IAIN CUTHBERTSON was a popular performer on British television from the 1960s. The stocky, 6’4″ Cuthbertson was best known for starring as Glasgow gangster Charles Endell in the television series Budgie from 1971 to 1972, and reprised the role in the 1979 spin-off Charles Endell, Esq.
Cuthbertson was born in Glasgow, on January 4, 1930, and performed on radio and stage.
He was also featured in numerous genre productions including the 1972 supernatural science fiction television production The Stone Tape, scripted by Nigel Kneale. He appeared as Rafael Hendrick in the 1977 fantasy mini-series Children of the Stones, which was broadcast as part of The Third Eye series in the United States in 1983.
Cuthbertson guest-starred as Garron in the 1978 Doctor Who episode The Ribos Operation, and was Julian Karswell in a 1979 adaptation of the supernatural thriller Casting the Runes on ITV Playhouse. He starred as Dr. Grimstone in the 1981 fantasy comedy Vice Versa, and was Scunner CLEADING MAN OF HAMMER’S “THE REPTILE” DIES RAY BARRETT was an Australian actor, who starred in the Hammer horror film “The Reptile.” He was also the voice of John Tracy in the marionette adventure series “Thunderbirds.” Barrett was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on May 2, 1927. He began acting on radio at an early age and became a familiar face on British television when he moved there in the late 1950s. He was featured in episodes of such series as “The Adventures of Long John Silver,” the science fiction anthology series “Out of This World” in the 1962 episode “Dumb Martian,” “The Avengers,” “The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre,” “The Saint,” and “Doctor Who” as Bennett in the 1965 episode “The Rescue.” Barrett starred as Peter Clarke in the Scotland Yard detective series “Ghost Squad” from 1963 to 1964, and was oilman Peter Thornton in the adventure series “The Troubleshooters” from 1965 to 1972. He was also the voice of John Tracy, the Hood, and various other characters in the popular Gerry Anderson marionette series “Thunderbirds” from 1965 to 1966, and was Commander Sam Shore, Sub-Lieutenant John Horatio Fisher, King Titan of Titanica, and other roles in “Stingray” from 1964 to 1965. Barrett starred as Harry George Spalding in the 1966 Hammer horror film “The Reptile” and was featured as Harry in the 1971 thriller”Revenge” (aka “Inn of Frightened People” & “Terror from Under the House”). He returned to Australia in the mid-1970s where he continued his acting career in such films as the classic “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” (1978)” as Farrell, Werner Herzog’s “Where the Green Ants Dream” (1984), the supernatural slasher film “Contagion” (1987), the Gothic horror “Frenchman’s Farm” (1987), and the thriller “Visitors” (2003). Barrett died of a brain hemorrhage and complications from a fall in a Queensland, Australia, hospital on September 8, 2009, at age 82. ampbell in the adventures of Super Gran, an elderly super heroine, from 1985 to 1987.
He also appeared in episodes of such British television series as The Wednesday Play, Adam Adamant Lives!, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Avengers, Department S, Arthur of the Britons, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, the post-apocalyptical drama Survivors, and The Ray Bradbury Theater.
Cuthbertson died in Glasgow, Scotland, on September 4, 2009, at the age of 79.
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