Tom Kelly

Acting

Biography

Tom Kelly is a British actor, noted for his roles in television. He appeared in three Doctor Who serials (The Face of Evil, The Sun Makers and The Invasion of Time), as well as Blake's 7, Sapphire & Steel and Dempsey and Makepeace.

Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Varian (voice)

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#2Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Guard

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#3Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Vardan (voice)

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#4Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Vardan

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#5Boy Meets World

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Announcer John

8.3 / 10
DramaComedyFamily

The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man.

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#6Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Hugh Russell-Smith

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#7Blake's 7

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Nova

7.3 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

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#8Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Tom Clyde

6.7 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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#9Shine on Harvey Moon

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Mr. Barker

7.7 / 10
Drama

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

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#10In Sickness and in Health

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Man in Pub

8.1 / 10
Comedy

This final follow-up to 'Till Death Us Do Part' follows an aged Alf Garnett, now dealing with his wife Else's declining health and mobility, as well as the challenges of navigating the social security system and other everyday situations.

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#11Sapphire & Steel

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Soldier / Pearce

7.3 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read. None of the stories had onscreen titles, or any official titles assigned by the writers. The Region 1 Complete Series DVD release gives the titles "Escape Through a Crack in Time", "The Railway Station", "The Creature's Revenge", "The Man Without a Face", "Dr. McDee Must Die" and "The Trap", respectively. These titles have often been cited as having been created by science fiction magazine Time Screen.

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#12Unnatural Causes

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Young Husband

6.3 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology of seven psychological dramas, each with a different cast and crew, exploring deaths in unusual circumstances.

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#13The Legend of King Arthur

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Sir Bedivere

7.5 / 10
Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Dark Ages wizard Merlin, weary of the barbarism around him, creates a new order of enlightenment and justice with a youthful Arthur at its head. Merlin gifts Arthur with the magic legendary sword Excalibur to help him defeat the nobles who oppose his rule. But Arthur must also beware his half-sister Morgan, a sorceress who has sworn to kill him to avenge her father's death. As Morgan intensifies her plans for revenge, she uses magic to draw Lancelot and Guinevere into a passionate affair. However, it is the still more traitorous Mordred who will ultimately determine the fate of Arthur's rule.

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#14Julius Caesar

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Claudius / Antony's Servant

8.7 / 10
DramaTV MovieHistory

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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#15Ring of Passion

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as First Newsman

7.0 / 10
ActionDramaHistory

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.

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#16Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Guard

8.0 / 10
Sci-FiDramaAdventure

The Doctor arrives on a planet where two tribes, the savage Sevateem and the technically brilliant Tesh, are at war. He meets Leela, an exile from the Sevateem, and discovers that the tribes' god of evil is apparently himself...

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#17At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Paul Crotenberg

8.8 / 10
DramaDocumentary

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.

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#18Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Guard

7.0 / 10
ActionAdventureDrama

Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing Mankind to colonise first Mars and then Pluto. No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by artificial suns. The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive to discover the exploitation of the Megropolis people by the ruling elite, lead by the Collector. Deep in the Undercity, a small group of revolutionaries plot to overthrow the company and the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the people using Fire against Fire...

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#19Sweet Wine of Youth

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Hugh Russell-Smith

8.8 / 10

A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems

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#20An Affinity with Dr. Still

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Russell

8.8 / 10

A tragic event shatters the complacent calm of a great university. Haunted by it, Peter Molyneux turns up at the Italian villa of Dr Still.

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