Peter Miles (English actor)
Peter Miles (29 August 1928 – 26 February 2018) was an English actor. He played many television roles including several different characters in "Z-Cars" and "Doctor Who". His other television work also included "Blake's 7", "Survivors", "The Sweeney", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Moonbase 3", "Poldark" and "Bergerac". His film credits include roles in "Made" (1972), "The Whistle Blower" (1986) and "Little Dorrit" (1988). Peter Miles was also an accomplished jazz and soul singer. He was a childhood friend of the singer Dusty Springfield, and the first recording Springfield ever made was with Miles on guitar . Television work. In the science fiction series "Blake's 7" he played the character of Secretary Rontane in the episodes "Seek-Locate-Destroy" and "Trial". In "Doctor Who", he appeared in three serials, as Dr. Lawrence in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), Professor Whitaker in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (1974) and Nyder in "Genesis of the Daleks" (1975). He played Sheikh Hamad in The Sandbaggers in 1978. Film work. Appeared in the Henry VIII feature film "Monarch" alongside Doctor Who actors T. P. McKenna and Jean Marsh. Radio and other work. He also performed in the BBC Radio 5  Doctor Who audio drama "The Paradise of Death" in 1993, playing the villain Tragan. Miles contributed to several other "Doctor Who" spinoffs, including the independent video production "More Than a Messiah" and the audio dramas "" and "Prosperity Island", all produced by BBV. For the licensed audio drama producers Big Finish Productions, he appeared in "Whispers of Terror" in 1999 and "" in 2002. He has reprised his role as Nyder three times; in the 1993 and 2005 productions of the stage play The Trial of Davros, and in the 2006 Big Finish audio drama "". For Magic Bullet Productions, he appeared in  five of the "Kaldor City" SF audio dramas, in the role of scheming politician Landerchild. He has also appeared in the second volume of "The True History of Faction Paradox", "The Ship of a Billion Years," as the Egyptian deity Anhur. He played Lord Straxus in the "Bernice Summerfield" Season 9 episode "The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel". He also appeared in "Lovejoy" in the episode "Pig in a Poke". Death. On 27 February 2018 Miles' death the previous week at the age of 89 was announced via Twitter.