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Patrick Troughton
Life Time
25 March 1920 - 28 March 1987
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Born and raised in London. In his youth he studied at the theater school under the guidance of Eileen Thorndike, later studied acting at the studio of Leighton Rallyus on Long Island in New York. With the outbreak of World War II, Trouton decided to return home. On the way back, near the coast of Great Britain, the Belgian ship, on which the actor was returning home, exploded on a mine and sank, but Trauton managed to reach the shore in a lifeboat. In 1939 he worked in the theater in Tonbridge,
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Born and raised in London. In his youth he studied at the theater school under the guidance of Eileen Thorndike, later studied acting at the studio of Leighton Rallyus on Long Island in New York. With the outbreak of World War II, Trouton decided to return home. On the way back, near the coast of Great Britain, the Belgian ship, on which the actor was returning home, exploded on a mine and sank, but Trauton managed to reach the shore in a lifeboat. In 1939 he worked in the theater in Tonbridge, a year later he was drafted into the Navy. During the hostilities in the North Sea, he served as captain of a gunboat.
After mobilization in 1945, he returned to the stage, playing at the Emersham Theatre, at the Old Vic branch in Bristol and at the Mercury Theatre in Nottingham. Beginning in 1947, he starred in television films, and in 1948 he first appeared on the screen in a cameo role in Laurence Olivier’s film Hamlet. Another work of Trouton Olivier was the role of Tyrrell in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "Richard III" (1955). The fifties and sixties became the time of the highest creative activity for him - for two decades the actor worked a lot, played in the theater, starred in films and on television. “I’m ready to play anything,” he said. His greatest popularity was brought to him by the science-fiction television series Doctor Who directed by Sidney Newman, in which he played the title role from 1966 to 1969 - an eccentric doctor traveling through time.
Given his role in the series to actor John Pertwee, Patrick Troughton continued, although less actively, to act in films, working mainly on television, which for many years became the main medium for the realization of his acting talent. Among the films in which Troughton starred are Treasure Island (1950, dir. Byron Haskin), Yazon and the Argonauts (1963, dir. Don Chaffee), Queen of the Vikings (1967, Reg. Don Cheffey), The Curse of Dracula (1970, dir. Roy Ward Baker), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977, dir. Sam Wanamaker), but most remembered for his role as Brennan's father in the horror film Richard Donner "Omen" (1976). The actor himself considered his best work the role of Daniel Quilp in the old television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens “Antiquities Shop”. He died of a heart attack in 1987 in Columbus, Ohio.