Ian Marter
Born: 1944-10-28 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Died: 1986-10-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, these books were published under the pen name Ian Don - Don being his middle name. Marter died in 1986, on his 42nd birthday, from a heart attack associated with diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
Filmography
2025
- Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Myth Makers as Himself
1987
- Myth Runner as Himself (archive footage)
1986
- King of the Ghetto as Station Sergeant
- King of the Ghetto as Station Sergeant
- Who's Who
1985
- Doctor Who's Who's Who as Harry Sullivan
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Fereday
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Harry Sullivan (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Shine on Harvey Moon as Policeman
1981
- Bergerac as Cowman
- Doctor Who: Logopolis as Harry Sullivan (archive footage)
1980
- The Specialist as Journalist
1978
- The Medusa Touch as Detective
- The Waterloo Bridge Handicap as Lincoln's Inn (The Big Fancy)
1975
- North and South as Henry Lennox
- Doctor Who: Robot as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: The Ark in Space as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen as Harry Sullivan
1973
- The Emergency Channel as Literary Editor
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters as John Andrews
1972
- Crown Court as Quentin Ingrams
- Holly as Police Driver
1971
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes as 3rd Policeman
1967
- Doctor Faustus as Pride/Emperor
1966
1963
- Doctor Who as Harry Sullivan