Frazer Hines

Frazer Hines
Birth date:	22 September 1944
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor
Main jobs:	Actor, Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1966-69, 1983, 1985, 2007, 2009-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	X the Unknown, Huntingtower, A King in New York, The Silver Sword, Queen's Champion, Great Expectations, The Young Jacobites, Smuggler's Cove, Emergency-Ward 10, Compact, Smuggler's Bay, Coronation Street, You Only Live Twice, Emmerdale, Dalziel and Pascoe, Outlander, Sundown, Pointless Celebrities
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Frazer Simpson Frederick Hines (born 22 September 1944) played companion Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who, from The Highlanders to The War Games, and again in the twentieth anniversary special, The Five Doctors, and the Season 22 story, The Two Doctors. He also reprised the part in a special home video minisode, Emperor of the Daleks, included in the VHS release of More than 30 Years in the TARDIS.

He also recreated the role of the Second Doctor for Big Finish's audio adventures.

Career

At the age of eight, after studying acting at the Corona Academy, he made his acting debut. He was thirteen when he appeared in Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York (1957). By the age of fifteen, he had appeared in six films. In 1960 he appeared in the eight-part serial The Young Jacobites. His television roles included Jan in The Silver Sword (1957-1958), Tim Birch in Emergency – Ward 10 (1963-1964) and Roger Wain in Coronation Street (1965). He also had a role as the voice of Mission Control in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967).

In Doctor Who he played the part of Jamie McCrimmon, a companion of the Second Doctor, from 1966 to 1969, and reappeared in The Five Doctors (1983) and The Two Doctors (1985). The original script treatment for The Three Doctors had called for him to return as Jamie in that story as well, but scheduling conflicts with his work on Emmerdale Farm, as well as objections by Jon Pertwee to what he perceived as too many characters in the story, prevented this.

After his three-year stint as Jamie in Doctor Who Hines resumed the life of a jobbing actor until 1972, when he was cast in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm as Joe Sugden — a role he played until 1994. Between making episodes of Emmerdale, as it was renamed in the 1980s, he has continued a career in the theatre and made occasional appearances on other TV shows.

He is also a noted amateur jockey.

Recently, Hines has returned to the Doctor Who franchise through the Big Finish Productions audio line, performing Jamie for the Companion Chronicles and The Lost Stories series. In this capacity he also made use of his impersonation of Patrick Troughton, and in 2013 was formally cast as the Second Doctor for an extended cameo in the anniversary story The Light at the End, which he continues to do so in The Early Adventures and The Companion Chronicles audio ranges and a brief cameo in the audio anthology The Legacy of Time. In 2010, Hines took part in a series of audio dramas pairing Jamie with the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker).

Hines has published two autobiographies: Films, Farms and Fillies (1996) and Hines Sight (2009).

In March 2013, Hines appeared on a Doctor Who edition of the TV game show Pointless Celebrities, and partnered up with Louise Jameson.

Personal life

In 1981, Frazer married Irish actress Gemma Craven, but the marriage dissolved in 1984. He married again in 1994 to Liz Hobbs. They divorced in 2003. At one time, he dated his Underwater Menace co-star Catherine Howe, although neither can agree when this occurred due to confliction in memory. (DCOM: A Fishy Tale)

In July 2010, Hines revealed that he had been battling bowel cancer for eleven years, but had chosen not to publicise the fact (even going so far as omitting it from his 2009 autobiography) until given the medical all-clear.

Acting credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Highlanders
• The Underwater Menace
• The Moonbase
• The Macra Terror
• The Faceless Ones
• The Evil of the Daleks
• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Abominable Snowmen
• The Ice Warriors
• The Enemy of the World
• The Web of Fear
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel in Space
• The Dominators
• The Mind Robber
• The Invasion
• The Krotons
• The Seeds of Death
• The Space Pirates
• The War Games
• The Five Doctors
• The Two Doctors

Direct-to-video

• Emperor of the Daleks

Webcasts

Tales of the TARDIS

• The Mind Robber

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• City of Spires - "Jamie"
• The Wreck of the Titan - "Jamie"
• Legend of the Cybermen - "Jamie"
• Last of the Cybermen

Special Releases

• The Light at the End
• The Legacy of Time
  • Collision Course - Second Doctor

The Lost Stories

• Prison in Space
• The Rosemariners
• The Queen of Time
• Lords of the Red Planet

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• Return to Telos

Ravenous 3

• Companion Piece

The Second Doctor Adventures

• James Robert McCrimmon
  • Jamie
  • The Green Man
  • The Shroud

The Third Doctor Adventures

• The Annihilators

The Early Adventures

• The Yes Men
• The Forsaken
• The Black Hole
• The Isos Network
• The Night Witches
• The Outliers
• The Morton Legacy
• The Wreck of the World
• The Home Guard
• Daughter of the Gods

The Companion Chronicles

• Helicon Prime
• The Glorious Revolution
• The Emperor of Eternity
• Night's Black Agents - "Jamie"
• The Forbidden Time
• The Selachian Gambit
• The Jigsaw War
• House of Cards
• The Apocalypse Mirror
• The Dying Light
• The Mouthless Dead
• The Story of Extinction
• The Integral
• The Edge
• The Curator's Egg - as The Doctor only
• Dumb Waiter
• The Iron Maid
• The Death of the Daleks
• The Phantom Piper

Destiny of the Doctors

• Shadow of Death

Short Trips

• Little Doctors
• The Way of the Empty Hand
• Year of the Drex Olympics
• Deleted Scenes

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors
• The Krotons

BBC Novelisations

• The Evil of the Daleks

BBC Audio

• The Elysian Blade
• The Resurrection Plant

Doctor Who Audio Annuals

• Follow the Phantoms

11 Doctors, 11 Stories

• The Nameless City

Other roles

Webcasts

The Collection

• The Trial - Frazer Hines

Audio

Vienna

• Bad Faith - Bax Spendlove

Documentary

• 30 Years in the TARDIS
• The Missing Years
• Tombwatch
• The Story of Doctor Who
• The Fact of Fiction
• Highlander - The Jamie McCrimmon Story
• Flash Frames
• Evolution of The Invasion
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• War Zone
• Shades of Grey
• Recharge and Equalise
• Tomorrow's Times
• Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
• Second Time Around
• The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor
• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
• Lunar Landing
• Toby Hadoke's Who's Round
• A Fishy Tale
• The Fan Show
• Going Underground
• The Dalek Factor
• Troughton in Tibet

Other

• Pointless Celebrities: Doctor Who Special

Writing credits

BBC Novelisations

• The Evil of the Daleks (with Mike Tucker and Steve Cole)

External links

• Frazer Hines at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account