Philip Madoc was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and attended Twyn School. He became interested in acting when he was a teenager. He studied at the University of Vienna and pursued a theatrical career by attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. During the 1960s, he became a familiar face on British television, often cast in sinister roles due ...
[on his guest appearances in two hugely popular Doctor Who (1963) serials, Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode Seven (1969) and Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius: Part One (1976)] I'm getting to realise how popular that a couple of the series that I did as the guest villain or whatever, how popular they were. Now I'm realising it and there are a couple which I watched them myself not long ago and I was delighted...somehow I'd expected them to show an age and they haven't done that. They're sparkling. They're my words, I'm saying them, so I'm the best critic in a way but I was surprised to feel their quality. So whoever wrote them and however we delivered them, it's still of a standard and that's marvellous because you realise it may have been 20-30 years ago but the quality is there.
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[on The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)] A great experience. A great company to work with. Very gifted actors and I thought a splendid production right through, working from a script that was so clever as well, you know, you just did it really, it spoke for itself. So all my memories of those days are a good part of my life.
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Certainly initially I rarely played heroes because there was still this tradition that heroes were six foot tall. Certainly if you had a voice that wasn't high and dark eyes then there was a feeling that we were set out to play the villains of this world. I didn't ever argue with that, because they were more or less the best parts.
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Considered for Dr. Armstrong and Dr. Bukovsky in Lifeforce (1985).
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On the list of possibles for Johnny Ringo in Doctor Who: The Gunfighters.
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He spoke several foreign languages fluently (including, he liked to say, English), and played his first film role, in "Operation Crossbow", entirely in German, just as his second film role, in "A High Wind In Jamaica" was mostly in Spanish.
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Passed away at Michael Sobell Hospice in Northwood, Hertfordshire, England at 9am.
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(July 17 2001) Awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glamorgan.
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