Ian Chesterton | A Tribute to William Russell (1924 - 2024)

📽️ Ian Chesterton | A Tribute to William Russell (1924 - 2024)

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•• William Russell Enoch (November 19th, 1924 - June 3rd, 2024) ••
"London 1965!" A Doctor Who Legend. Goodnight Chesterton.

William Russell passed away Monday, 3rd June 2024.
Sending our thoughts to William's friends and family.

William Russell Enoch was an English actor, whose career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades. In 1963, he became part of the original lead cast of BBC's Doctor Who, playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton, the Doctor's first male companion, opposite William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, and Maureen O'Brien as Vicki; from the show's first episode back in 1963 until 1965. After leaving Coronation Street in 1992, Russell had maintained his association with Doctor Who, having lent his voice as a narrator to several of the audiobook releases of the lost 1960s episodes. In 2013, the BBC produced An Adventure In Space and Time, a docudrama depicting the creation and early days of Doctor Who, as part of the programme's fiftieth anniversary celebrations - Russell himself had a cameo role, playing a BBC Commissionaire named Harry. The same year, Russell portrayed both Ian and the First Doctor in the Big Finish audio play The Light At The End, produced to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary; aged 88, he became the oldest person to portray the Doctor, a record he held until March 2023. In his later years, he continued his association with Doctor Who and returned as Ian for a 2022 cameo in "The Power Of The Doctor", 57 years after the character left, which won him a Guinness World Record for the longest gap between TV appearances. Aside from Doctor Who, Russell achieved prominence as the title role in the ITV television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956 - 1957); his film roles included The Man Who Never Was (1956), The Great Escape (1963) and Superman (1978); and he appeared as Ted Sullivan in Coronation Street in 1992.

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