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|birth date    = [[19 December (people)|19 December]] [[1961 (people)|1961]]
|birth date    = [[19 December (people)|19 December]] [[1961 (people)|1961]]
|role          = [[Adric]]
|role          = [[Adric]]
|job title      =Actor  
|job title      = [[Actor]], [[Writer]]
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|story          = [[#Credits|See Credits Section]]
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|non dwu        = ''To Serve Them All My Days'', ''The Killing Edge'', ''[[Dark Shadows]]''
|imdb          = 0913964
|imdb          = 0913964
|official site  = www.matthewwaterhouse.com/site/
|official site  = www.matthewwaterhouse.com/site/
|twitter        = MinettaLane
|twitter        = MinettaLane
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'''Matthew Waterhouse''' (born on [[19 December (people)|19 December]] [[1961 (people)|1961]]<ref>[[REF]]: ''[[Who-ology: The Official Miscellany]]''</ref> in [[Hertford]]) played [[companion]] [[Adric]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from ''[[Full Circle]]'' to ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', with cameo appearances in ''[[Time-Flight]]'' and ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]''. After leaving the series, he began a stage career.
'''Matthew Waterhouse''' (born on [[19 December (people)|19 December]] [[1961 (people)|1961]]<ref>[[REF]]: ''[[Who-ology: The Official Miscellany]]''</ref> in [[Hertford]]) played [[companion]] [[Adric]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'' to ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', with cameo appearances in ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'' and ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''.


Waterhouse began his career as a clerk in the [[BBC]] news department before securing a role in the television drama {{wi|To Serve Them All My Days}} in 1980. Shortly afterward he auditioned for and won the role of Adric. He was a confirmed ''Doctor Who'' fan and had had at least one letter printed in ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' before he took up the role.
After leaving the series, he began a stage career. Since 2014, he reprised the role of Adric for [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s audio adventures. He shared his memories of portraying Adric in [[THWR 96|the 96th edition]] of Big Finish's charity podcast series ''[[Toby Hadoke's Who's Round]]''.


Adric was a companion of [[Tom Baker]] and [[Peter Davison]]'s [[the Doctor|Doctors]] from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so. (In 2010, [[Caitlin Blackwood]] aged ten played the role of seven-year-old [[Amelia Pond]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s first companion, and continued to portray her on a recurring basis throughout — and immediately beyond — her cousin [[Karen Gillan]]'s regular performance as adult Amy). Matthew Waterhouse is openly [[gay]] and is believed to be the first non-heterosexual actor on ''Doctor Who'' to have been open about his [[sexuality]] while on the series. He also played the third companion to die in the series after [[Katarina]] in 1965 and [[Sara Kingdom]] in 1966. The first ''Doctor Who'' serial Waterhouse filmed was ''[[State of Decay]]''; ''Full Circle'' was filmed afterwards.
== Personal life ==
Waterhouse is openly gay<ref>''Blue Box Boy'', Matthew Waterhouse (published 2010 by What Noise Productions)</ref> and lives with his husband in [[Sussex]]. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[Living With Waterhouse (documentary)|Living With Waterhouse]]'')


Waterhouse's name was used, as an in-joke, by comedians [[Matt Lucas]] and [[David Walliams]] for a character in their sketch show {{wi|Little Britain}}. Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. (''Little Britain'' has also featured two other characters named after ''Doctor Who'' companion actors, [[Michael Craze]] and [[Mark Strickson]].)
== Career ==
Waterhouse began his career as a clerk in the [[BBC]] news department before securing a role in the television drama {{wi|To Serve Them All My Days (TV series)|To Serve Them All My Days}} in 1980. Shortly afterward he auditioned for and won the role of Adric. He was a confirmed ''Doctor Who'' fan and had had at least one letter printed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Weekly]]'' before he took up the role.
 
Adric was a companion of [[Tom Baker]] and [[Peter Davison]]'s [[the Doctor|Doctors]] from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so. (In 2010, [[Caitlin Blackwood]] aged ten played the role of seven-year-old [[Amelia Pond]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s first companion, and continued to portray her on a recurring basis throughout — and immediately beyond — her cousin [[Karen Gillan]]'s regular performance as adult Amy). Matthew Waterhouse is openly [[gay]] and is believed to be the first non-heterosexual actor on ''Doctor Who'' to have been open about his [[sexuality]] while on the series. He also played the third companion to die in the series after [[Katarina]] in 1965 and [[Sara Kingdom]] in 1966. The first ''Doctor Who'' serial Waterhouse filmed was ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''; ''Full Circle'' was filmed afterwards.
 
