Vale: Stewart Bevan

British actor Stewart Bevan, best known for Doctor Who, has died aged 73.

Ex-partner and co-star Katy Manning described him as “the most beautiful man, poet, actor, screenwriter, husband and father”.

“He was the love in my life for many years on and off screen and our wonderful friendship continued to the end.”

Bevan appeared in six episodes of Doctor Who‘s 10th season as Professor Clifford Jones, a Welsh biologist who helps the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) defeat Global Chemicals, an oil plant run by a megalomaniacal supercomputer.

He starred in the span of episodes alongside Manning, who played The Doctor’s companion Jo Grant, and Nicholas Courtney, who played Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Manning and Bevan were also a couple in real-life at the time, having been engaged during the filming of Bevan’s Doctor Who episodes, however the couple separated a year after the show was recorded.

His other credits included Number 10, Silent Witness, Emmerdale Farm, The Bill, Grange Hill, Casualty, Ivanhoe, Blake’s 7, Dick Turpin, Brookside and his last TV role as that of a chairman of the jury in The Brief.

Film credits included Burke & Hare, Spy Story, Chromophobia and The Scouting Book for Boys.

Source: Radio Times