Roger Delgado

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-03-01 (55 years old)

Deathday

1973-06-18

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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 declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untime...

Acting

1962

In Search of the Castaways

as Patagonian prisoner

1967

1956

The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Varela, Uruguayan Navy

1969

The Assassination Bureau

as Bureau Member (uncredited)

1961

The Singer Not the Song

as Pedro de Cortinez

1977

1956

Bhowani Junction

as Train Driver

1970

Underground

as Xavier

1958

Sea Fury

as Salgado

1958

1966

The Sandwich Man

as Abdul - Carpet Seller

1972

1959

First Man into Space

as Mexican Consul - Ramon de Guerrera

1955

Storm Over the Nile

as Native Spy

1970

You Can't Win 'Em All

as Capt. Enver (uncredited) (voice)

1954

Beautiful Stranger

as Police Officer

1953

Blood Orange

as Marlowe

1957

Manuela

as Stranger

1960

1954

Third Party Risk

as Detective Gonzales

1953

The Captain's Paradise

as Kalikan Policeman

1959

The Stranglers of Bombay

as Bundar (uncredited)

1953

The Broken Horseshoe

as Felix Galegos

1957

Man in the Shadow

as Alberto (uncredited)

1963

The Mind Benders

as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois (uncredited)

1966

Khartoum

as Sheikh Abdul Rahim

1971

1963

The Running Man

as Spanish Doctor

1973

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

as Officer of the Holy Brotherhood

1983

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

as The Master (archive footage) (Special Edition)

1993

Police 5: The Master

as The Master (archive footage)

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

as The Master (archive footage)

2009

Roger Delgado: The Master

as (archive footage)

1956

Destination Death

as Lisbon Police Officer

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