🎭 Actor
Richard Franklin
🎂 Born 15 January 1936 (age 87)✝ 25 December 2023📍 Marylebone, London, England, UK
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist. Principally a stage actor, he also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British television programmes, including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm, and he portrayed Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974, returning to the role on a number of occasions both on television and in Doctor Who spin-off media.
Known For
Full Filmography(29 films)
YearTitleRating
2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story★ 7.51983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors★ 7.81993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time★ 4.81972Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks★ 7.92008The Ties That Bind Us—2008Chemical Wedding★ 4.21968The Fiction Makers★ 7.21998Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?★ 8.51971Doctor Who: The Dæmons★ 7.61993Return to Devil's End★ 8.01974Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders★ 7.41971Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil★ 7.51972Doctor Who: The Time Monster★ 5.91973Doctor Who: The Green Death★ 8.42013Twilight of the Gods★ 3.02015Longleat '83: The Lost Footage—2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy★ 7.01971Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos★ 6.81971Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons★ 7.82013A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee—1974Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs★ 6.82008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983—2001ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis—2017The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years—2023Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster—1986Blake's 7: Aftermath—2011Life on Earth—1992Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee—2022Saving Elodie—