

Personal life

On September 3, Troughton married Margaret Dunlop, his first wife, at the Union Church at Mill Hill.

Troughton began living in two years after his third child's birth in 1955, choosing to move with girlfriend Ethel Margaret "Bunny" Nuens, who also had three children. Troughton continued to be a success that his own mother died unaware of the truth in 1979, 24 years after Troughton left Dunlop. Joanna, Troughton's first daughter, who suffered with him during his split with Dunlop, has promised never to speak to her father again. At the time of his death in 1987, his inconsistencies were unresolved. Although Troughton never married Nuens, in 1976 he did marry Shelagh Holdup and had two stepchildren.

Troughton's six children are:

Troughton's grandchildren include:

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Career

Troughton returned to the theatre after being demobilized. At the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, he performed with the Amersham Repertory Company, the Bristol Old Vic Company, and the Pilgrim Players. In 1947, he made his television debut. Troughton made his cinema debut in 1948, appearing as a pirate in Olivier's Hamlet (one of the principal actors was William Hartnell) and a minor part as a pirate in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), but only during the assault on the heroes' hut. Television, on the other hand, was his favorite medium. He became the first actor to play Robin Hood on television from 17 March to 21 April on the BBC, and simply Robin Hood. Troughton will also appear in Richard Greene's Adventures of Robin Hood. In Richard III (1955), he appeared as the murderer Tyrrell in Olivier's film of Richard III. Richard was also Olivier's understudy on the film and appeared in many long shots as Richard.

Kettle in Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Invisible Man (1958), "Young"), Phineus in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop (1962–63). In a 1965 BBC Home Service radio version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith appeared. Doctor Who appeared in numerous television shows, including The Count of Monte Cristo, Ivanhoe, Dial 999, Danger Man, Maigret, Compact, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, The Third Man, Crane, Sherlock Holmes, The Saint, Armchair Theatre, Adam Adamant Lives! Softly, Softly.

In the Doctor Who tale The Gunfighters offered Troughton the role of Johnny Ringo but the Doctor Who story was not accepted.

In 1966, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd looked for a replacement for William Hartnell in the series's leading role. Despite the brave decision that the replacement will not be a Hartnell lookalike or soundalike, the show's continued existence depended on audiences' acceptance of another actor in the role. "There is only one man in England who can take over," Hartnell later said, "and that is Patrick Troughton." Lloyd chose Troughton because of his extensive and versatile work as a character actor. Troughton considered many ways to approach the role after being cast in order to distinguish his portrayal from Hartnell's amiable-tetchy patriarch. Troughton's first thoughts about how he could play the Doctor included a "tough sea captain" and a piratical figure in blackface and turban. The Doctor Who creator, Sydney Newman, suggested that the Doctor be a "cosmic hobo" in the mold of Charlie Chaplin, and this was the interpretation that was eventually chosen. Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face in the show's opening titles. Troughton appeared in two serials: as both the protagonist (The Doctor) and the villain (Salamander).

Troughton avoided exposure and rarely gave interviews during his time on the series. "I think acting is magic," he told one interviewer. It will be "spoiled" if I tell you all about myself. Years later, he told another interviewer that his biggest fear, after being outed, was that so much publicity would limit his opportunities as a character actor.

Ernest Thompson of Radio Times Troughton admitted that he "always loved dressing up" and would have been content as a school tutor when children's age, and would have been content as a school teacher." Both the production team and his co-stars were raving about Troughton's fame. Troughton was credited with a "leading actor's temperament," according to producer Lloyd. He was a father figure to the entire company and, as a result, he was able to embrace it and sweep it with him." Troughton also earned a reputation as a practical joker on set.

Many of the early episodes in which Troughton appeared were among those that were deleted by the BBC. After three years in the role, Troughton found Doctor Who's schedule (at the time, 40 to 44 episodes per year) was troubling, and decided to leave the series in 1969. This decision was also motivated in part by the fear of being typecast.

After officially leaving the program, Troughton returned to Doctor Who three times. The first of these appearances appeared in The Three Doctors, the series's 10-th series's first serial release. Troughton overcame some reluctance to return to his role in 1983 and agreed to appear in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors at the request of series producer John Nathan-Turner. In 1983, he decided to attend Doctor Who conventions, including the show's 20th anniversary celebrations in Longleat. Nathan-Turner has appeared in various countries around the world. Troughton loved the return to the show so much that he agreed to appear one more time as the Second Doctor in The Two Doctors (1985). According to reports, he advised Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison to limit his time in the role to three series to prevent typecasting, and the younger actor followed this advice.

As part of the BBC's fiftieth anniversary celebrations, the BBC produced a docudrama about Doctor Who's early days. In the film An Adventure in Space and Time, played by actor Reece Shearsmith, Troughton appears as a character.

A still image of Troughton from 1953 appears in the forthcoming Robin Hood depicted by the Twelfth Doctor to the outlaw in 2014.

Since Troughton left Doctor Who in 1969, he appeared in numerous films and television roles. Clove appeared in Scars of Dracula (1970), a bodysnatcher in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973), Father Brennan in The Omen (1976), and Melanthius in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) (for which he began training in the episode "The Baddies), A Family at War, Robert Wilson, The End of War, A Family of Death, The King of King (1976–79), Nanny and Minder, The Onedin Line, Season 4 Episode #9), William Edwards, Thomas Howard, the legendary actor in five of Henry VIII's "The Goodies), The Unknown Soldiers "The Nua a (in "The One, Nasca,... Cole Hawlings was also depicted in a BBC Television dramatization of John Masefield's book The Box of Delights (1984). He appeared in a Two Ronnies Christmas Special as a judge in the same year.

Troughton's health was never fully improved as a result of heavy drinking and smoking (he had quit smoking in the 60s but the harm had already been done). Later in his life, he refused to accept his doctor's advice after he had suffered from a serious heart disease due to overwork and stress. He had two major heart attacks, one in 1979 and the other in 1984, both of which barred him from working for many months after. His doctor's alerts were reiterated as Troughton committed himself to a heavy television and film schedule after each of these attacks.

He appeared in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour's 1974 radio version. He appeared in the first series of the LWT sitcom The Two of Us in 1986, and he appeared in an episode of Super Gran in May 1987, which was the last role he appeared in. His last television appearance in Knights of God, which had been shot two years ago, was in the fall of the same year. Troughton appeared in the first episode of Central Independent Television's Inspector Morse, "The Dead of Jericho," which was originally broadcast on ITV on January 6, 1987.

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