Richard Franklin
Known for: Actor
Born: 15 January 1936, Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died: 25 December 2023
Credits: 34 titles
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist. Principally a stage actor, he also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British television programmes, including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm, and he portrayed Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974, returning to the role on a number of occasions both on television and in Doctor Who spin-off media.
Filmography
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
Saving Elodie
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
Twilight of the Gods
Chemical Wedding
The Ties That Bind Us
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Chronotrip
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee
Heartbeat
Blake's 7: Aftermath
Waving to a Train
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Blake's 7
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Little Women
The Fiction Makers
Doctor Who
The Saint
Dixon of Dock Green