Philip Madoc

[wellendcanons]

I've admired Philip Madoc for a long time and I would put among the all-time greats. He is such a talented character actor.

This morning I have been watching the DVD of the Dr Who adventure The Brain Of Morbius, whilst listening to the audio commentary. They seem to have had a good time on it. I've also got plans to watch The War Games, which I have also recently got on DVD. As of yet I've never seen this story. It was interesting to read on IMDb that The Brain Of Morbius was originally screened at the same time as Andrea Newman's Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. Philip was to star in the sequel Another Bouquet. He has also starred in the Dr Who stories The Krotons and The Power Of Kroll, making four Dr Who stories in total.

On other TV Philip has starred in; The Saint: The Counterfeit Countess - The Avengers: The Decapod, Six Hands Across A Table, Death Of A Batman, The Correct Way To Kill and My Wildest Dream - The Champions: Get Me Out Of Here - (No, not the reality TV series) - Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Never Trust A Ghost - Man In A Suitcase: Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins? and Who's Mad Now? - UFO: A Question Of Priorities, Destruction and Mindbender - Z Cars: In And Out parts 1 - 4 - Paul Temple: Cue Murder! - Jason King: A Page Before Dying - The Sweeney: Golden Fleece - Public Eye: The Morning Wasn't So Hot, It Had To Be A Mouse and They All Sound Simple At First - Space: 1999: Breakaway - The Expert: A Family Affair - The Inheritors: Pilot, Far Be It For Me, The Axeman Cometh and Double, Double... and The Man Outside: The Last Target. Philip also appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders, which was by coincidence called The Axeman Cometh.

In comedy Philip has appeared in; Dad's Army: The Deadly Attachment - Porridge: Disturbing The Peace and The Squirrels: Man Most likely To. He has also had TV appearences in major dramas such as; Manhunt, Monte Carlo, Ennal's Point, The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George, Target, A Mind To Kill and The Last Of The Mohicans.

In films Philip has appeared in; DrJekyll And Sister Hyde, Soft Beds, Hard Battles, The Quiller Memorandum, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Bequest To The Nation and Dalek's Invasion Earth: 2150 A. D.

wec

[Moor Larkin]

I've admired Philip Madoc for a long time and I would put among the all-time greats. He is such a talented character actor.

He never went to Hollywood did he? But seems to have been happiest in theatre:

Why did you become an actor?
I go back to the final words of Prospero. Where else could I get to speak such beautiful words?
Read more: Philip Madoc | Metro.co.uk

He seems often to have been cast as a wartime German for some reason or simply not British at any rate - must have been the Welsh accent.

[wellendcanons]

Here's Philip Madoc in A Mind To Kill.

wec

[cornershop15]

I could have sworn you'd already started a thread for him, wellend, and expected to find one during a forum search only yesterday. I'd just been screencapping Philip's scene in the Man in a Suitcase episode Somebody Loses, Somebody ... Wins? (1968). He plays a Kommandant who issues orders to British agent Jacqueline Pearce after she's defected to East Germany:

"Arrangements have been made for you to proceed to Dresden. If you have any queries make them there."

He often turns up when I'm watching something on DVD, mainly as a smiling villain. It's about time I saw Another Bouquet again - I enjoyed his scenes with Sheila Allen. Needless to say, I'm unhappy about the lost work - which includes two out of three appearances in Public Eye - but there's still so much else to enjoy.

[smudge]

It was a pleasure to meet Philip Madoc at the NEC a while ago. I just had to ask why he was so badly dubbed in his ep of THE CHAMPIONS; unsurprisingly I was reassured to discover that it was nothing to do with him (as I expected). He wasn't overly impressed with how A Mind To Kill was sold by Welsh TV saying, rightly, that it could have been a much bigger series than it was. Nice chap.

