Acting
Jon Rollason
Born 1931-04-09 · Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Jon Rollason (9 April 1931 – 20 February 2016) was an English television actor, broadcaster and writer. He is best remembered for the role of Dr. Martin King in The Avengers. He appeared in episodes of Doctor Who (as Harold Chorley in The Web of Fear), Z-Cars, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly, and the soap opera Crossroads. For the last of these, he also wrote the scripts for some episodes.[4]
Acting credits
6.8Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.
We Are the Lambeth Boys
1959
7.7The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The time travellers learn this crisis was precipitated when Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas some thirty years earlier, accidentally caused one of the Yeti to be reactivated, opening the way for the Intelligence to invade again.
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
1968
NRThe Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
Routine Adventure
1965