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Roger Delgado

Biography

Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was decl...

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Birthday: March 1, 1918
Passed: June 18, 1973
Place of Birth: London, England, UK

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The Sea Devils

Jo and the Doctor visit the Master, now safely locked up in an island prison. Or is he? When the Doctor and Jo find themselves caught up in the mystery of the missing ships and the creatures that emerge from the sea, they begin to wonder if the Master is up to his old tricks.

The Sea Devils

2025
4.0
Roger Delgado: The Master

A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.

Roger Delgado: The M...

2009
0.0
The Ties That Bind Us

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.

The Ties That Bind U...

2008
0.0
Police 5: The Master

Shaw Taylor warns viewers to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual known as the Master.

Police 5: The Master

1993
0.0
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a treacherous schoolboy named Turlough. But why does the Doctor's old friend, the Brigadier, not remember him at all?

Doctor Who: Mawdryn ...

1983
7.0
The Last Appointment!

Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.

The Last Appointment...

1977
0.0
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.

Doctor Who: Frontier...

1973
8.0
The Adventures Of Don Quixote

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

The Adventures Of Do...

1973
0.0
Antony and Cleopatra

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.

Antony and Cleopatra

1972
5.5
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ships have been disappearing mysteriously at sea. The Doctor discovers that Trenchard and the Master are in league to contact the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles in hibernation in a base beneath the sea, who have been awoken by recent work on a nearby sea fort. The Master intends to use his new allies to help him conquer the world!

Doctor Who: The Sea ...

1972
7.5

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