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The Stage entertainment industry newspaper reports that actor John Scott Martin, veteran of countless roles in over one hundred episodes of the classic series of Doctor Who, died on January the 6th, at the age of eighty-two. His daughter Catriona has penned an obituary piece for the paper, outlining his career.
Martin is best remembered by fans as the main Dalek operator across the twenty-six years of the classic series, but he also played various other monsters opposite the first seven Doctors, and also had occasional more visible roles, such as the dead miner at the start of The Green Death.
In 2005, he told BBC News how he would love to play a Dalek again for the new series. In addition to his Doctor Who work, Martin appeared in BBC series such as Quatermass and the Pit and I, Claudius, as well as in films (including Little Shop of Horrors) and the theatre. In 2004, he appeared as the old man who inherits all of Swansea in the Russell T Davies comedy-drama serial Mine All Mine for ITV1.