Keith Barron

Keith Barron
Birth date:	8 August 1934
Death date:	15 November 2017
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Striker, Isaac Barclay
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1983, 2009, 2018 (posthumously)
IMDb profile

Keith Barron (8 August 1934-15 November 2017) 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) and Ratcliffe in Remembrance of the Daleks. (TCH 44)

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.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Enlightenment - Striker

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Plague of the Daleks - Isaac Barclay

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Bad Penny - Lord Tulip

External links

• Keith Barron at the Internet Movie Database