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Maurice Colbourne
Actor
Died August 4, 1989 (49 years)
Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor who specialised in playing villains and hard men until 1985, when he took the key role of Tom Howard in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way. Colbourne was born Roger Middleton but took his stage name after reading about the death of actor Maurice Colbourne who shared the same birthday as he did. Colbourne's biggest success in the 1970s was as the lead in the crime drama series Gangsters. In the 80s he starred in Johnny Jarvis and the acclaimed adaptation of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel, The Day of the Triffids. Staying with sci-fi, he had a recurring guest role in Doctor Who as the mercenary Lytton, playing opposite the fifth and sixth doctors (Peter Davison and Colin Baker) in adventures featuring the timelords deadliest foes; the Daleks and the Cybermen. But it was the leading role in Howards' Way that he will perhaps best be remembered for. He played Tom Howard until 1989, when he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack. The show ended a year later.
Filmography
| 2012 | Nice or Nasty?: The Making of Vengeance on Varos · as Lytton |
| 2009 | Cybermen · as Lytton |
| 2008 | Trials and Tribulations · as John Kline |
| 1985 | Howards' Way (TV Series) · as Tom Howard |
| 1985 | Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil · as Ss Officer |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks · as Lytton |
| 1983 | Johnny Jarvis (TV Series) · as Jake |
| 1981 | Venom · as Sampson |
| 1981 | The Day of the Triffids (TV Series) · as Jack Coker |
| 1980 | Hawk the Slayer · as Axe Man 1 |
| 1980 | Dead Man's Kit · as Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl |
| 1979 | Shoestring (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Bloodline · as Jon Swinton |
| 1978 | Return of the Saint (TV Series) · as Jed Blacket |
| 1978 | Strangers (TV Series) · as John Rutter |
| 1978 | Armchair Thriller (TV Series) · as Lieutenant Commander Kobahl |
| 1977 | The Duellists · as Feraud's Second |
| 1976 | Gangsters (TV Series) |
| 1976 | The Littlest Horse Thieves · as Luke Armstrong |
| 1972 | Van der Valk (TV Series) · as Nick Scholtz |
| 1971 | The Onedin Line (TV Series) · as Charles Marston |
| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) · as John Kline |
| 1970 | Times For · as Man |
| 1970 | Cry of the Banshee · as Villager |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Commander Lytton |