The Avengers International Fan Forum

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Here are list of the performers who participated in The Avengers and who are currently alive and possibly alive.

I started this research from 2015 when I planned to do interviews with different people participating in the Avengers/TNA. The first person to be delivered was Patrick Macnee (the basics of the basics Very Happy

). Alan Hayes, Christine Stutz and me wrote him a special letter and thanks to Mona Morstein it was sent. Alas, Patrick died soon after. Sad

It was greatest mourning and the topic was postponed.

When I returned to this topic, there were some difficulties in working in this direction. Since I could not work alone due to my poor knowledge of English, there was a need to collaborate with someone who could edit the material into good English and skillfully edit the text itself for readers (person with a professional approach). At that time, Alan and I had different free schedules and we could not cooperate. Alan was the perfect editor in my opinion, and I postponed the topic again.

I still have it in the plans and last years I studied which Avengers/TNA people are with us, so that I would know with whom I could contact.

Frankly, some months ago I already tried to create contact with Chris Bunn, Annabella Heath and Roy Beck Jr., but none of them answered me. Well, maybe in the future other attempts will be more successful. Wink

The lists of Avengers performers are divided into several sections for comfort. Also shown selectively of performer pages on social networks.

(information will change regularly depending on the results of further research and events)

Any of your comments that can improve this list are always welcome.

Living actors and actresses (data for 2022)

