British film, TV and voice actor David Graham died on September 20. He was 99. David Graham provided the voice for characters in TV series including ‘Peppa Pig’, ‘Thunderbirds’ and ‘Doctor Who’. As the voice behind the evil Daleks in ‘Doctor Who’, Graham terrified successive generations of children between the 1960s and late 1970s. Graham was born in London on July 11, 1925, and trained in New York City, at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner, following service in the Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic. He returned to England and began his theatre career, and television. Graham met writer and producer Gerry Anderson, who was planning his first puppet productions. Graham said that he could pull off accents well, which led to his first voiceover role in ‘Four Feather Falls’, as Grandpa Twink, who he based on Walter Brennan. He would subsequently voice Dr. Beaker, Zarin and Mitch the Monkey in ‘Supercar’, Mat Matic and Lieutenant Ninety in ‘Fireball XL5’ and various guest characters in ‘Stingray’. Graham would also play Johnny in ‘Crossroads to Crime’, a live-action film Anderson directed. Graham was also the voice of Fernando and Big Ben both bandits on the British TV puppet series “Four Feather Falls” (1960). He played Charlie the bartender in the 1966 British televsion episode of 'Dr. Who's - The Gunfighters'.
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