Richard Franklin
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist. Principally a stage actor, he also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British television programmes, including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm, and he portrayed Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974, returning to the role on a number of occasions both on television and in Doctor Who spin-off media.
Known for
Credits
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
as Engineer
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis (2001)
Actor
Blake's 7: Aftermath (1986)
as Federation Trooper
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
as Mike Yates
The Fiction Makers (1968)
as 2nd Guard
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks (1972)
as Captain Yates
The Ties That Bind Us (2008)
as Captain Mike Yates (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Dæmons (1971)
as Captain Mike Yates
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos (1971)
as Captain Mike Yates
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)
as Captain Yates
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster (2023)
as (archive footage)
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee (2013)
as (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Time Monster (1972)
as Captain Mike Yates
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil (1971)
as Captain Mike Yates
Chemical Wedding (2008)
as Dean
Chronotrip (2002)
Actor
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (1974)
as Mike Yates
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993)
as Mike Yates
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (2001)
as Himself
Waving to a Train (1984)
as Young Richard
Doctor Who: The Green Death (1973)
as Captain Mike Yates
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons (1971)
as Captain Mike Yates
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 (2008)
Actor
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage (2015)
Actor
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning? (1998)
Actor
Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee (1992)
Actor
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years (2017)
Actor
Return to Devil's End (1993)
as Self
Twilight of the Gods (2013)
as Richard Wagner
Life on Earth (2011)
as Self
Saving Elodie (2022)
as Granddad