Waterhouse's name was used, as an in-joke, by comedians [[Matt Lucas]] and [[David Walliams]] for a character in their sketch show {{wi|Little Britain (TV series)|Little Britain}}. Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. (''Little Britain'' has also featured two other characters named after ''Doctor Who'' companion actors, [[Michael Craze]] and [[Mark Strickson]].)


Waterhouse has lived in [[Connecticut]], in the [[United States]], since July 1998. He still appears occasionally at fan conventions and visits the [[UK]]. Most recently, he has contributed to the commentary for the DVD releases of ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'' and ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]''.
Waterhouse has lived in [[Connecticut]], in the [[United States]], since July 1998. He still appears occasionally at fan conventions and visits the [[UK]]. Most recently, he has contributed to the commentary for the DVD releases of ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'' and ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]''.
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Waterhouse was offered a role in the [[Big Finish]] audios shortly after they started, but turned down the offers for many years. This was not due to a resentment of the company but rather a belief that he could not capture the youthful essence of the fifteen-year-old [[Adric]] at his age. After recording some Target audio books, he decided that doing so might have been possible, and in 2014 he reprised the role in two audios for ''[[The Fifth Doctor Box Set]]''; ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'' and ''[[Iterations of I (audio story)|Iterations of I]]''. ([[DWMSE 39]])
Waterhouse was offered a role in the [[Big Finish]] audios shortly after they started, but turned down the offers for many years. This was not due to a resentment of the company but rather a belief that he could not capture the youthful essence of the fifteen-year-old [[Adric]] at his age. After recording some Target audio books, he decided that doing so might have been possible, and in 2014 he reprised the role in two audios for ''[[The Fifth Doctor Box Set]]''; ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'' and ''[[Iterations of I (audio story)|Iterations of I]]''. ([[DWMSE 39]])


== Acting Credits ==
== Acting credits ==
=== Television ===
=== Television ===
==== ''Doctor Who'' ====
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]''
* ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]''
* ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''
* ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''
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* ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''
* ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''


=== Audio dramas ===
=== Other ===
* ''[[Children in Need 1985 (TV story)|Children in Need 1985]]''
* ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]''
 
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[The Star Men (audio story)|The Star Men]]''
* ''[[The Star Men (audio story)|The Star Men]]''
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* ''[[Serpent in the Silver Mask (audio story)|Serpent in the Silver Mask]]''
* ''[[Serpent in the Silver Mask (audio story)|Serpent in the Silver Mask]]''


==== Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
* ''[[Purgatory 12 (audio story)|Purgatory 12]]''
* ''[[Purgatory 12 (audio story)|Purgatory 12]]''
* ''[[Chase the Night (audio story)|Chase the Night]]''
* ''[[Chase the Night (audio story)|Chase the Night]]''
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* ''[[The Quest of the Engineer (audio story)|The Quest of the Engineer]]''
* ''[[The Quest of the Engineer (audio story)|The Quest of the Engineer]]''


==== Fifth Doctor Adventures ====
==== The Fifth Doctor Adventures ====
* ''[[The Fifth Doctor Box Set]]''
* ''[[The Fifth Doctor Box Set]]''
** ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]''
** ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]''
** ''[[Iterations of I (audio story)|Iterations of I]]''
** ''[[Iterations of I (audio story)|Iterations of I]]''
* ''[[The Lost Resort (audio story)|The Lost Resort]]''
* ''[[God of War (audio story)|God of War]]''


==== Novel Adaptations ====
==== Novel Adaptations ====
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* ''[[A Full Life (audio story)|A Full Life]]''
* ''[[A Full Life (audio story)|A Full Life]]''
* ''[[The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius (audio story)|The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius]]''
* ''[[The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius (audio story)|The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius]]''
* ''[[Messages from the Dead (audio story)|Messages from the Dead]]''


==== Ravenous ====
==== Ravenous ====
 
* ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''
*''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''


=== Audiobook Readings ===
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Visitation (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Visitation]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Visitation (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Visitation]]''
* ''[[Full Circle (novelisation)|Full Circle]]''
* ''[[Full Circle (novelisation)|Full Circle]]''
* ''[[Four to Doomsday (novelisation)|Four to Doomsday]]''
* ''[[Four to Doomsday (novelisation)|Four to Doomsday]]''


=== The Doctor Who Audio Annual ===
==== The Audio Novels ====
* ''[[Watchers (audio story)|Watchers]]''
* ''[[Prisoners of London (audio story)|Prisoners of London]]''
 
