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Arthur Blake 1929 to 2001

Lived in Lily Terrace, New Washington, son of colliery engineer, Robert and Elizabeth. Attended Brandy Row school. 
Dropped out of King’s College Cambridge for RADA, and a career on the stage and TV

Film
Quatermass 2 1957 Girl Stroke Boy 1971 Male Bait 1971 The Cherry Picker 1974 Little Dorrit 1987 (IMDb)

Television- Over 50 appearances (IMDb)
Saturday Playhouse 1959 No Hiding Place 1959-1961 ITV Television Playhouse 1961 Z-Cars 1962 The Dickie Henderson Show 1963-1965 Crane 1965 Doctor Who 1965 Frontier 1968 Crime Buster 1968 Theatre Date 1969 World in Ferment 1969 Budgie 1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre 1971 Hine 1971 Bel Ami 1971 War and Peace 1972 The Edwardians 1972 Heil Caesar! 1973 Thursday's Child 1973 The Stars Look Down 1975 Red Letter Day 1976 Striker 1976 Headmaster 1977 Armchair Thriller 1978 The Professionals 1978 Born and Bred 1980 Strangers 1980 When the Boat Comes In 1981 BBC2 Playhouse 1981 Funny Man 1981 Holding the Fort 1982 The Agatha Christie Hour 1982 The World About Us 1982 Rumpole of the Bailey 1983-1988 Mr. Palfrey of Westminster 1984 Bergerac 1985 Murder of a Moderate Man 1985 Sorry! 1986 First Among Equals 1986 The Bill 1986-1989 A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery 1987 Don't Wait Up 1988 Double First 1988 Star Trap 1988[4] London's Burning 1989 Campion 1990 Unnatural Causes 1993 Under the Hammer 1994 No Bananas 1996