William Lucas (actor)

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William Lucas
Born	William Thomas Clucas (1925-04-14)14 April 1925 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died	8 July 2016(2016-07-08) (aged 91)
Years active	1950–2005

William Thomas Clucas (14 April 1925 – 8 July 2016), better known as William Lucas, was a British film, theatre, radio, and television actor. Before he became an actor, he was a commercial traveller, laundry hand, cook, farm labourer, and long-distance lorry driver. He had begun his stage career by the summer of 1950 in Chesterfield and was still active in the theatre in late 1990 in Run for Your Wife. His first film acting role was in the film Portrait of Alison (1955), and he later appeared in many Hammer Film Productions such as The Shadow of the Cat. He is probably best known for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–74) as Dr. James Gordon and as Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes (BBC 1968).

He has also appeared in The Bill, Doctor Who, Last of the Summer Wine, and long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

TV shows

• The Adventures of Robin Hood - "The Betrothal" (series 1:1955) & "Knight Errant" (series 3:(1958)
• Coronation Street as Judge Parrish
• Eldorado as Stanley Webb
• On the Up as Sir Douglas Hoyle
• Doctor Who - Frontios as Mr Range (1984)
• The Adventures of Black Beauty as Dr. James Gordon, a role he later reprised in The New Adventures of Black Beauty
• The Spoils of War as George Hayward
• Dixon of Dock Green as Philip Chapman
• The Avengers
• Sherlock Holmes (1965) as Inspector Lestrade ("A Study in Scarlet")
• Doctor at Large (1971) as QC Mortimer Turnbull
• Danger Man
• 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)

Feature films

• Portrait of Alison (1955)
• X the Unknown (1956)
• Up in the World (1956)
• High Flight (1957)
• Breakout (1959)
• The Professionals (1960)
• Crack in the Mirror (1960)
• Sons and Lovers (1960)
• Touch of Death (1961)
• Payroll (1961)
• The Devil's Daffodil (1961)
• The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
• 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)
• The Plague Dogs (voice only) (1982)

External links

• William Lucas at IMDb