Graham Crowden (born 30 November 1922) is a Scottish actor.
Crowden was born in Edinburgh, the son of Anne Margaret (née Paterson) and Harry Graham Crowden. 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 p...
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Graham Crowden (born 30 November 1922) is a Scottish actor.
Crowden was born in Edinburgh, the son of Anne Margaret (née Paterson) and Harry Graham Crowden. 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,...
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