Smudge

[paul kersey]

I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms at the moment, due to the fact that I have finished watching Philip Madoc in "A Mind to kill". Having recently been able to purchase the entire three series and the pilot at a nice price from Network TV. To watch his acting is to watch a master at work, he really deserves more credit than he receives

[Windthrop]

I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms at the moment, due to the fact that I have finished watching Philip Madoc in "A Mind to kill". Having recently been able to purchase the entire three series and the pilot at a nice price from Network TV. To watch his acting is to watch a master at work, he really deserves more credit than he receives

Agree - I once saw him in a dreadful thriller at a local theatre twenty years ago and his bravura performance was its only saving grace - he couldn't save the play but he did at least save himself. Interestingly enough he had got his stage togs from Next (as I had and we wearing identical outfits - blazer, slacks, shoes, ties - the lot !).

[GRAEME]

His most recent credit is for a recurring character in a Welsh gangster drama called Y Pris . Anyone seen it? Is it available to the rest of us? Presumably it is Welsh language.



Looks great!

[Gerald Lovell]

Coincidentally, I'm just listening to Philip now in a DOCTOR WHO audio play called "Master": a small ensemble cast in a single setting with Philip as a police inspector and his resonant voice is a pleasure to hear.

wec: I hope you enjoy "The War Games". It's a privotal story, although probably too long (the result of other stories falling through) and even Patrick Troughton, behind whom I sat at a showing at the NFT 20 odd years ago, only lasted for the first four episodes, but Philip's quiet malevolence as the War Lord is very effective.

[Ivytree]

He's also done some wonderful radio dramas (that voice!), like a series of Brother Cadfael mysteries and a version of The Cruel Sea in which he is just superb as the Captain.

[CaptainWaggett]

Agree - I once saw him in a dreadful thriller at a local theatre twenty years ago and his bravura performance was its only saving grace - he couldn't save the play but he did at least save himself. Interestingly enough he had got his stage togs from Next (as I had and we wearing identical outfits - blazer, slacks, shoes, ties - the lot !).

He was Claudius in the first Hamlet I ever saw. I don't remember if we were dressed the same though...

This has to be his finest hour though

[wellendcanons]

Then there's this classic episode of Porridge. I've always admired the stamina of frogs ever since!

wec

[Moor Larkin]

This has to be his finest hour though

I doubt he would agree. I noticed that in his imdb list, he played an E Boat captain not long before, in some movie I've never heard of...... Hell Boats. Is this just coincidence I wonder?

I remember him quite vividly (well... as vividly as I remember anything) as Magua, superbly villainous in Last of the Mohicans, around that time too.

[billy farmer]

Here are some screencaps of Philip Madoc as Brockley in Dalek's Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966).

[wellendcanons]

Excellent screencaps Billy.

wec

[m35541]

I agree with someone above that he seemed to be cast as a lot of nazis in 1960s or 1970s war movies - probably because he looked and acted quite sinister back then. You can see him as a smirking German police officer in Operation Crossbow who blackmails Tom Courtney (whom he thinks is a simple murderer, not realising he is a British spy) and also in Operation Daybreak as one of Heydrich's underlings. His cameo as the Quisling in Daleks Invasion Earth (captioned above) is pretty meorable.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times feature about Philip Madoc from the March 3rd - 9th 1973 issue of TV Times.

[wellendcanons]

Thanks for the article Billy. I've been watching Philip over the last couple of weeks in the Dr Who ten parter The War Games. It was the first time I'd ever seen it. Philip was excellent as the war lord.

wec

[cornershop15]

Great contributions from billy farmer. I especially like the third capture from the Doctor Who film.

Re: Philip Madoc in 'Man in a Suitcase'

Further to post #4, some more images from his first appearance, this time with Jacqueline Pearce:

"You are studying at Bart's in two months time." - "Yes, Kommandant."


"The reports on your progress are satisfactory." - "Thank you."

Finally, an alternative shot to the one I posted last time, this time twiddling his pencil!

"That is all."

[wellendcanons]

Great screencaps again Cornershop.

wec