Michael Beint (1925)
David Graham (1925)
Astor Sklair (1927) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008253547603
Joss Ackland (1928)
Pearl Catlin (1929) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079022508284
Gerald Harper (1929)
Colin Jeavons (1929)
Phillip Ross (1929)
Lionel Wheeler (1929)
John Woodvine (1929)
John Nettleton (1929)
John Cairney (1930)
Gary Watson (1930)
Michael Hunt (approx. 1930)
Ellen McIntosh (1931)
Vivian Pickles (1931)
Wilfred Grove (1931) https://www.facebook.com/wilfred.grove.1
Zia Mohyeddin (1931)
Kenneth Cope (1931)
Stanley Meadows (1931)
Brian Murphy (1932)
Murray Melvin (1932)
Edward de Souza (1932)
Roland Curram (1932)
Norman Bowler (1932)
Caroline Blakiston (1933)
Rhoda Lewis (1933)
Jeanette Sterke (1933)
Robert Gillespie (1933) https://twitter.com/RGillespieActor
Keith Baxter (1933)
Michael McStay (1933)
Donald Douglas (1933)
John Standing (1934) https://www.facebook.com/john.standing.5
Suzanne Lloyd (1934)
Christopher Benjamin (1934)
Vernon Dobtcheff (1934)
Michel Faure (1934) https://www.facebook.com/fauremic
David Burke (1934)
David Andrews (1935) https://www.facebook.com/davoidandroid
Delena Kidd (1935)
George Roubicek (1935)
Lucille Soong (1935) https://www.facebook.com/lucille.soong
Judy Parfitt (1935)
Wanda Ventham (1935)
Julian Glover (1935)
Ewan Hooper (1935)
Donald Sutherland (1935)
Julie Stevens (1936)
Marian Diamond (1936) https://www.facebook.com/marian.diamond.5
Andrea Lawrence (1936) https://twitter.com/andrialawrence6
Brian Blessed (1936) https://twitter.com/brianblessed
Kenneth Farrington (1936) https://www.facebook.com/kenneth.farrington.351
Kenneth Colley (1937)
Delia Corrie (1937)
Patricia Denys (1937)
Ann Saker (1937)
Anne Cunningham (1937)
William Gaunt (1937)
Lyndall Goodman (1937)
Steven Berkoff (1937) https://www.facebook.com/steven.berkoff.7
Maria Machado (1937)
Tony Caunter (1937)
Edward Fox (1937)
Margo Andrew (approx. 1937)
Miranda Connell (1938)
Christopher Robbie (1938)
Penelope Lee (1938)
Felicity Peel (1938) https://www.facebook.com/flick.rea
Tina Packer (1938) https://www.facebook.com/tina.packer.9
David Kernan (1938) https://twitter.com/mrdavidkernan
Patrick Mower (1938)
Michael Culver (1938) https://www.facebook.com/michael.culver.948
Jonathan Elsom (1938)
John Savident (1938)
Tom Kempinski (1938)
Sheila Hammond (approx. 1938) https://www.facebook.com/sheila.hammond.9022
Veronica Strong (1938)
George Innes (1938)
Philip Dunbar (born in period 1939-41)
Angela Thorne (1939)
Jennie Linden (1939) https://www.facebook.com/jennielindenofficial/
Annette Andre (1939) https://www.facebook.com/annette.andre.50
Gillian Barclay (1939) https://www.facebook.com/gilly.greenhill
Barbara Roscoe (1939) https://twitter.com/BarbaraRoscoe7
John Cleese (1939) https://www.facebook.com/thejohncleese/
Anne Rutter (1939)
Peter Bourne (1939)
Ray Brooks (1939)
Geoffrey Whitehead (1939)
Valerie Sarruf (1940)
Angela Douglas (1940) https://www.facebook.com/ImAngelaDouglas/
Irene Bradshaw (1940) https://www.facebook.com/irene.bradshaw.33
Michael Sarne (1940) https://twitter.com/SarneMike
Joanna Wake (1940) https://www.facebook.com/joanna.west.754
Robert Morris (1940)
Penelope Keith (1940)
Beth Owen (approx. 1940) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008093239443
William Wilde (1940) https://www.facebook.com/hornetskensington
Julian Chagrin (1940) https://www.facebook.com/julian.chagrin
Caron Gardner (1941) https://www.facebook.com/caron.a.gardner.1
Anneke Wills (1941) https://www.facebook.com/annekewillsofficial/
Juliet Harmer (1941)
Jane Merrow (1941) https://www.facebook.com/seejaneact
Lucinda Curtis (1941)
Neil Stacy (1941)
Terry Eliot (1941)
Sally Smith (1942)
Ilona Rodgers (1942)
Carol Cleveland (1942)
Aimi MacDonald (1942) https://www.facebook.com/aimi.macdonald.9
Nigel Rideout (1942) https://www.facebook.com/nigel.rideout.3
David Quilter (1942)
Jennifer Clulow (1942)
Michael Elwyn (1942)
Robert Sidaway (1942)
Dora Reisser (1942)
Philippe Monnet (born in period 1942-44)
Polly Perkins (1943)
Jennifer White (1943)
Edina Ronay (1943) https://twitter.com/EdinaRonay
Esther Anderson (1943) https://www.facebook.com/esther.anderson.376
Valerie Leon (1943) https://twitter.com/thevalerieleon
Kevork Malikyan (1943) https://twitter.com/MalikyanKevork
Ian Ogilvy (1943) https://www.facebook.com/iogilvy
Julian Holloway (1944)
Julie Samuel (1944) https://www.facebook.com/julie.samuel2
Nigel Lambert (1944)
Ann Sidney (1944) https://twitter.com/AnnSidney1
Gabrielle Drake (1944)
Isla Blair (1944) https://twitter.com/IslaBlair
Jennifer Croxton (1944)
Dave Anderson (1945) https://www.facebook.com/dave.anderson.52493
Denise Buckley (1945)
Charlotte Rampling (1946)
Wendy Allnutt (1946) https://www.facebook.com/wendy.allnutt.9
Karen Ford (1946) https://www.facebook.com/karen.ford.5473
Gloria Connell (1946)
Linda Thorson (1947) https://twitter.com/Thor1847
Lucy Fleming (1947)
Dane Howell (1948)
Chris Chittell (1948) https://www.facebook.com/chris.chittell.1
Christian Holder (1949) https://www.facebook.com/christian.holder.94
Elizabeth Robillard (1958) https://www.facebook.com/LizRobillardUK
Marjorie Keys

Most likely living actors and actresses on 2022

Philip Guard (1928)
Sarah Lawson (1928)
Helen Lindsay (1929)
Malou Pantera (1930)
Ruth Trouncer (1930)
Sylvia Bidmead (1932)
Hazel Graeme (1932)
Laurie Leigh (1932)
Margaret Whiting (1933)
David Sumner (1933)
Madeleine Kasket (1934)
Jacqueline Jones (1934)
Peter Mackriel (1934)
Michael Danvers-Walker (1935)
Yvonne Shima (approx. 1935)
Gillian Lewis (1935)
Joanne Dainton (1935)
Jon Laurimore (1936)
Ann Taylor (1936)
Charlotte Selwyn (1936)
Terence Lodge (1936)
Virginia Stride (1936)
Jayne Sofiano (1936) https://www.facebook.com/jayne.tycer
Justine Lord (1937)
Marijke Mann (1937)
Sidonie Bond (1937)
Dyson Lovell (1937)
Carole Boyer (1937)
Jeanne Roland (1937)
Peter Jesson (1937)
Makki Marseilles (approx. 1938)
Lynn Taylor (1938) https://www.facebook.com/waterlily1
John Porter-Davison (1938)
Zorenah Osborne (1938)
Sally Nesbitt (1938)
Ann Bell (1938)
Ann Hamilton (1939)
Paul Grist (1939)
Gail Starforth (1939)
Penelope Horner (1939)
Jonathan Burn (1939)
Marina Martin (1939)
Susan Travers (1939)
Gillian McCutcheon (1939) https://twitter.com/Gillian_McCutch
Katy Wild (1940)
June Murphy (1940)
Janine Gray (1940)
Joanna Jones (approx. 1940)
Unity Bevis-Jones (1940)
Sheila Fearn (1940)
Mark London (1940) https://www.facebook.com/mark.london.796774
Isobel Black (1942)
Nita Lorraine (1942)
Ric Young (1944)
Mandy Miller (1944)
Sandra Tallent (1944)
Katya Wyeth (1948)
David Baron

