Richard Franklin
Born: 1936-01-15 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died: 2023-12-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist. Principally a stage actor, he also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British television programmes, including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm, and he portrayed Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974, returning to the role on a number of occasions both on television and in Doctor Who spin-off media.
Filmography
2023
- Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster as (archive footage)
2022
- Saving Elodie as Granddad
2018
- Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa as Self
2016
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Engineer
2015
- Myth Makers as Himself
- Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2013
- Twilight of the Gods as Richard Wagner
- A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee as (archive footage)
2011
- Fred Dinenage - Murder Casebook as Self
- Life on Earth as Self
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Captain Mike Yates (archive footage)
- Chemical Wedding as Dean
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2002
1993
- Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time as Mike Yates
- Return to Devil's End as Self
1992
1986
- Blake's 7: Aftermath as Federation Trooper
1983
- Doctor Who: The Five Doctors as Captain Yates
1978
- Blake's 7 as Federation Trooper
1974
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as Mike Yates
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders as Mike Yates
1973
- Doctor Who: The Green Death as Captain Mike Yates
1972
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks as Captain Yates
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster as Captain Mike Yates
1971
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons as Captain Mike Yates
- Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos as Captain Mike Yates
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons as Captain Mike Yates
- Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil as Captain Mike Yates
1970
- Little Women as Jack Scott
1968
- The Fiction Makers as 2nd Guard
1963
- Doctor Who as Mike Yates
1962
- The Saint as 2nd Guard
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as 2nd PBX Operator