Brian Miller (actor)
British actor
Brian Reginald Miller (born 17 April 1941) is a British actor and television personality. His credits include Brazil (1985),
Blake's 7 (1979), Doctor Who (including the stories Snakedance (1983), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) and Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), as well as the stageplay The Trial of Davros) and its spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures (2009), Casualty (2012), and Coronation Street (2012).
Career
Miller and his wife, Elisabeth Sladen, moved to Liverpool after she left Doctor Who where they performed in a series of plays including a two-person production Mooney and his Caravans. In 1978, they appeared together in the ITV drama Send In The Girls.
In 1985, Miller played Mr Buttle starring alongside Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm in the Terry Gilliam film Brazil (1985).
Other television series in which he has appeared include Blake's 7 (in the episode "Horizon"), The Bill, Angels and Casualty. He has an occasional role in the radio serial The Archers as Jason the builder.
Miller played Cliff Pughes in Coronation Street, and Mark in Wizards vs Aliens.
Doctor Who
He has performed in various Doctor Who productions, appearing as Dugdale in the serial Snakedance (1983), providing Dalek voices in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) and Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), playing the role of Wiston in the 2005 stage production of The Trial of Davros, and playing the tramp Barney in the 2014 episode "Deep Breath".
Miller and Sladen performed alongside their daughter in a number of Sarah Jane Smith audio plays, released by Big Finish Productions.
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