- Valerie Leon
"Valerie Leon" (born November 12, 1945) is an English actress, regarded as something of a cult figure due to her roles in a number of high profile British film "franchises". Her father was a director of a textile company and her mother, who trained at RADA, stopped acting to become a full-time mother. She is the eldest of four privately-educated children.
- Peter Jones
Peter Jones was an English actor, playwright and broadcaster. He was best known as the voice of The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", for his lead role in the TV sitcom "The Rag Trade", and for his elegant repartee on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Just a Minute" (where he excelled at the amusing one liners, but seldom scored many points).
- Annette Andre
Annette Andre (born 1939, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s & '70's. She starred as Jeannie Hopkirk in the original series of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" as well as making many guest appearances in popular shows such as "The Avengers", "The Saint", "Adam Adamant Lives!", "The Troubleshooters", "The Baron" and "The Prisoner".
- Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man with a booming voice, great beard and robust build ideal for the bushy bearded, often humorous men in Shakespearean and medieval dramas. The son of a miner, Blessed was born in the ex-mining town of Mexborough and grew up in the nearby town of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
- Mike Pratt
Mike Pratt (born June 7 1931, London, England; died July 10 1976) was an English actor known for his work on British television in the 1960s and early 1970s. Pratt is probably best known for his role as Jeff Randall in "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". He also wrote an episode of the series. He also appeared in "The Saint", "Man in a Suitcase", "The Champions" and "The Adventures of Black Beauty" in which he had a semi-regular role.
- Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey (June 18, 1935-May 15, 1991) was an English actor.
- Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Cope (born on 14 July 1934 in Liverpool) is an English actor. He is most famous for his leading role in "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" (1969-1970) as the late private eye Marty Hopkirk opposite Mike Pratt's very much alive Jeff Randall. He had previously in "Coronation Street" as the shady Jed Stone (between 1961 and 1966), and had a regular role in the influential satirical series "That Was The Week That Was" (1962-1963).
- Alexandra Bastedo
Alexandra Bastedo (born March 9 1946) is a British actress. Best known for her role as super-powered secret agent Sharon Macready in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series "The Champions", Bastedo was regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses of the 1960s. She was born in Hove, East Sussex, England. Her husband is the director Patrick Garland, noted for his direction of the Chichester festival.
- David Jason
Sir David Jason, OBE (born 2 February 1940) is a highly regarded English actor, admired equally for his dramatic work as for his comedy roles. He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of "Del Boy" in the BBC television situation comedy "Only Fools and Horses" which made him a household name in the United Kingdom, and for playing detective chief inspector Jack Frost on "A Touch of Frost".
- Nosher Powell
Nosher Powell (born 15 August 1928 in Camberwell, London, England) is known both as an actor, sometimes credited as; Freddie Powell, Frederick Powell and Fred Powell, and as a boxer. Powell has had an extensive, but mostly uncredited career in acting, and, in his biography "Nosher!", he is described as the ultimate hard man - a boxer, bouncer, minder, a stunt man, and a force to be reckoned with.
- Anton Rodgers
Anton Rodgers (born 10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire) is a British actor. He is best known for his television performances, specifically his long-running roles in the television sitcoms "Fresh Fields" and "May to December".
- Geoffrey Hughes
Geoffrey Hughes (b. 2 February 1944 in Wallasey, Wirral, England) is an English actor, best known to United Kingdom television viewers for his playing: Vernon Scrips in Heartbeat; Eddie Yeats, refuse collector and lodger of Hilda Ogden in UK soap opera "Coronation Street", from 1974 to 1983; the slobbish Onslow in the popular BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances"; and the character Twiggy on "The Royle Family", a role he reprised in 2006.
- Norman Bird
Norman Bird was one of Britain's foremost character actors. Often sporting a moustache and an air of worried resignation, he seemed to specialise in downtrodden roles. Describing himself as "the man with the cardigan", his doleful looks ensured that he was usually cast as henpecked husbands, petty officials or interfering busybodies. Bird was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England.
- Alfred Burke
Alfred Burke (born 28 February 1918) is a British actor.
