Noel Coleman

Noel Coleman
Birth date:	26 November 1919
Death date:	12 October 2007
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	General Smythe
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	The War Games
Main time period active:	1969
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Five Children and It, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Pugwash, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Invisible Man, Z-Cars, Lorna Doone, Dixon of Dock Green, Richard the Lionheart, Emergency-Ward 10, Ivanhoe, The Last of the Mohicans, Burke & Hare, Sykes, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Emmerdale, Churchill's People, The Duchess of Duke Street, Terry and June, Brookside, The Monocled Mutineer, The New Statesman, Red Dwarf
IMDb profile

Noel Coleman (26 November 1919-12 October 2007) played General Smythe in the Doctor Who television story The War Games.

Career

A prolific actor from the early 50s onwards, Coleman's roles included two appearances on The Avengers (1962, 1967) and an episode of Red Dwarf. He also appeared as Walmander Fitzurse in a 1970 adaptation of Ivanhoe and General Webb in Last of the Mohicans (1971), both directed by David Maloney.

He had regular roles as Colonel Shaw-Camberley in short lived tongue-in-cheek spy series Virgin of the Secret Service (1968) and the Commander in comedy spy series The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs (1974), and one of his final appearances was in an episode of Lovejoy in 1993.

External links

• Noel Coleman at the Internet Movie Database