==== Doctor Who Audio Annuals ====
* ''[[Conundrum (short story)|Conundrum]]''
* ''[[Conundrum (short story)|Conundrum]]''
* ''[[The Penalty (short story)|The Penalty]]''
* ''[[The Penalty (short story)|The Penalty]]''
* ''[[Double Trouble (short story)|Double Trouble]]''
* ''[[Double Trouble (short story)|Double Trouble]]''
* ''[[Planet of Fear (short story)|Planet of Fear]]''
* ''[[Planet of Fear (short story)|Planet of Fear]]''
==== Dalek Audio Annuals ====
* ''[[Timechase (short story)|Timechase]]''
* ''[[The Fugitive (short story)|The Fugitive]]''
* ''[[Nightmare (short story)|Nightmare]]''
=== Webcasts ===
==== ''The Collection'' ====
* ''[[The Trial (webcast)|The Trial]]''


=== Documentary ===
=== Documentary ===
* ''Doctor Who's Who's Who''
* ''Doctor Who's Who's Who''
* ''[[Putting the Shock into Earthshock]]''
* ''[[Putting the Shock into Earthshock (documentary)|Putting the Shock into Earthshock]]''
* ''[[A New Body at Last]]''
* ''[[A New Body at Last (documentary)|A New Body at Last]]''
* ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor]]''
* ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty]]''
* ''[[Who's Round]]''
* ''[[THWR 96|Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 96: Matthew Waterhouse]]''
* ''[[The Fan Show]]''
* ''[[The Fan Show]]''
* ''[[Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva (documentary)|Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva]]''


=== Other ===
== Writing credits ==
* ''[[Children in Need 1985 (TV story)|Children in Need 1985]]''
* ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]''
 
== Writing Credits ==
=== Short Stories ===
=== Short Stories ===
==== The Target Storybook ====
==== The Target Storybook ====
* ''[[The Dark River (short story)|The Dark River]]''
* ''[[The Dark River (short story)|The Dark River]]''
=== Audio ===
==== The Audio Novels ====
* ''[[Watchers (audio story)|Watchers]]''
* ''[[Prisoners of London (audio story)|Prisoners of London]]''


== External links ==
== External links ==
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Latest revision as of 20:23, 3 November 2024

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Matthew Waterhouse (born on 19 December 1961[1] in Hertford) played companion Adric in Doctor Who from Full Circle to Earthshock, with cameo appearances in Time-Flight and The Caves of Androzani.

After leaving the series, he began a stage career. Since 2014, he reprised the role of Adric for Big Finish's audio adventures. He shared his memories of portraying Adric in the 96th edition of Big Finish's charity podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round.

Personal life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Waterhouse is openly gay[2] and lives with his husband in Sussex. (DCOM: Living With Waterhouse)

Career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Waterhouse began his career as a clerk in the BBC news department before securing a role in the television drama To Serve Them All My Days in 1980. Shortly afterward he auditioned for and won the role of Adric. He was a confirmed Doctor Who fan and had had at least one letter printed in Doctor Who Weekly before he took up the role.

Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so. (In 2010, Caitlin Blackwood aged ten played the role of seven-year-old Amelia Pond, the Eleventh Doctor's first companion, and continued to portray her on a recurring basis throughout — and immediately beyond — her cousin Karen Gillan's regular performance as adult Amy). Matthew Waterhouse is openly gay and is believed to be the first non-heterosexual actor on Doctor Who to have been open about his sexuality while on the series. He also played the third companion to die in the series after Katarina in 1965 and Sara Kingdom in 1966. The first Doctor Who serial Waterhouse filmed was State of Decay; Full Circle was filmed afterwards.

Waterhouse's name was used, as an in-joke, by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a character in their sketch show Little Britain. Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. (Little Britain has also featured two other characters named after Doctor Who companion actors, Michael Craze and Mark Strickson.)

Waterhouse has lived in Connecticut, in the United States, since July 1998. He still appears occasionally at fan conventions and visits the UK. Most recently, he has contributed to the commentary for the DVD releases of The Visitation and Earthshock.

In 2010, Waterhouse joined a growing number of Doctor Who actors in publishing an autobiography. In his book, Blue Box Boy, he writes candidly about his experiences making Doctor Who. In it he claims Tom Baker had a horrible attitude and that he was shocked that someone he admired could be this way. To publicise the release, he consented to a rare interview for Doctor Who Magazine #424.

Waterhouse was offered a role in the Big Finish audios shortly after they started, but turned down the offers for many years. This was not due to a resentment of the company but rather a belief that he could not capture the youthful essence of the fifteen-year-old Adric at his age. After recording some Target audio books, he decided that doing so might have been possible, and in 2014 he reprised the role in two audios for The Fifth Doctor Box Set; Psychodrome and Iterations of I. (DWMSE 39)

Acting credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fourth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fifth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Novel Adaptations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ravenous[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audiobook Readings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Audio Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Audio Annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dalek Audio Annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Collection[[edit] | [edit source]]

Documentary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Writing credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Target Storybook[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Audio Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany
  2. ↑ Blue Box Boy, Matthew Waterhouse (published 2010 by What Noise Productions)
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