Derek Ware

Derek Ware
Birth date:	27 February 1938
Death date:	22 September 2015
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Private Wyatt, Pigbin Josh, Tuthmos
Main jobs:	Created HAVOC, Fight arranger, Stunt performer, Actor
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	1963-1968, 1970-1972
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Actor: An Age of Kings, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Adam Adamant Lives!, Up the Junction, Colditz, War and Peace, The Two Ronnies, Last of the Summer Wine, London's Burning Grange Hill Fight Arranger: The Battle of Culloden, The War Game, The Italian Job, Eastenders, Willow, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
IMDb profile

Derek Ware (27 February 1938-22 September 2015) was fight arranger for and actor in many episodes of Doctor Who.

In the 1960s, he founded the stunt group HAVOC, which provided the stunts for many Doctor Who stories.

He provided the stunts for the films The Italian Job (in which he played the role of Rozzer), Willow and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He also appeared in television shows such as Adam Adamant Lives!, An Age of Kings, The Troubleshooters, Paul Temple, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, The Onedin Line and Grange Hill.

Credited roles

As fight arranger

• An Unearthly Child
• The Aztecs
• The Crusade
• The Myth Makers
• The Daleks' Master Plan
• The Smugglers
• The Underwater Menace
• The Web of Fear
• The Sea Devils

As actor

• The Crusade (as Saracen Warrior)
• The Daleks' Master Plan (as Tuthmos)
• The Smugglers (as Spaniard)
• The Ambassadors of Death (as UNIT Sergeant)
• Inferno (as Private Wyatt)
• The Claws of Axos (as Pigbin Josh)

Uncredited roles

• An Unearthly Child (as the stunt double for Kal) (DWMS Summer 1994)
• The Chase (as a bus conductor) (DWMS Summer 1993)
• The Myth Makers (as a Stuntman / Trojan soldier) (DWM 284)
• The Smugglers (as the double for Josiah Blake) (DWM 321)
• The Web of Fear (as a Army Soldier) (DWM 235)
• The Ambassadors of Death (as a Stuntman / UNIT Soldier) (DWM 252)
• Terror of the Autons (as a Stuntman / UNIT Soldier) (DWM 311)
• The Claws of Axos (as the stunt double for Filer) (DWM 264)
• The Sea Devils (as a Sailor, Double for the Master and a Marine) (DWM 192)

External links

• Derek Ware at the Internet Movie Database