Gareth Thomas, Blake's 7 actor, dies aged 71
Yet he remains best known for Blake's 7, which ran on BBC One from to
At its peak, the series was watched by 10 million viewers and was sold to 40 countries.
Thomas claimed never to have watched a single episode of the show, which was derided by some for its shaky sets and basic special effects.
The show also had a distinctly pessimistic tone - typified by the final episode, in which all the main characters were apparently killed off.
Reports of the actor's death began to circulate after a Blake's 7 fan site announced, external he had died on Wednesday from heart failure.
"Our thoughts are with his wife Linda, and his family and friends," the message continued.
His death was confirmed by a friend who worked on a Blake's 7 remake, according to the Press Association.
Fans, friends and former colleagues have been paying their respects on Twitter, among them an actress who said she had appeared with him on stage in Salisbury.
"Our characters hated each other but he was a lovely actor and a lovely man," tweeted Ruth Mitchell, external.
Broadcaster Muriel Gray, meanwhile, said she had
Gareth Thomas, Actor: A Performance Biography
Welcome to this site dedicated to the work of actor Gareth Thomas
Over a career that spanned six decades, Gareth Thomas played an extraordinary array of roles on stage and screen as well as in a wealth of audio recordings.
This archive is being built as a tribute and to provide a lasting and publicly-accessible record of Gareth&#;s work.
If reposting material from this website, please include a link back to it, and an appropriate credit.
On February 12th (Gareth&#;s birthday), this site is one year old. Diane Gies has very kindly provided the following recording of the delightful message that Gareth made for her in to celebrate the first anniversary of the Horizon website. We trust he wouldn&#;t mind it appearing again here to commemorate the first anniversary of this site created in his memory and to celebrate his career.
In Memoriam Linda Thomas (née Rusby)
Acknowledgements: The creator of this site is very grateful for the invaluable support of Diane Gies, for Alison&#;s technical assistance, and especially to Linda Thomas and Glyn Thomas who have so kindly granted access to Gareth&#;s papers and photographs. Ot
Gareth Thomas, Actor: A Performance Biography
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Gareth won his first film role shortly after graduating from RADA, in the cult classic Quatermass and the Pit (directed by Roy Baker). It was a small speaking part; he plays the workman who breaks through the wall of the London Underground tunnel at the beginning of the film.
A copy of his (clearly used on set) Call Sheet exists. Gareth was in for one day, the 38th day of the shoot. His was the 3rd scene shot on this particular day, 21st April (the scene number itself is Scene 2). He had a dressing room to himself (B ), was called to Makeup at am, and to set for am.
Above images courtesy of Linda Thomas
Gareth Thomas, Actor: A Performance Biography
There is a reference in Gareth&#;s RADA record to &#;TV work, for Alan Davidson&#; in the Autumn of (which could have been an advertisement), but his earliest documented television appearance was in a production of Zigger Zagger, the play by Peter Terson. It had been commissioned, workshopped, and then performed by the National Youth Theatre at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre (in Holborn, London) in August , and was subsequently broadcast by the BBC on September 27th of that year. Gareth played the Youth Employment Officer, a part which involved singing. Sadly, only a fragment of the broadcast performance survives, ironically as a clip within an episode of Talkback on October 3rd , in which some viewers were complaining about the subject-matter (football hooliganism). Gareth doesn&#;t appear in the surviving clip, however a programme cover from the stage production exists:
Above image from Wikipedia&#;s entry on Zigger Zagger
His second television role was in an adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence short story, The Thorn in the Flesh, of which a copy survives on a film reel in the ITV archives. It aired on the 23rd October
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