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On This Day (USA) - 30 July



 Birthdays
Alexander Vlahos was 38 - 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 60 - 4 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 73 - 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


Jon Croft (died 2016 aged 81) would have been 91 - credited as Tom Girton in The Dæmons

Jon Croft's first credited role on television was as a chaplain in the 1963 version of Kidnapped. Appearances during the 1960s included Callan, Softly-Softly, The Newcomers and Out of the Unknown, and then into the 70s with Z-Cars, Jason King, The Protectors, Colditz and Van der Valk. As well as Doctor Who, more substantial roles included Blewitt in Poldark, Mr Ashburton in Matilda's England, West in A Question of Guilt, and during the 1980s as Jim Hadnett in Chelworth and the 90s as John Hasty in Forever Green. Other appearances in his later career included The Bill and Casualty, but also series like Kavanagh QC, Hamish Macbeth and Jeeves and Wooster.

Film appearances include a colonel in Ghandi, and a soldier in A Bridge Too Far, and theatre work included touring with The Lady's Not For Burning in Scotland in 1966, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe in 1975, and The Case of David Anderson Q.C. in 1980.


Alan Curtis (died 2021 aged 90) would have been 96 - 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.