Acting
Roy Skelton
Born July 20, 1931 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Died June 8, 2011 · aged 79
Roy Skelton was an English voice artist, he was Born in Nottingham and is best known for his roles as Zippy and George on Rainbow (characters which he performed unit his death in 2011), and several Doctor Who villains including the Daleks, Cybermen and the Krotons.
Known For
Frenzy · 1972Frenzy
★ 7.11972
MovieCrimeThriller
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
The Prophet · 1967The Prophet
1967
MovieScience FictionTV Movie
Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receivers on Earth. But QT-1 (Cutie) has some strange bees in his positronic bonnet. How could weak creatures of protoplasm create a nearly invincible, totally logical entity like himself? It is up to his human supervisors, Powell and Donovan, to convince Cutie of his niche in creation before his new robot theology becomes a threat to all life on Earth.
Doctor Who: The Krotons · 1969Doctor Who: The Krotons
★ 6.41969
MovieScience FictionDrama
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks · 1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
★ 8.71985
MovieDramaAction
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious Great Healer.
There's a Girl in My Soup · 1970There's a Girl in My Soup
★ 5.51970
MovieComedyRomance
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks · 1975Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
★ 8.91975
MovieScience FictionAdventure
The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks · 2025Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025
MovieScience Fiction
The Doctor and Tegan arrive in Butler's Wharf, London... where they have some unfinished business with a very old enemy!
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death · 1999Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
★ 7.41999
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
Movies
Frenzy · 1972Frenzy
★ 7.11972
MovieCrimeThriller
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
The Prophet · 1967The Prophet
1967
MovieScience FictionTV Movie
Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receivers on Earth. But QT-1 (Cutie) has some strange bees in his positronic bonnet. How could weak creatures of protoplasm create a nearly invincible, totally logical entity like himself? It is up to his human supervisors, Powell and Donovan, to convince Cutie of his niche in creation before his new robot theology becomes a threat to all life on Earth.
Doctor Who: The Krotons · 1969Doctor Who: The Krotons
★ 6.41969
MovieScience FictionDrama
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks · 1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
★ 8.71985
MovieDramaAction
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious Great Healer.
There's a Girl in My Soup · 1970There's a Girl in My Soup
★ 5.51970
MovieComedyRomance
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks · 1975Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
★ 8.91975
MovieScience FictionAdventure
The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks · 2025Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025
MovieScience Fiction
The Doctor and Tegan arrive in Butler's Wharf, London... where they have some unfinished business with a very old enemy!
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death · 1999Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
★ 7.41999
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks · 1973Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
★ 7.01973
MovieDramaAction
On the jungle planet Spiridon, the Doctor, Jo and a Thal group find a slumbering army of Daleks ready to awaken.
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley · 2009Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
★ 9.02009
MovieMusicAnimation
Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated children's television shows in a medley of seven songs: 1. "Can You Feel It" 2. "Don't Stop" 3. "Jai Ho!" 4. "Tubthumping" 5. "Never Forget" 6. "Hey Jude" 7. "One Day Like This"
The Dalek Tapes · 2006The Dalek Tapes
★ 7.52006
MovieDocumentary
A look at the appearances of the Daleks and Davros in the classic Doctor Who era.
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion · 1975Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
★ 7.01975
MovieAdventureDrama
The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear · 1976Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
★ 7.61976
MovieScience FictionDrama
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors · 1967Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
★ 7.31967
MovieDramaAdventure
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors · 1983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
★ 7.81983
MovieScience FictionAction
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet · 1966Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
★ 7.91966
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the base personnel's suspicions are roused, the Doctor informs them that the space capsule is being affected by the gravitational pull of another planet — a tenth planet in the Solar system.
Doctor Who: The Ark · 1966Doctor Who: The Ark
★ 6.81966
MovieScience FictionDrama
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starship which is carrying the last of humanity away from an Earth that is about to fall into the Sun. However, the cold that Dodo has could prove devastating to these future humans and their servants, the Monoids.
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space · 1968Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
★ 5.81968
MovieDramaAction
The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young parapsychology librarian, The Doctor hits his head concussing him leaving Jamie and Zoe to defend off the Cybermen from taking over "The Wheel in Space."
Doctor Who: The Green Death · 1973Doctor Who: The Green Death
★ 8.41973
MovieScience FictionDrama
The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It's an adventure that will change Jo Grant's life forever...
Night After Night After Night · 1969Night After Night After Night
★ 5.61969
MovieHorrorCrime
There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh sentences to everyone who comes before him.
Carnival of Monsters · 1999Carnival of Monsters
★ 7.01999
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
A look at the various monsters that have appeared in Doctor Who.
Doctor Who: Colony in Space · 1971Doctor Who: Colony in Space
★ 6.61971
MovieScience FictionDrama
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks · 1988Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
★ 8.91988
MovieScience FictionDrama
London, 1963: The Doctor returns to the place where it all began — alongside his latest companion, Ace, with unfinished business. Not for the first time, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School. At 76 Totter's Lane, the Doctor discovers that his oldest foes — the Daleks — are on the trail of stolen Time Lord technology that he left on Earth long ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability, in order to unleash themselves across the whole of time and space.
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks · 1979Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
★ 5.51979
MovieActionAdventure
The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro to find that the Daleks, locked in a war with the robotic Movellans, have returned to retrieve their buried creator Davros.
TV Shows
Doctor Who · 1963Doctor Who
★ 7.91963
SeriesDrama
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.
Rainbow · 1972Rainbow
★ 6.81972
SeriesComedy
Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Join George, Bungle, Zippy, and all their friends at the Rainbow House, always an exciting place to be.
Z-Cars · 1962Z-Cars
★ 7.31962
SeriesDrama
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
The Bill · 1984The Bill
★ 6.81984
SeriesCrimeDrama
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Sooty Show · 1955The Sooty Show
★ 6.41955
SeriesComedy
The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.
Ashes to Ashes · 2008Ashes to Ashes
★ 7.72008
SeriesCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
Harry Hill's TV Burp · 2002Harry Hill's TV Burp
★ 6.32002
SeriesComedy
The big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular characters
The Last of the Mohicans · 1971The Last of the Mohicans
★ 5.51971
SeriesDramaFamily
The adventures of Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo and his Indian companions, caught in a war between the French and English in upstate New York in 1757.