Maurice Colbourne
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Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 - 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor.
He was born Roger Middleton in Sheffield at the outbreak of World War 2. He took his stage name 'Maurice Colbourne' from an earlier film actor who had the same date of birth (in a different year) as his. He first became well known when he played the lead in a BBC drama series, Gangsters, from 1975-78, and afterwards appeared regularly on screen.
He twice appeared in the science fiction series Doctor Who as the character Lytton; in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) and Attack of the Cybermen (1985). He also appeared in the television miniseries adaptation of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1981), as the character Jack Coker.
He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985-89, until he died suddenly aged 49 of a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.
