George Layton

George Layton
Birth date:	2 March 1943
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Stefan Lehne, Louis Markell, Technician Penn
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1969, 2014-15
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Swizzlewick, The Likely Lads, Emergency-Ward 10, United!, Look and Read, Jackanory, Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor in the House, Z-Cars, The Liver Birds, Doctor at Large, Coronation Street, Doctor in Charge, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, The Sweeney, Robin's Nest, Minder, The Kenny Everett Television Show, Doctor at the Top, Holby City, Heartbeat, The Bill, Eastenders, Vicious, Casualty
IMDb profile

George Layton played Technician Penn in the Doctor Who story The Space Pirates. He also voiced Stefan Lehne in the Big Finish Counter-Measures audio story Unto the Breach and Louis Markell/Human Guard in the Doctor Who audio story The Havoc of Empires.

He also played a spoof incarnation of the Doctor call 'New Doctor' in the unaired French and Saunders sketch The Silurian Disruption.

Layton's other credits included Z-Cars, The Likely Lads, Dixon of Dock Green, The Liver Birds, Coronation Street, The Sweeney and The Bill. Layton became well known for his role of Dr Paul Collier on Doctor in the House and its sequels Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge and Doctor at the Top. He is also known for playing Jimmy Stokes on United!, Brian Booth on My Brother's Keeper, Bombardier Solomons on It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Des on Minder and Norman Simmonds on EastEnders. Layton has also penned episodes of Doctor at Large, On the Buses, Doctor in Charge and Doctor at the Top.

External links

• George Layton at the Internet Movie Database