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Richard Franklin
Actor
Born January 15, 1936Died December 25, 2023 (87 years)
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist. Principally a stage actor, he also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British television programmes, including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm, and he portrayed Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974, returning to the role on a number of occasions both on television and in Doctor Who spin-off media.
Filmography
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · as Engineer |
| 2015 | |
| 2013 | Twilight of the Gods · as Richard Wagner |
| 2013 | Being a Girl · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 2009 | The First Days of Spring · as Elder Ethan |
| 2008 | Chemical Wedding · as Dean |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 2005 | Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction · as Capt Yates |
| 2004 | Serial Thrillers · as Captain Yates |
| 2001 | |
| 1995 | Catherine Cookson's The Gambling Man (TV Series) · as Gambler |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS · as Capt. Mike Yates |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time · as Mike Yates |
| 1993 | Harry (1993) (TV Series) · as Solicitor |
| 1992 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: The Five Doctors · as Captain Yates |
| 1981 | The Borgias (1981) (TV Series) · as Party Guest |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 (TV Series) · as Federation Trooper |
| 1974 | Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders · as Mike Yates |
| 1973 | Doctor Who: The Green Death · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 1972 | Emmerdale (TV Series) · as Denis Rigg |
| 1972 | The Pathfinders (TV Series) · as Flying Officer Bundy |
| 1972 | Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks · as Captain Yates |
| 1971 | Doctor Who: The Dæmons · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 1971 | Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 1971 | Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 1970 | Little Women (1970) (TV Series) · as Jack Scott |
| 1968 | The Fiction-Makers · as 2nd Guard |
| 1964 | Crossroads (1964) (TV Series) · as Joe Townsend |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Captain Mike Yates |
| 1962 | |
| 1955 | Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) · as 2nd Pbx Operator |