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Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 – 3 May 2004) was a British actor. He was the fourth actor to portray the Master in Doctor Who. Early life.
Anthony Ainley was a notable British actor and a member of a distinguished British acting family. His brother was Richard Ainley (1910-1967) and his father Henry Ainley (1879-1945). He worked in the theatre for many years and eventually found work in various historical film dramas in the 1970s.
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The time-travelling hero met his Reichenbach Falls moment with his arch enemy when, in 1981, Tom Baker was toppled from a radar dish by Anthony Ainley, who has died aged 71. The renegade time lord ...
Anthony Ainley was a British actor and a member of a distinguished acting family. He is best known for playing the Master, a smooth and aristocratic villain, in the science fiction series Doctor Who (1963).
- August 20, 1932
- May 3, 2004
Cover blurb: The biography of Anthony Ainley. Although known to an audience of millions the world over for his portrayal of The Doctor’s arch nemesis The Master in Doctor Who during the 1980′s, Anthony Ainley had a prolific career which encompassed starring roles in Spyders Web and It’s Dark Outside, as well as appearances in renowned dramas such as The Pallisers, Elizabeth R, Nicholas ...
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Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932-3 May 2004[1]) was an actor best known for his recurring role as the Tremas Master in Doctor Who, portraying the character's third major form from 1981 to the programme's end in 1989. He reappeared in this role in the 1997 video game Destiny of the Doctors. He was born in London, England on 20 August 1932, son of Henry Ainley, a West-End actor, and brother of ...
When Anthony Ainley takes over as the Master (in The Keeper of Traken, the Master possesses the body of the noble Tremas, who was played by Ainley throughout the story), his portrayal showed the Master as almost singularly obsessed with humiliating and destroying the Doctor; while possessing the same level of intelligence and cunning that his ...
