Wednesday 23 February 2011

Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Hmmm.... Jenkins!
Jenkins: Sah!
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Chap with wings there. Five rounds rapid.

Actor Mr Nicholas Courtney, best known for playing Brigadier General Alastair Lethbridge Stewart on Doctor Who when it was still Doctor Who and not a jumped-up sex farce, has passed on at the age of 81 after a brief illness.

I understand that at his funeral there will be an honour guard firing five rounds rapid.

6 comments:

Fruitbat44 said...

RIP The Brig.

Nicholas Courtney really made the role work. I do recall an interview with him where he said he didn't want The Brig to look a twit, and he didn't.

Simon Ross said...

Such a shame, great memories of Nicholas Courtney during the Pertwee years :-(

Bryan said...

Good old Brig! I may have to watch Inferno tonight - that's the Pertwee one with the evil alternate universe Brig and the sexy alternate universe Liz Shaw.

eon said...

He will be missed.

cheers (after a fashion)

eon

jayessell said...

What episode (and what was the circumstance) in which he got to meet himself?
Was that referencing an earlier Doctor?

By the way you Whovians...

What was the maximum number of Doctors simultaneously on set?

Bryan said...

Hmmn...well, it wasn't The Three Doctors, because Mr. Hartnell was pretty sick by then and only appeared in brief film clips (yet he still managed to lay the verbal smackdown on the two young pups who followed him) and you did specify "on set."

So, I'm going to say "five" in The Five Doctors, even though Hartnell had passed on by then and was played by a different guy. Of course, most of that was not shot on a set but in the BBC Quarry, so I'm stumped.