Ian Marter
Biography
Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, these books were published under the pen name Ian Don - Don being his middle name. Marter died in 1986, on his 42nd birthday, from a heart attack associated with diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
Known For
All Movies (21)
- Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter2025 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years2017
- Myth Runner1987 · as Himself (archive footage)
- Who's Who1986
- King of the Ghetto1986 · as Station Sergeant
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks1984 · as Harry Sullivan (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Doctor Who: Logopolis1981 · as Harry Sullivan (archive footage)
- The Specialist1980 · as Journalist
- The Waterloo Bridge Handicap1978 · as Lincoln's Inn (The Big Fancy)
- The Medusa Touch1978 · as Detective
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: The Ark in Space1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who: Robot1975 · as Harry Sullivan
- The Emergency Channel1973 · as Literary Editor
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters1973 · as John Andrews
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes1971 · as 3rd Policeman
- Doctor Faustus1967 · as Pride/Emperor
All TV Shows (14)
- Myth Makers2015 · as Himself
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes1986 · as Inspector Fereday
- King of the Ghetto1986 · as Station Sergeant
- Doctor Who's Who's Who1985 · as Harry Sullivan
- Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Inspector Fereday
- Shine on Harvey Moon1982 · as Policeman
- Bergerac1981 · as Cowman
- North and South1975 · as Henry Lennox
- Crown Court1972 · as Quentin Ingrams
- Crown Court1972 · as Constable Forbush
- Holly1972 · as Police Driver
- Softly, Softly1966
- Doctor Who1963 · as Harry Sullivan
- Doctor Who1963 · as John Andrews