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| [[Image:sachs33.jpg|thumb|German-born actor Andrew Sachs.]]
| | '''Andrew Sachs''' (born '''Andreas Siegfried Sachs''', [[7th April|7]] [[April]], [[1930]]) appeared as [[Skagra]] in the webcast/audio version of ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'', a [[Season 17]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story never completed or broadcast on television. [[Sylvester McCoy]] suggested in [[2008]] that he would make the best replacement for [[David Tennant]], soon to leave the role of the [[Tenth Doctor]]. |
| '''Andrew Sachs''' (born '''Andreas Siegfried Sachs''', [[7th April|7]] [[April]], [[1930]]) appeared as [[Skagra]] in the webcast/audio version of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'' in [[2003]]. | |
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| achs is best known for his role as Manuel, the [[Spain|Spanish]] waiter in the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers,'' produced first in [[1975]] and again in [[1979]]. Interestingly, Sach's co-star [[John Cleese]] made a cameo appearance in the ''Doctor Who'' story, "[[City of Death]]," during the same season that the original, incomplete version of "[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]" was produced.
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| Sachs was born in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]. His family moved to [[England]] when he was eight years old to escape the [[Nazi]] persecution of [[Jew]]s. He is married to Melody Lang, who appeared in one episode of ''Fawlty Towers'', "Basil the Rat," as Mrs. Taylor. His step-son is John Sachs, erstwhile Capital Radio DJ and Gladiators commentator.
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| Sachs is now frequently heard as a narrator of television and radio documentaries. From [[1984]] to [[1986]], Sachs starred as Father Brown in a [[BBC Radio]] series based on the stories of G.K. Chesterton.
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| Sachs performed all the voices in the English-language version of Jan Švankmajer's [[1994]] film ''Faust''.
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| Sachs also appeared on many children's TV shows, such as ''William's Wish Wellingtons'', ''Starhill Ponies'' and ''AlfTales''. In addition, he has been a narrator on many television documentaries, including ITV's ''...from Hell'' series and the ''Eyewitness'' videos.
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| In 2002 and again in 2004 he played [[John Watson|Dr. John Watson]] in two series of original [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories for BBC Radio 4, which starred Clive Merrison as the famous consulting detective. These were transmitted as ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', and have been released on compact disc and cassette.
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| On [[9th April|9]] [[April]], [[2006]], Sachs appeared in BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial adaptation of ''The Code of the Woosters'' as Jeeves with Marcus Brigstocke as Bertie Wooster.
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| ==External links== | | ==External links== |
| *{{imdb name|id=0755133|name=Andrew Sachs}} | | *{{imdb name|id=0755133|name=Andrew Sachs}} |
| {{Wikipedia|Andrew_Sachs}}
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| [[Category:Doctor Who webcast actors|Sachs, Andrew]] | | [[Category:Doctor Who webcast actors|Sachs, Andrew]] |
