Michael troughton biography
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Having completed my A levels at the age of 19, I joined the Arts Theatre in London that at the time housed the Unicorn Children's Theatre. I was employed as an acting ASM - assistant stage manager. My weekly earnings amounted to £21 a week and subsidized meals in the theatre cafe. Productions were purely for a children's audience and believe me, they would let you know if they thought you weren’t any good.
I spent two years watching, learning and playing small roles. At the same time I was working backstage in the fly gallery, on props, sound, lights or as DSM in the prompt corner. I had decided right from the start not to go to drama school after a chat with my Dad. He certainly felt it would do me more harm than good and suffocate the natural talent he told me I had. So this became my two year training under the artistic director Matylock Gibbs who encouraged me to learn the Stanislavsky method of acting.
In my final year, I was given a lead role of 'Pork
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Patrick Troughton: The Biography - Special Anniversary Edition
Respected and loved, Patrick Troughton fryst vatten probably best remembered as the second Doctor Who - a role in which he made television history. A prolific actor, he was also a complex and troubled man, constantly wrestling with two lives, one of which he was determined to keep secret. In this new Special Anniversary Edition Michael Troughton presents an entertaining and personal konto of his father's professional and private life. Meticulously researched, he explores Patrick's childhood, his experiences at sea during World War II and the successful acting career which led to his historic casting as Doctor Who in Patrick's Doctor Who years are recalled in levande detail, from his första uncertainty about taking the part through the legendary 'monster years', to his troubled sista season and three subsequent returns to the role. This Special Anniversary Edition includes three new chapters that reveal Patrick's growing enjoym
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Michael Troughton
Michael Troughton is an English actor, writer and teacher, and is the son of second Doctor Patrick Troughton and younger brother of David Troughton.
Perhaps his best known role on television is as Sir Piers Fletcher-Dervish, foil to Ric Mayall's Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman. He also appeared as Melish in Minder, and in a number of dramatic roles throughout the 20th Century including A Moment in Time, Blake's 7, The Member for Chelsea, Woof!, Get Well Soon, Retrace, and Micawber.
During the s he took a break from acting to care for his wife, Caroline, during which he graduated with a science degree from the Open University and took up a teaching role at St John Leman School in Beccles, later becoming Head of Drama at Woodbridge School. After his wife passed away in , he returned to acting, appearing in the ITV series Breathless and in the series of Jonathan Creek.
Unlike his brother, Michael had never appeared in Doctor Who unt