Sexton Blake

Born, 5 June 1919
Died, 23 February 2009

Johnny Ringo

Laurence Payne, appeared in three classic Doctor Who serials. He was gunslinger Johnny Ringo in "The Gunfighters" in 1966, dying Argolin leader Morix in "The Leisure Hive", 1980, and the traiterous scientist Dastari in "The Two Doctors", 1985.

Laurence Payne had a distinguished stage career, including a long run at the Old Vic in the 1940s, and played Romeo in Peter Brook's 1947 production of "Romeo and Juliet" at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Dastari

On television, he was best known as the 1920s detective Sexton Blake in the ITV serial, which ran from 1967 to 1971.

Morix