RIP Nicholas Courtney 1929-2011
Feb. 23rd, 2011 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesAs with so many of my friends list, I salute the passing of Nick Courtney, forever known to fandom as Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the Whoniverse, appearing intermittently as that character on the tv show from from 1968 to 2008, and in a number of the audio adventures.
I never had the chance to meet him, but by all accounts he was a gentle and lovely man. I will remember him, and the pleasure his acting brought me. He will live in on the hearts of my generation of Who fandom, and perhaps in the new generation too.
I never had the chance to meet him, but by all accounts he was a gentle and lovely man. I will remember him, and the pleasure his acting brought me. He will live in on the hearts of my generation of Who fandom, and perhaps in the new generation too.
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Date: 2011-02-24 04:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-02-25 12:53 pm (UTC)Always a soft spot for The Brigadier, who never really had a full picture of what was going on and was always left to clear up the mess left behind after everyone else had done having fun. I also have a vague memory of him standing alone in the Doctor's Lab while the TARDIS dematerialised and feeling incredibly sorry for him knowing that everyone else was off on a grand adventure while he was left behind.