1. David Langton was born Basil Muir Langton-Dodds to a middle-class family in Motherwell, Scotland in 1912.
14 Facts About David Langton
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David Langton attended a prep school in Bath, Somerset, and left education at the age of 16.
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David Langton's father had always encouraged him to go into acting and got him his first job touring with a small Shakespearean company.
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At 19 years old, David Langton left the theatre and went to live on Yell, a remote island in Shetland, and became a sheep farmer while attempting to become a writer.
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David Langton first served in the Royal Artillery ending up a sergeant and was later commissioned in the Northumberland Hussars and ended up a major.
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David Langton later explained that he needed a break, and soon returned to Seagulls Over Sorrento, which finished its run in 1953.
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David Langton had started his television career in the 1950s and went on in the 1960s to appear in The Troubleshooters, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, The Champions, Dr Finlay's Casebook and Special Branch.
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David Langton appeared in films such as The Trials of Oscar Wilde, A Hard Day's Night and The Liquidator.
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In 1968, director Douglas Camfield chose David Langton to portray Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart in the Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear, but David Langton dropped out to perform in a TV play before production began.
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David Langton achieved international notice for playing husband and father Richard Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs which began in 1971.
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David Langton was given the role after a chance encounter with producer John Whitney at the Garrick Club in London.
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David Langton played Victor Frankham in Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, and appeared in the film The Whistle Blower opposite Michael Caine.
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David Langton continued to work as a theatre actor, appearing in Night and Day, Ross and Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
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David Langton married his second wife, Claire Green, the former wife of TV host Hughie Green, in May 1975.