Possibly living actors and actresses on 2022

Teddy Kiss (approx. 1906)
Tony Thawnton (1920)
Colin Ellis (approx. 1924)
Clifford Cox (approx. 1926)
Jonathan Scott (1927)
Gordon Gardner (approx. 1928)
Sheila Robins (1928)
Diane Bester (approx. 1929)
Paul Anil (approx. 1929)
Rowena Gregory (1929)
Murray Hayne (1931)
John Kelland (1931)
Alan Crouch (1932)
Michael Harrison (approx. 1932)
Colette Wilde (approx. 1932)
Michael Wynne (1932)
Jean Woo Sam (approx. 1933)
Bernard Brown (1933)
Nina Marriott (approx. 1934)
Joy Webster (approx. 1934)
Catherine Ellison (approx. 1935)
Joyce Wong Chong (approx. 1935)
David Gregory (1935)
Gillian Muir (1935)
Griffith Davies (approx. 1936)
Heidi Erich (1936)
Douglas Sheldon (1936)
William Swan (1937)
Howard Daley (approx. 1937)
Anthea Wyndham (approx. 1937)
Judith Bruce (1937)
Terence Sewards (1938)
Carole Gray (approx. 1938)
John Lowe (approx. 1938)
Pauline Shepherd (1938)
Didi Sullivan (approx. 1939)
Elisabeth Murray (approx. 1939)
Katy Greenwood (approx. 1939)
June Thody (1939)
Yole Marinelli (approx. 1940)
Pamela Conway (1940)
Nicole Shelby (approx. 1941)
Janice Hoy (approx. 1941)
Stephanie Lacey (approx. 1941)
Susan Castle (1941)
Dawn Beret (1941)
Yvonne Walsh (1941)
Sarah Maxwell (1942)
Jacky Allouis (1942)
William Ellis (1943)
Fiona Hartford (1944)
Carmen Dene (1944)
Rhonda Parker (1947)
Stanley M. Ayers
Robert G. Bahey
Redmond Bailey
Basil Beale
Graeme Bruce
Raymond Burke
Lionel Burns
John Church
Ian Clark
John Cobner
Steve Cory
Douglas Cummings
Achillies Georgiou
Paul Gillard
Brian Stan Haines
Vincent Harding
David Hart
Ian Hobbs
Jerry Jardin
Paul Kidd
Mike Lewin
Alex McDonald
Eric McCaine
MiÑhael Moyer
Philip Mosca
Donald Oliver
Frank Peters
David Richards
Anthony Rogers
Gary Woolf
Jerry Lee Yen
Richard Young
Sarmukh Singh
Thi Ha
Valerie Bell
Penny Bird
Emma Cochrane
Christina Ferdinando
Susan Franklin
Anne Godfrey
Jean Gregory
Robin Tolhurst
Carol Ward
Margaret Neale
Bernice Rassin
Rosemarie Reede
Mia Karam
Joan Mane
Cecilia May
Amanda Reeves
Anna Shan-Khoo

Living musicians on 2022

Dave Lee (1926)
Max Cherrie (1929) https://www.facebook.com/max.cherrie.9
Sterling Betancourt (1930)

Most likely living dancer on 2022

Gillian Bowden (1940)

Possibly living dancers on 2022

Fred Evans
Roy Gunson
Bill Haydn
Maggie Lee
George Macrae
Pat Spencer

Living extras on 2022

Pamela Plant (1927) https://www.facebook.com/pamelaplant/
Don Archell (1932) https://www.facebook.com/don.archell
Derek Chafer (1935) https://www.facebook.com/derek.chafer
Glen Stuart (1935)
Chris Webb (1937)
Les Conrad
Peter Roy https://www.facebook.com/peter.roy.52091
Tina Simmons https://www.facebook.com/tina.simmons.7758

