Barry Jackson (actor)

Barry Jackson (29 March 1938 – 5 December 2013) was an English stage, film and television actor.

His film career included roles in Ryan's Daughter, Barry Lyndon, Aces High, The Raging Moon, Mr. Love, and Wimbledon.

His television credits included: A for Andromeda, The Mask of Janus, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Special Branch, The Troubleshooters, Man at the Top, Doomwatch, Public Eye, Poldark, Oil Strike North, The New Avengers, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Coronation Street, Enemy at the Door, All Creatures Great and Small, Minder, Bergerac, Lovejoy, Casualty, Peak Practice, Silent Witness, Kavanagh QC, The Bill, A Touch of Frost, Holby City, Heartbeat and Midsomer Murders.

Jackson appeared in Doctor Who in the show's original run, including the stories The Romans, Galaxy 4 and Mission to the Unknown.

Jackson later returned to the show and played "Drax," a school chum of the Doctor, in the Fourth Doctor story The Armageddon Factor.

Written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, it was a one-off television play broadcast as part of a BBC1 new play series on 21 March 1972.

In 1977 he appeared as a Lock-Keeper in the Secret Army episode Identity in Doubt. This was followed in 1980 by his appearance as farmer Ken Billings in the All Creatures Great and Small episode, Matters of Life and Death. Jackson later played another Yorkshire farmer, Jim Hobson, in the Heartbeat episode, Risky Business.

He also starred in Horace, a drama about a middle-aged man with the mind of a 10-year-old.

It was later revived as a TV series in 1982.

It was arguably the first mainstream UK TV serial that had a person with a learning disability as the protagonist.

All episodes are thought to be in existence but have yet to be released.

He appeared in the first fourteen series of Midsomer Murders as Dr George Bullard, the pathologist, although he did not appear in series two.

The character outlasted the show's original lead, DCI Tom Barnaby, by one season.

He died in London on 5 December 2013, aged 75, from cancer.