Glyn Houston

Glyn Houston
Birth date:	7 September 1925
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Professor Watson, Colonel Ben Wolsey
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	The Hand of Fear & The Awakening
Main time period active:	1976, 1984
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Blue Lamp, The Cruel Sea, The Grove Family, A Night to Remember, Sink the Bismark!, Dixon of Dock Green, How Green Was My Valley, No Hiding Place, Z-Cars, Softly Softly, Doomwatch, Harriet's Back in Town, Crown Court, Target, Keep it in the Family, Freud, Inspector Morse, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Bill
IMDb profile

Glyn Houston appeared in two Doctor Who stories: as Professor Watson in The Hand of Fear and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening. Outside the DWU, Houston was the initial actor to play Mervyn Bunter in the BBC television dramatisations of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. He was also the first actor to portray Ellis Peters' medieval-detective Brother Cadfael on BBC Radio 4 in 1979. The character has also been played by Derek Jacobi and Philip Madoc.

External links

• Glyn Houston at the Internet Movie Database