Most likely living extras on 2022

Oliver Tomlin (1923)
Paul Mead (1934)
Tony O'Leary (1938)
Melvyn Mordant (1939)
Steve Morley (1953) https://www.facebook.com/steve.morley.96592
Malcolm Johns

Possibly living extras on 2022

Colin Fry (1921)
Derek Hunt (1932)
Rosalind Mendleson (1941)
Veronica Gardiner (maybe 1941)
Caroline Hall (maybe 1942)
Rosemary Chalmers (approx. 1945)
Richard Atherton
John Bristow
Fran Brown
Bill Burns
Robin Burns
John Cabot
Chrsitine Callum
Tony Castleton
Eugene Che
Eric Chung
Mickey Clarke
Robert Clarke
Valerie Cockx
Maurice Connor
Douglas Cooper
James Darwin
Michael Dempsey
Paul Duval
Monica Dwyer
Paul Eden
Ivor Ellis
Peter Fenton
Vince Fleming
Denis Forsyth
Valerie Gold
Jack Grossman
Peter Hannon
Michael Hamer
Helen Hancock
Hubert Hill
Glen Holloway
Ned Hood
John Howard
Philip Johns
Robin Kildare
Perry Leigh
Dan Lester
Umberto Lombardi
David Low
Ned Lynch
John Lynn
Danny Lyons
Liz Mason
Brian McNeil
Jack Niles
George Oliver
Gerry Paris
Bill Richards
Peter Rigby
Bill Risley
John Roland
Jack Rolands
Jack Ross
Peggy Scott Sanders
Mike Sankar
Maurice Selwyn
John Sefton
Jeff Shane
Sadie Slade
Joan Smith
Esme Smythe
Freddy Sommers
Bill Strange
Barbara Straight
Harry Tierney
Hein Viljoen
Dorothy Watson
John Sackville West
Philip Webb
Eric Wetherell
John Wilder

Living stunt performers on 2022

Ray Austin (1932)
Dinny Powell (1932)
Billy Cornelius (1934)
Terence Mountain (1936) https://www.facebook.com/terence.mountain
Sadie Eddon (1936)
Bill Westley (approx. 1939)
Paul Weston (1940) https://www.facebook.com/paul.weston.102
Annabelle Heath (1941) https://www.facebook.com/annabelle.heath.5
Gillian Aldam (1941) https://www.facebook.com/gillaldam
Valentino Musetti (1943)
Cyd Child (1944) https://www.facebook.com/chris.gallie.5
Rocky Taylor (1945) https://twitter.com/StuntmanRocky

Most likely living stunt performers on 2022

Terence Maidment (1932) https://www.facebook.com/terry.maidment.12
Del Baker (approx. 1934)
Michael Stevens https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005894790254

Possibly living stunt performers on 2022

Bill Reed (maybe 1923 or 1924)
Bernard Barnsley (maybe 1933)
Jenny Lefre (maybe 1944)
Frank Barringer
David Brandon
Terry Brewer
Andre Cameron
Sadie Evan
Joe Farrar
George Fisher
Ken Hall
Lynn Marshall
Brian Mason
Jenny Pink
Dave Wilding

Most likely living person as self on 2022

Elizabeth Agnes Collins (1945)

Possibly living persons as self on 2022

Diane Keys
Elaine Little

Living "out the screen" performer on 2022

John Styles (1934) puppeteer

Living stand-in on 2022

Decima Rickard (1941) https://www.facebook.com/decimadel

Possibly living stand-in on 2022

Liz Mitchell

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Unconfirmed and unidentified

Living actresses and actor on 2022

Sylvia Syms (1934)
Tim Goodman (1938)
Judy Huxtable (1942)

Possibly living actress on 2022

Patsy Fagan (maybe 1944)

Living extras on 2022

Virginia Lester (1942)
Jill Goldston (1943)
Roy Beck Jr (1952) https://www.facebook.com/royston.beck

Most likely living extras on 2022

Patrick McCarville (1936)
Marian Collins (1938)
Colin Burbidge (1940)
Elaine Rickard (1943)
Steven Barnes (1944)
Clive Moss (1955) https://www.facebook.com/clive.moss.96

Possibly living extras on 2022

Scott Tyler (1943)
Hani Borelle (1944)
Trevor Barrie (maybe 1944)
Laurel Brown (maybe 1945)
Robert O'Keefe (maybe 1947)
Elaine Duffett (1948)
Norman Brenner
Tony Ellis
Dave Larner
Katherine Marsden
Shane Younger
Janet Fairhead

Living stuntman on 2022

Steve Emerson (1934)

Possibly living stand-ins on 2022

Joe Bartlett
Brian Chutter
Don Webb

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Those who were attached to the filming, but were not used or were not included in the final cut

Jimmy Lodge (stuntman, born approx. in 1924)
Leslie Soden (pianist double for Nigel Davenport in the episode Split!)
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darren · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:31 am Post subject:

Wow, that's a list!

