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On This Day (USA) - 30 July

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Alexander Vlahos was 36 - 7 credits, including Dorian Gray in The War Master: Escape from Reality

Alexander Vlahos is a Welsh actor best known for playing Mordred in the BBC One television series Merlin, and for his role in The Indian Doctor as Tom Evans.

He was a voice artist in the online game The Gunpowder Plot

Jason Watkins was 58 - 2 credits, including Mr Webley in Nightmare in Silver

Jason Watkins is also no stranger to sci-fi/fantasy, having played the vampire leader Herrick in Being Human; other credits appearances include Lark Rise To Candleford, Little Dorrit, Psychoville, Dirk Gently, and as Gavin in Sky's Trollied.

Phil Davis was 71 - credited as Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii

Philip Davis is an English film actor, writer and director who has appeared in many films and television series. He has written and directed various dramas during his career.

He appeared in the 2008 Doctor Who story The Fires of Pompeii

Alan Curtis (died 2021 aged 90) would have been 94 - credited as Major Green in The War Machines

Alan Curtis is an English actor and announcer.

He appeared in the 1966 story, The War Machines.

He was born in Coulsdon, Surrey and he has led a long career in the cinema, television and theatre. He has also acted for the MCC as an announcer at Lord's Cricket Ground. Alan now lives in West London.

Deaths

Peggy Dixon (died 2005 aged 84) - credited as Dancer in The Masque of Mandragora

Peggy Dixon played a Dancer in the Doctor Who story The Masque of Mandragora.

Guy Middleton (died 1973 aged 65) - credited as Colonel Attwood in The Highlanders

Guy Middleton was an English film character actor.

He played Colonel Attwood in the Doctor Who serial The Highlanders.

Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, England and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s. In his earlier films he often portrayed an amiable idiot, but many of his later roles were military officers in the British Army, RAF or Royal Navy.

He died in 1973, following a heart attack, aged 65.