- David Bauer
David Bauer (March 6, 1917 - February 13, 1973) was an American born British actor. Though born in the United States, he left the United States due to McCarthyism and settled in Britain, where he appeared in many of Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment productions, including "The Baron", "The Champions" (where he provided opening narration for each episode), "The Avengers", "Department S", "Gideon's Way", "Jason King", …
- Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes (born 20 May 1922 in London) is an English actor. He has extensive film, television and theatre experience as a character actor. He played a recurring role as a bank manager, in the BBC television series "Bergerac" and he played General Franco in Sir Alan Parker's film adaptation of "Evita". He also coaches at Ealing cricket club.
- Edward Brayshaw
Edward Brayshaw was a British actor. His television roles include the part of Rochefort in the 1966 miniseries "The Three Musketeers" and 1967's "The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers". He is probably most recognised for playing Harold Meaker in "Rentaghost". He appeared twice in "Doctor Who": first as Léon Colbert in 1964's "The Reign of Terror", and second as the War Chief, …
- Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on December 16 1929) is a British television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
- Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines (1931 - 1977) was an English actress. Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, she is best known for her television work. Her credits include: "Dixon of Dock Green", "Steptoe and Son", "The Avengers" (in which she appeared in three episodes: "The Nutshell", "The Master Minds" and "Who's Who?"), "Danger Man", "Public Eye", "The Baron", "Softly, Softly", "Adam Adamant Lives!", …
- Neil McCarthy
Neil McCarthy (born 26 July 1933 -died of Motor Neurone disease 6 February 1985). He was a British actor known for his dramatic physical appearance. (It is rumoured that he had acromegaly). He was a gifted linguist and pianist. His film credits include a memorable role as a Welsh soldier in "Zulu", as well as a remarkable performance as the villain Calibos in "Clash of the Titans". His television credits include: "Danger Man", "The Avengers", …
- Gerald Flood
Gerald Flood (born on 21 April 1927 Portsmouth Hampshire - died from a heart attack on 12 April 1989) was a British actor of stage and television. He appeared in a number of television and film roles over the years.
- Charles Lloyd Pack
Charles Lloyd Pack was a British film, television and stage actor. He was seen in several horror movies produced by the Hammer Studios including "Dracula", "The Man Who Could Cheat Death", "The Revenge of Frankenstein" and "The Reptile". His most notable role was Professor Marks in the British television series "Strange Report" but he is also known from other television appearances in "The Avengers", "Quatermass II", …
- Robin Askwith
Robin Askwith is an English film actor, most famous for his role as "Timmy Lea" in the "Confessions..." sex comedies. He also appeared in one Carry On film, "Carry On Girls". Askwith was not the original choice for the lead role in the Confessions films. He was the fourth choice after the role was turned down by the three previous candidates for it, Richard Beckinsale, Richard O'Sullivan and Dennis Waterman.
- Duncan Lamont
Duncan William Ferguson Lamont (June 17 1918 - December 19 1978) was a British actor. Born in Lisbon, Portugal but raised in Scotland, he had a long and successful career in film and television, appearing in a variety of high-profile productions. On film, the best-known of the many productions he appeared in were "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1959 version, as Kennedy), "Ben-Hur" ([1959, uncredited but playing Marius), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962, …
- Ronald Radd
Ronald Radd (22 January 1929, Ryhope County, Durham, England - 23 April 1976, Toronto, Canada) was a British television actor. Radd starred in some 60 different TV shows between 1955 and 1976 including "The Avengers" and "Z-Cars". He also played the role of the villain Pargit in "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969 in the sixth episode, "Just for the Record" where he grew a lengthy beard resembling Henry VIII of England.
- Harold Innocent
Harold Innocent (18 April 1935 - 12 September 1993) was a British actor who has appeared in many film and television roles. In 1969 he appeared in the pilot episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in the episode "My Late Lamented Friend and Partner" as a hit man. His film roles included "Without a Clue" (1988) and "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991).
