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Ian Marter
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Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly HillâŚ
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Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, these books were published under the pen name Ian Don - Don being his middle name. Marter died in 1986, on his 42nd birthday, from a heart attack associated with diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
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Ian Marter's Filmography
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Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
as Self (archive footage)
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Myth Runner
as Himself (archive footage)
Who's Who
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Harry Sullivan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Logopolis
as Harry Sullivan (archive footage)
No Poster
The Specialist
as Journalist
No Poster
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
as Lincoln's Inn (The Big Fancy)
The Medusa Touch
as Detective
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
as Harry Sullivan
Doctor Who: Robot
as Harry Sullivan
The Emergency Channel
as Literary Editor
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
as John Andrews
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
as 3rd Policeman
Doctor Faustus
as Pride/Emperor