David Collings
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David Collings (born 4 January 1940 in Brighton, East Sussex) is a British actor. He has played many different roles on various television programmes, including the leading dramatic role in Fyodor Dostoevsky's ' Crime and Punishment' in 1964. He played John Ruskin in The Love School (1975), a BBC series about the Pre-Raphaelites.
Collings has played several characters in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who including Vorus in Revenge of the Cybermen, Mawdryn in the serial Mawdryn Undead and Poul in The Robots of Death. He has also performed in one of the audio plays by Big Finish Productions in the Doctor Who Unbound series — Full Fathom Five. His other notable science fiction appearances were as Deva in the final episode of Blake's 7 and as the character of 'Silver' in several of the Sapphire and Steel adventures.
Collings did the voice acting for the Japanese television series Journey to the West released in English-speaking countries as Monkey.
On radio he portrayed Legolas in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
He is also noted for his children's television appearances, in 1989 he played Charn (the villain) in Through The Dragon's Eye and had a recurring role as the headmaster in Press Gang from 1989-1993.
