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Keith Barron (8 August 1934-15 November 2017[1]) played Striker in the Doctor Who television story Enlightenment and voiced Isaac Barclay in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Plague of the Daleks. His final role was as Lord Tulip in the audio story The Bad Penny, which was posthumously released in 2018.
He was previously considered for the role of Captain Stapley in Time-Flight (TCH 35) and subsequently considered for Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet. (TCH 42)
Career
Barron was a familiar face on British television, whose first breakthrough was playing Det. Sgt. Swift on The Odd Man, after which he appeared on The Avengers, Z-Cars, No Hiding Place, Out of the Unknown, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Upstairs, Downstairs and Minder. However, he is best known for playing David Pearce on Duty Free from 1984-86.