William Lucas (British actor)

William Lucas (born William Clucas, 14 April 1925) is a British film and television actor. His first acting role was in the film Portrait of Alison (1955), and later appeared in many Hammer Film Productions such as Shadow of the Cat. He is probably best known for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–74) as Dr. James Gordon.

More recently he has appeared in The Bill, Doctor Who, Last of the Summer Wine and long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.^[1]

TV shows

• The Adventures of Robin Hood - 'The Betrothal' (series 1:1955) & 'Knight Errant' (series 3:(1958)
• Coronation Street ITV as Judge Parrish
• Eldorado BBC as Stanley Webb
• On the Up as Sir Douglas Hoyle
• Doctor Who - 'Frontios' BBC as Mr Range (1984)
• The Adventures of Black Beauty as Dr. James Gordon
• The Spoils of War as George Hayward
• Dixon of Dock Green as Philip Chapman
• The Avengers
• Doctor at Large (1971) as QC Mortimer Turnbull
• The Prisoner
• The Adventures of William Tell as Kramer
• Z Cars as Det. Insp. Carter
• The Infamous John Friend (BBC) starred as John Friend
• Sir Francis Drake as Count Julio
• Last of the Summer Wine ( 2003 )

Filmography

• Portrait of Alison (1955)
• X the Unknown (1957)
• Breakout (1959)
• Crack in the Mirror (1960)
• Sons and Lovers (1960)
• Touch of Death (1961) as Pete Mellor
• Payroll (1961)
• Shadow of the Cat (1961) as Jacob Venable
• The Very Edge (1962)
• Bitter Harvest (1963)
• The Marked One (1963)
• Dateline Diamonds (1966)
• Night of the Big Heat (1967)
• Tower of Evil (1972)
• Man at the Top (1973)
• Operation Daybreak (1975)

References

External links

• William Lucas (British actor) at the Internet Movie Database