DEREK WARE 1938-2015
Ludlow Castle, 1982. My first experience behind the scenes of professional theatre: a public rehearsal of an open-air production of Richard III. The lead actor shouts at the onlookers to be quiet as he practices a speech. An actor “executes” two others by wielding a sword. I later learn that the shouting Richard is someone called Edward Woodward. More excitingly, my brother (who is playing one of the Princes in the Tower) informs me that the swordsman has been in Doctor Who. He’s called Derek Ware.
Derek (right) as one of the Tribe of Gum in the very first Doctor Who serial.