Creator / Victor Maddern

One of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema.

"I only ever had one or two days' work on those very funny films. Going into a long-running team show is a frightening experience and so it was that each time I was lucky enough to be invited to play in a Carry On, I always arrived at the studio with a certain amount of trepidation."

Victor Jack Maddern, (16 March 1928 — 22 June 1993), was a British actor.

He trained at the RADA after his time serving in World War II. His first screen appearance came in Seven Days to Noon as a soldier tasked to shoot a scientist and two years later, he appeared in one of his earliest stage roles, Sam Weller in The Trial of Mr Pickwick.

For the rest of his career, Maddern was a familiar face in films and TV, often Typecast as military men. He had memorable roles in Blood of the Vampire, I'm All Right Jack, Please Turn Over, five Carry On films, Circus of Fear, and a Missing Episode of Dixon of Dock Green, notable for a surviving outtake reel where Maddern repeatedly mispronounces "Dock Green Nick" as "Dock Green Dick".

On the side, he ran a script printing business, opened a school for public speaking, and devoted much time to working for charity.

He died of a brain tumour at the age of 65.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• Sailor of the King (1953) — Signalman Willy "Misery" Earnshaw
• Saint Joan (1957) — English Soldier
• Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) — Parachute Training Instructor (Uncredited Role)
• Dunkirk (1958) — Merchant Seaman
• Please Turn Over (1959) — Smithy
• Sink the Bismarck! (1960) — Able Seaman
• Carry On Constable (1960) — Detective Sergeant Liddell, CID
• Watch Your Stern (1960) — Sailor Fishing for Bicycle
• Exodus (1960) — Sergeant
• Carry On Regardless (1961) — Sinister Passenger
• Raising the Wind (1961) — Removal Man
• The Longest Day (1962) — Camp Cook (Uncredited Role)
• Carry On Spying (1964) — Milchmann
• Carry On Cleo (1964) — Sergeant Major
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) — Taxi Driver
• Circus of Fear (1966) — Mason
• The Lost Continent (1968) — Mate
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) — Junkman
• The Magic Christian (1969) — Hot Dog Vender
• Cromwell (1970) — Executioner (Uncredited Role)
• Steptoe and Son (1972) — Chauffeur
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) — Man in Launderette
• Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992) — Old Gentleman Raven

Series

• The Adventures of Robin Hood, episode "The Charm Pedlar" (1960) — Hugo
• Bonanza, episode "A Passion for Justice" (1963) — Dan Stoker
• Perry Mason, episode "The Case of the Floating Stones" (1963) — Gilbert Tyrell
• The Avengers, episode "The Thirteenth Hole" (1966) — Jackson
• The Saint, 2 episodes:
  • "The Fast Women" (1967) — Enrico Montesino
  • "The Scales of Justice" (1968) — Jim Cowdry
• Dixon of Dock Green, 4 episodes:
  • "The Witness" (1967) — Fred Hall
  • "Obsession" (1969) — Jimmy Lester
  • "Jig-Saw" (1971) — Forbes
  • "It's a Gift" (1975) — Orrie Heppledene
• The Prisoner, episode "Hammer Into Anvil" (1967) — Bandmaster
• Doctor Who, 6-episode story "Fury from the Deep" (1968) — Robson
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), episode "A Sentimental Journey" (1970) — Detective Sergeant Watts
• Carry on Laughing!, 3 episodes:
  • "Orgy and Bess" (1975) — Todd
  • "The Nine Old Cobblers" (1975) — Charlie
  • "Under the Round Table" (1975) — Sir Osis
• Miss Marple, episode "The Moving Finger Part 2" (1985) — Police Constable Johnson
• Screen Two, episode "Defrosting the Fridge" (1989) — Barney
• The Bill, episode "Addresses" (1990) — Mr. Grant
• Screen One, episode "Sweet Nothing" (1990) — Frankie
• EastEnders, 1 episode (1990) — Stanley

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