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Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor who specialised in playing villains and hard men until 1985, when he took the key role of Tom Howard in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way. Colbourne was born Roger Middleton but took his stage name after reading about the death of actor Maurice Colbourne who shared the same birthday as he did. Colbourne's biggest success in the 1970s was as the lead in the crime drama series Gangsters. In the 80s he starred in Johnny Jarvis and the acclaimed adaptation of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel, The Day of the Triffids. Staying with sci-fi, he had a recurring guest role in Doctor Who as the mercenary Lytton, playing opposite the fifth and sixth doctors (Peter Davison and Colin Baker) in adventures featuring the timelords deadliest foes; the Daleks and the Cybermen. But it was the leading role in Howards' Way that he will perhaps best be remembered for. He played Tom Howard until 1989, when he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack. The show ended a year later.

Known For

5.4

Tom Howard

Howards' Way

1985

4.5

SS Officer

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

7.0

Lytton

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

1985

7.8

Lytton

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

5.0

Jake

Johnny Jarvis

1983

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7.0

Rating Notman

1982

5.6

Sampson

Venom

1981

6.5

Jack Coker

The Day of the Triffids

1981

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Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl

Dead Man's Kit

1980

4.7

Axe Man 1

Hawk the Slayer

1980

Credits

Howards' Way

as Tom Howard

1985

5.4

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

as SS Officer

1985

4.5

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

as Lytton

1985

7.0

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

as Lytton

1984

7.8

Johnny Jarvis

as Jake

1983

5.0

🎬

Rating Notman

1982

7.0

Venom

as Sampson

1981

5.6

The Day of the Triffids

as Jack Coker

1981

6.5

Dead Man's Kit

as Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl

1980

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Hawk the Slayer

as Axe Man 1

1980

4.7

Shoestring

1979

6.8

Bloodline

as Jon Swinton

1979

4.9

Return of the Saint

as Jed Blacket

1978

7.0

The Duellists

as Tall Second

1977

7.2

Gangsters

as John Kline

1976

8.0

The Littlest Horse Thieves

as Luke Armstrong

1976

6.8

Gangsters

as John Kline

1975

10.0

Churchill's People

as Dr Gedge

1974

1.0

Van der Valk

as Nick Scholtz

1972

5.8

Play for Today

as John Kline

1970

6.3

Times For

as man

1970

7.0

Cry of the Banshee

as Villager

1970

5.3

Doctor Who

as Commander Lytton

1963

7.9

Doctor Who

as Lytton

1963

7.9

Jesus of Nazareth

as Zacharias

1956

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