Maurice Colbourne

Known for ActingBorn 1939-09-24Died 1989-08-04Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gangsters

Gangsters

Times For

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Doctor Who

Shoestring

Johnny Jarvis

Strangers

The Duellists

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

Rating Notman

Return of the Saint

The Littlest Horse Thieves

Play for Today

The Day of the Triffids

Van der Valk

Howards' Way

Venom

Cry of the Banshee

Churchill's People

Bloodline

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Hawk the Slayer

Dead Man's Kit

Killers

Jesus of Nazareth