Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untimely death at the age of 55 in a car accident whilst filming the Franco/German TV production La Cloche tibétaine in Turkey. He had married twice, firstly to Olga Anthonisz and then, following his divorce. to Kismet Shahani who survived him.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7476 |
| Birthday | 1918-03-01 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1964
Hot Enough for June
5.74/25
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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Hot Enough for June
1962
In Search of the Castaways
6.456/80
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the childr...
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In Search of the Castaways
1967
The Mummy's Shroud
5.438/56
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they un...
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The Mummy's Shroud
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
6.377/69
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is...
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The Battle of the River Plate
1969
The Assassination Bureau
6.665/85
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are c...
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The Assassination Bureau
1961
The Singer Not the Song
6.421/19
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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The Singer Not the Song
1977
The Last Appointment!
10/1
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
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The Last Appointment!
1956
Bhowani Junction
6.066/38
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
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Bhowani Junction
1956
The Advancing Shadow
0/0
1950s BBC Drama
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The Advancing Shadow
1970
Underground
7/2
An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
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Underground
1958
Sea Fury
6.143/7
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the ho...
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Sea Fury
1958
Mark of the Phoenix
5.333/6
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
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Mark of the Phoenix
1966
The Sandwich Man
6.5/8
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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The Sandwich Man
1972
Antony and Cleopatra
5.696/23
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. Th...
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Antony and Cleopatra
1959
First Man into Space
5.086/58
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
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First Man into Space
1955
Storm Over the Nile
6.35/10
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's com...
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Storm Over the Nile
1971
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
7.8/8
The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Auton...
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1972
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
7.6/8
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ship...
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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
5.9/5
The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter...
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Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1961
The Terror of the Tongs
5.735/34
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, th...
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The Terror of the Tongs
1970
You Can't Win 'Em All
6/39
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as...
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You Can't Win 'Em All
1962
The Road to Hong Kong
5.8/32
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust...
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The Road to Hong Kong
1953
The Captain's Paradise
5.667/24
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...
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The Captain's Paradise
1953
The Broken Horseshoe
7.5/2
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
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The Broken Horseshoe
1953
Blood Orange
5.5/9
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
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Blood Orange
1954
Beautiful Stranger
5.176/17
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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Beautiful Stranger
1954
Third Party Risk
4.75/10
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. B...
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Third Party Risk
1957
Manuela
6.286/7
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s...
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Manuela
1957
Man in the Shadow
8/1
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
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Man in the Shadow
1959
The Stranglers of Bombay
6.531/32
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousa...
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The Stranglers of Bombay
1960
Sands of the Desert
5.643/7
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort i...
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Sands of the Desert
1963
The Mind Benders
6.304/28
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might ha...
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The Mind Benders
1966
Khartoum
6.336/125
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
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Khartoum
1973
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
7.5/5
In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1971
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
7.6/8
On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a...
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Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
7.5/11
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Priso...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
6.8/7
A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled,...
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
6.6/7
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal...
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1957
The Case of The Smiling Widow
8/1
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
1963
The Running Man
6.681/47
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an in...
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The Running Man
1973
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
10/1
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win t...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
1983
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
7/3
A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a...
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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1993
Police 5: The Master
0/0
Shaw Taylor warns viewers to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual known as the Master.
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Police 5: The Master
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
0/0
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
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The Ties That Bind Us
2009
Roger Delgado: The Master
0/0
A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those...
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Roger Delgado: The Master
1956
Destination Death
10/1
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling...
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Destination Death
1972
Horror Express
6.313/329
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in...
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Horror Express
1965
Masquerade
5.118/17
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Masquerade
1967
The Crossfire
0/0
Tension increases among French settlers in Algeria. A secret ultranationalist group decides to take action against a doctor who treats Muslim patients...
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