- Arthur Brough
Frederick Arthur Baker (26 February 1905 - 28 May 1978) was an English actor, known as Arthur Brough, who gained his greatest fame as Mr. Grainger in the BBC sitcom "Are You Being Served?". Brough was born in Petersfield, Hampshire and graduated from RADA in the 1920s. He had a minor role opposite Jayne Mansfield in the 1960 film "The Challenge", and made guest appearances in TV shows such as "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Dad's Army", …
- George A. Cooper
George A Cooper is an English actor (born 7 March 1925 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England). One of his best-known roles was as the caretaker Mr. Griffiths in the long-running children's TV series "Grange Hill". He also enjoyed acclaim as Geoffrey Fisher, the stern father of the eponymous antihero "Billy Liar", in both the original West End stage version (1960) and the later sitcom (1973-74).
- Kieron Moore
Kieron Moore (5 October 1924 - in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland) is retired Irish film actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, Moore, noted for his suave handsome looks made well over 50 appearances in film and in several British television episodes by the late 1960s appearing as the main villain in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the episode When the Spirit Moves You.
- Garfield Morgan
Garfield Morgan (born 19 April 1931) is an English actor mostly on TV and occasional films. His best remembered role may have been as Detective Inspector Frank Haskins in the British crime series of the 1970's, "The Sweeney". He appeared in "The House on Haunted Hill" episode of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969. He continues to perform in character roles on TV, most recently in "The Bill".
- Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan (born April 4, 1923), is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He was born in Wem, Shropshire, and has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts. He became known for his performances on television, …
- John Sharp
John Sharp (5 August 1920 Bradford, Yorkshire - 26 November 1992 London, England) was a British television actor. He made nearly 80 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. He appeared in many major British TV series in the 1960s. He played in "The Avengers" episodes "Murdersville", Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) and Z Cars.
- Jeremy Burnham
Jeremy Burnham is a British television actor of the 1960s and 1970s and a screenwriter. Burnham began in the late 1950s as an actor and appeared in many popular British TV series such as The Avengers", The Saint and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969. In the mid 1970s he retired from acting and concentrated on screen writing in which he is now after several decades mosty credited with, script writing for series such as Peak Practice.
- Harry Locke
Harry Locke (December 10 1913 - September 17 1987) was a British character actor. He was born and died in London. He was a familiar face in three decades of British cinema, with appearances including "Passport to Pimlico" (1949), "Reach for the Sky" (1956), "Carry On Nurse" (1959), "The Devil-Ship Pirates" (1963) and "The Family Way" (1966). Then in 1969 he appeared in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as a night porter.
- Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc (born 5 July 1934 in Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor who has had many television and film roles. Perhaps his most famous role was as the title character in the BBC Wales drama "The Life and Times of David Lloyd George". However he first gained widespread recognition in two TV serials, first as the relentless SS Officer Lutzig in the WW2 serial "Manhunt" (1969), …
- Adrienne Corri
Adrienne Corri (born on 13 November 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage. She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange", and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's "The River" (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago" (1965).
- Brian Oulton
Brian Oulton (February 11, 1908-April 13, 1992) was a British character actor. Born in Liverpool, he made his acting debut in 1939 as a lead actor. During World War II he served in the army, and returned to acting playing character roles in 1946; he made a name for himself playing the same pompous character in numerous films, and he went on to appear in several Carry On films.
- William Mervyn
William Mervyn (born 3 January 1912 in Nairobi, Kenya, died 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the Bishop in the clerical comedy "All Gas and Gaiters". He appeared in the 1966 "Doctor Who" story "The War Machines" and several "Carry On films" in the late 1960s and also appeared as a gentleman in the second "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" episode "A Disturbing Case" in 1969.
- Ray Brooks
Ray Brooks (born 20 April 1939 in Brighton, East Sussex) is an English actor possibly best known for his narration work for children's TV show Mr Benn. Ray Brooks had appeared in the long-running soap "Coronation Street" and had played Terry Mills in the series Taxi with Sid James (1963) by the time he rose to prominence in the UK in the 1960s, starring alongside Michael Crawford and Rita Tushingham in "The Knack...and How to Get It".
- Caroline Blakiston
Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933, London) is an English actress who has appeared predominantly in television roles, notably in the series "Brass". She also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science fiction film "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi". In the 1960s she appeared in a number of ITC productions such as "The Avengers" and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in the episode "Never Trust a Ghost" in 1969.