Derek Newark

Derek Newark
Birth date:	8 June 1933
Death date:	11 August 1998
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Greg Sutton, Za
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	An Unearthly Child, Inferno
Main time period active:	1963, 1970
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Avengers, The Baron, The Saint, Coronation Street, Where Eagles Dare, Oh! What a Lovely War, Dad's Army, Budgie, Crown Court, The Black Windmill, Barlow, The Two Ronnies, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Only Fools and Horses..., Juliet Bravo, Inside the Third Reich, Hitler's S.S.: Portrait of Evil, War and Remembrance, The Bill
IMDb profile

Derek Newark appeared in two Doctor Who television stories: as Za in An Unearthly Child and Greg Sutton and his Inferno Earth counterpart in Inferno. He was also considered for the roles of Ike Clanton and Virgil Earp in The Gunfighters. (TCH 7)

Outside Doctor Who, Newark is perhaps best known on TV for his role as Spooner in the popular sitcom Rising Damp.

He was part of the Royal National Theatre company which opened its present home on the South Bank and worked on many landmark productions on the South Bank, the West End and on Broadway. Early in his career, Derek Newark was a member of the Belgrade Theatre Company, whose members included Ian McKellan. Over the years, he appeared in episodes of the television series Dixon of Dock Green, Dad's Army, The Avengers, Rumpole of the Bailey and Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em. He also had supporting roles in the television miniseries' Reilly: Ace of Spies, Masada and War and Remembrance.

External links

• Derek Newark at the Internet Movie Database
• Two pictures of Derek Newark with Ian McKellan and other Belgrade Theatre members, 1961