I admire your dedication and thoroughness. It's comforting to see the names of those still with us.

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Yes, Darren, it's very nice to see that many performers are still with us. The last one I wrote in the section Living actors and actresses (data for 2019) was Barbara Shelley - I couldn’t hear about her for last years.
Last her message (by 24 March 2016) on Twitter page was following:

Still in hospital and feeling rather down... Your thoughts and prayers would be much appreciated! Thank you everyone!

This year she is planned for London Film & Comic Con – Summer (2019). Wink

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Ian Wegg · Have Fingers... Will Type! Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 436

Your dedication should be applauded. That is a very impressive piece of work, thank you for posting it.

mrs_emma_peel · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:17 am Post subject:

Extraordinary, meticulous research. Many thanks Denis Smile

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dissolute · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:27 pm Post subject:

Dave Lee is still alive but I haven't heard from Spike Heatley in a long time. I dropped Andrea Lawrence a line the other day but haven't heard back yet.
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http://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/
Every episode from 1961 to 1977 plus more trivia than you can shake a brolly at.

Allard · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:03 am Post subject:

Thanks for doing the work on compiling this list. It's longer than I would have expected by the way.

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Update:

Zia Mohyeddin was moved from 1933 to 1931 year of birth.
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Huge loss, dear Avengers fans. Crying or Very sad

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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Johnny Laycock (b. March 1925), multi-instrumentalist and theatre agent, who played Izzy Pound in Avengers episode The Interrogators (1969), added to the section "Living musicians (data for 2019)".

He was alive on February 2019. Last place of residence: Costa del Sol, Spain.

Rebecca, Johnny Laycock's daughter, Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/becky.mcintyre.142
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Update for Living actors and actresses (data for 2019)

Philip Anthony

Born approx. 1930

Real surname: Johnson.
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Update for paragraph "Most likely living actors and actresses on 2019"

Frank Windsor

Actually born 1928. Confirmed!
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

While I was waiting for DNS settings of registrator (to work on resuscitation of Steedumbrella, moved to new hosting), I decided to look here. As result: a new study is done and now the topic is called "The Avengers: living and possibly living performers for 2020".

In addition to a fresh look at the sheets, the changes include:

1) Yvonne Shima move from year of birth approx. 1941 to approx. 1935.
2) Paul Anil move to year of birth approx. 1929.

Therefore, the information below is called into question:

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Anil#cite_note-0
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mousemeat · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:10 pm Post subject:

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

I'm working on a new section titled Unconfirmed and unidentified right now and studied that actress and choreographer Heather Seymour (it's mentioned in Spotlight, that Heather participated in The Avengers) died.

Tribute to Heather Seymour, 1956 - 2020:

https://heatherseymour.muchloved.com/Gallery/Pictures

Born: 15 May 1956.

It is also revealed that Heather was landlady of the pub, which is in Dundridge, near Swanmore, from 2002 to 2012.
She had spent more than two years battling lung cancer and died at the age of 63 on May 1, 2020.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/business/consumer/hampshire-bowman-pub-landlord-honours-predecessor-his-post-lockdown-haircut-2940920

Duncan Willis, creator of replica puppets and props, twitted in 2017:

Heather Seymour - lovely lady. She had been a child actress and worked with Roger Moore in an episode of 'The Saint'.

The ex-Landlady of my fave pub was a choreographer on that film (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)...

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22heather%20seymour%22%20actress&src=typed_query

IMDb page:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786823/
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mousemeat · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:54 pm Post subject:

denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Oh, I just haven't added a list of her works according to Spotlight. Wink

Looks Heather appeared no less works than Steve Morley.

1965
A High Wind in Jamaica (filming in 1964)
Darling (filming in 1964)

Screenshot from Darling

Up Jumped a Swagman
The Nanny

1966
Sky West and Crooked (filming in 1965)
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (filming in 1965)

1972
Anne of Green Gables (TV series)
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

I'm finished work on the new section Unconfirmed and unidentified.
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denis rigg · A Touch of Brimstone Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 2617

Updated. Added the Facebook page of Clive Moss, who played in The Avengers according to Spotlight, but was not identified on screen.

https://www.facebook.com/clive.moss.96
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