Roger Delgado’s Last Appearance: Found!

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A couple of weeks ago, Doctor Who fan, actor, comedian and presenter Toby Hadoke shared something rather wonderful on his Facebook page, concerning the last few days of Roger Delgado’s life, and the situation regarding his final acting job.

For those of you who don’t know, Delgado – the original Master – died in a car accident in 1973. The received wisdom over the years has been that he was on the way to make a film in Turkey when the accident occured, leaving the production an actor short. It would seem that this is not the case. As Toby noted:

“A brilliant researcher who isn’t me has disproved the long held notion that Roger Delgado died on his way to film his last job in Turkey. And that it was a comedy film. It was in fact a French series and he died having shot his scenes for his episode.”

The series is called La Cloche tibétaine, with Delgado making his final appearance in episode 4.

Now, having viewed the clip in a slightly compressed, scene-by-scene manner (my French is poor) by skipping on YouTube, I was initially doubtful that Delagdo was actually in it, and that the scenes he filmed must have been reshot (making the assumption that his was a character key to the adventure).

Not so.

Thanks to Kasterborous friend Gareth Kavanagh, the scene has been identified, and can be found by skipping the video above to 13:00.

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