Patrick Troughton


Patrick George Pat Troughton was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction, and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the longrunning British sciencefiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969 he reprised the role in 1973, 1983, and 1985.

Troughton was born onMarch 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert , and a younger sister, Mary Edith . Troughton attended Mill Hill School and continued to live in Mill Hill for most of his life. While at Mill Hill School, he acted in a production of J.B. Priestleys Bees on the Boat Deck in March 1937. His brother A.R. Troughton shared the 1933 Walter Knox Prize for Chemistry with the future Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick, who also attended Mill Hill School.

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