Richard Franklin
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
Doctor Who
Heartbeat
The Saint
Blake's 7
Dixon of Dock Green
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Myth Makers
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
No Image
Little Women
The Ties That Bind Us
The Fiction Makers
Chemical Wedding
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
No Image
Chronotrip
Return to Devil's End
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
Doctor Who: The Green Death