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RIP HAVOC founder Derek Ware
Derek Ware, the stuntman who worked on multiple Doctor Who stories during the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 77. His first story was the show’s premiere, An Unearthly Child, in […]
Derek Ware, the stuntman who worked on multiple Doctor Who stories during the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 77.
His first story was the show’s premiere, An Unearthly Child, in 1963. Other notable fights in the early black and white era appeared in The Aztecs, The Crusade and The Myth Makers. He also oversaw the epic battle in the Patrick Troughton story The Web of Fear.
The stunt team he founded, HAVOC, provided the fight sequences for many of the early Jon Pertwee stories including The Ambassadors of Death, Inferno (in which he played Private Wyatt, pictured) and The Claws of Axos, but HAVOC was dissolved after union rules were changed.
He was responsible for the mini chase in the original The Italian Job in 1969 and his work can be seen in the movies Krull, Willow and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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