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Royston Tickner
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Roy Albert Tickner (8 September 1922 – 7 July 1997), known professionally as Royston Tickner, was a British film actor.
Key Information
Biography
[edit]Born in Leicester, a tailor's son, he trained as an actor at Scarborough repertory theatre.
He served in the Royal Navy in World War II; however, in 1942 he was touring in the southern English counties, principally in H. F. Maltby's The Rotters[1] with Frank Crawshaw and Preston Lockwood.[2] In the winter of 1942–43 he was stage manager, and took the role of Robert, in the presentation of du Maurier's Rebecca at the Ambassadors Theatre in which Eileen Herlie made her London début,[3] and then toured with the show.[4] In that spring he married Gwendoline Bonde at Leicester.[5] From 1947 he took a break from the theatre to work as a lighthouse keeper, miner, fireman and publican, before returning to acting in 1958.
Television roles
[edit]His television credits include: The Avengers, Z-Cars, Doctor Who (in the serials The Daleks' Master Plan and The Sea Devils), Gideon's Way, The Baron, King of the River, The Troubleshooters, Dixon of Dock Green, Timeslip, The Flaxton Boys, Out of the Unknown, Thorndyke, Emmerdale Farm, Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Angels, Return of the Saint, Rogue's Rock, Secret Army, Danger UXB, George and Mildred, The Enigma Files, Kessler, Minder, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Just Good Friends and One by One.
Film roles
[edit]Film roles include Tomescu in Michael Mann's The Keep (1983), and first Colonel in Jim Goddard's Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985).
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Becket | Royal Servant | Uncredited |
| 1966 | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Workman | Uncredited |
| 1968 | Work Is a Four-Letter Word | Train Guard | |
| 1969 | All Neat in Black Stockings | Partygoer | Uncredited |
| 1969 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Policeman | Uncredited |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Messenger | Uncredited |
| 1982 | Tangier | Ted | |
| 1983 | The Keep | Tomescu | |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Colonel #1 | TV movie, (final film role) |
References
[edit]- ^ A comedy, a hit of 1916, about a disreputable family: see Gordon Williams, British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation (A & C Black, 2005), pp. 159–60.
- ^ See, e.g., Surrey Mirror 26.i.1941 (Reigate), Sussex Express 10.iv.1942 (Imperial, Brighton), Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 12.vi.1942 (Exeter Theatre Royal).
- ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), p. 96, item 42.178: see University of Birmingham Cadbury Research Library, XMS38 Theatre Colln., MS38/270.
- ^ See, e.g., Biggleswade Chronicle 15.i.1943 (Royal County Theatre, Bedford), Yorkshire Post 9.ii.1943 (Leeds).
- ^ Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 2nd Quarter 1943, Vol. 7a p. 793.
External links
[edit]- Royston Tickner at IMDb
- Royston Ticker at Theatricalia
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Royston Tickner
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''Royston Tickner'' was a British character actor known for his prolific supporting roles across British television from the late 1950s through the 1980s, appearing in well over one hundred productions and becoming a familiar presence in classic series of the era. [1]
Born Roy A. Tickner on 8 September 1922 in Leicester, England, the son of a tailor, he trained as an actor at Scarborough repertory theatre and served in the Royal Navy during World War II, during which he also performed on stage briefly in 1942 before marrying Gwendoline Bonde that spring. [1] After the war he left the theatre for over a decade to work as a lighthouse keeper, miner, fireman, and publican before returning to acting in 1958. [1] He went on to build a long career as a reliable character player in numerous popular shows. [1]
His television credits include Doctor Who, where he portrayed Steinberger P. Green in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965–1966) and Robbins in The Sea Devils (1972), along with appearances in The Avengers, Z-Cars, Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine, Danger UXB, Just Good Friends, and many others. [1] He also featured in films such as The Keep (1983) and the television movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985). [1] Tickner died on 7 July 1997 in England at the age of 74. [1]