Maurice Colbourne
Birthday
1939/09/24
Day of death
1989/08/04 (49 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Also know as
Roger Middleton
Biography
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...Read more
Acting
(1982) Rating Notman
as ---
(1976) The Littlest Horse Thieves
as Luke Armstrong
(1970) Times For
as man
(1975) Gangsters
as John Kline
(1977) The Duellists
as Tall Second
(1981) Venom
as Sampson
(1980) Hawk the Slayer
as Axe Man 1
(1985) Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as SS Officer
(1979) Bloodline
as Jon Swinton
(1984) Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Lytton
(1985) Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
as Lytton
(1980) Dead Man's Kit
as Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl
(1970) Cry of the Banshee
as Villager
(1985) Howards' Way
as Tom Howard
(1963) Doctor Who
as Commander Lytton
(1979) Shoestring
as ---
(1981) The Day of the Triffids
as Jack Coker
(1972) Van der Valk
as Nick Scholtz
(1976) Gangsters
as ---
(1983) Johnny Jarvis
as Jake
(1963) Doctor Who
as Lytton
(1978) Return of the Saint
as Jed Blacket