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I'd like to see more citations, but still technically a B.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 13:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mystery man and citation

I was watching the KTEH interview with Troughton, in which he says that he thought he might do the role in blackface and "play it like Conrad Weiss, that sort of thing". I've got no idea who this is (or if I'm spelling it correctly) — anybody else here have a clue?

Also, the interviewer is named Terry Phillips: should I put that in the citation? If so, where? (Online MLA reference pages were unclear, and I don't know where my MLA Style Handbook is.) —Josiah Rowe 06:38, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

He was referring to Conrad Veidt, who played in blackface in The Thief of Baghdad. Just Interview with Terry Phillips should do, I think. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 07:36, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, Terence! —Josiah Rowe 14:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
Good thing they didn't go for that! A blackface Doctor Who would have been a travesty. Type 40 (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
I rather suspect that if they had done that the series wouldn't still be around four decades later. Nobody's about to revive The Black and White Minstrel Show (and rightly so). —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

I can never remember how Patrick Troughton's surname is pronounced. TROW-ton? TROT-ton? It has that English-language monster "ough" in it: bough, cough, through, though, rough, etc. GBC 03:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

It's TROW-ton. Some fans refer to him as "The Mighty Trout", which should help you remember. (But we probably ought to have a pronounciation on the article page — someone who's better at IPA symbols than I am should do it.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree - also a pronunciation sound file. PMA 03:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Film or TV?

"Troughton's notable film roles include Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1954)" The Scarlet Pimpernel (1954) is a TV series according to IMDB. -- Proteus71 14 March 2006

[edit] cancer?

i read that at some point he had a lung removed due to lung cancer - is this true? PMA 16:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


-*he did have a large enough section of it removed from the exterior of the lung for it to be safe just to stay there without any further growth or causing any problems for his forseeable future, but retained both lungs-

[edit] Image choice

We ought to have an image in the "Doctor Who" section that reflects Troughton's time as the lead of the series. However, I think that the two images recently used to head that section are both from multi-Doctor serials: I'm pretty sure Image:Trougp03.jpg is from The Two Doctors, and I think Image:Trougp08.jpg is from The Three Doctors. Do we have a good image (say, the one with the 500-year diary?) that's unequivocally from the 1966–69 period? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] deleted my contribution

what i added was removed because the person who removed it didnt think that it was a big enough part of the character to even bother about, this is ridiculous! of course pats oversized fur coat IS a big part of his character in doctor who, it is what many people who watched him in the sixties remembers, that and the yeti, there really isnt alot about him on this website and there ought to be alot more! considering just who he was and just what he did, not just his work in doctor who but also outside of the program, in various other films and television stories over the years, the fur coat formed such a big part of him, and he mentioned it in countless interviews, so has his firends and co-stars from doctor who, as well as production,crew and some of the guests theyve had over the years, obviously the person who removed it knows extremely little about that part of the shows early history, only the basics are here, things that you can pick up from things more than likly downloaded off of the internet, from the myth makers dvd all about pat troughton and from various bits scattered accross you-tube.

perhaps the avdent of an autobiography would clear this up once and for all, to give more than a small amount of detail included here, but if you search through several internet sites then perhaps youll get a much larger image of patrick troughton, and just what he stood for, wha he ment to the show, his life, and his filmography, he ment so much more than seven paragraphs, much more. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hartnell114 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Troughton's health - sources?

Where does the information about Troughton's health come form ("never entirely robust" "refused to accept his doctor's advice" etc.)? Could someone please give any sources?

Wasn't he a smoker? Type 40 (talk) 21:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Heart attack [1] Type 40 (talk) 21:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Are there any pics of Pat in character? Type 40 (talk) 01:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)



[edit] Alternative Stage Name?

Richard Bartlam? where and when did he go by this name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.117.67 (talk) 03:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)