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Barrie Ingham, who starred in Doctor Who and the Daleks, has died aged 83.

Ingham had a long career as a stage and screen actor, working with the RSC and appearing on Broadway. He was one of the lead Thals, Alydon, in the 1965 adaptation of the first Dalek serial, and around the same time, appeared in the main show as Paris in the Trojan War story The Myth Makers.

These weren’t his only genre appearances: he played Major Muncaster in the 1965 serial Invasion, based on a story by Robert Holmes, and encountered both The Avengers and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). In 1989, he played Danilo Odell in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Up the Long Ladder, and one of his last roles was in the 2005 miniseries, The Triangle, written by Bryan Singer, Dean Devlin and Rockne S. O’Bannon.

As a voice artist, he played Basil, The Great Mouse Detective as well as appearing in the Josh Kirby… Time Warrior! series.

He retired to Palm Beach, Florida, where he gave drama appreciation lessons.