Feature by PAUL KIRKLEY
Alan Bennion’s first Doctor Who role, as Slaar in The Seeds of Death (1969).
With three major roles in five years, Alan Bennion, who has died at the age of 88, ought to be one of early Doctor Who’s most familiar faces. Except, of course, viewers never actually got to see his face, hidden as it was beneath the layers of latex and fibreglass that transformed him into a trio of memorable Ice Warriors.