The Avengers : Supporting Cast

The Supporting Cast
of Season 5 (1967-8)
of The Avengers

A core personnel of actors and stunt people assisted the production of The Avengers. They often replaced the leads, not only in stunts, but also in long exteriors and minor action sequences, while the actors they were replacing were recording close-ups and dialogue. Often uncredited, always unheralded, these workhorses of the industry kept the series and the stars shining brightly.

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This page makes particular reference to Peter J. Elliott, who may just have appeared in every episode of the season...

From Venus With Love

Or maybe not.

Still, there's the mysterious Martin, evil henchman of the villainous Dr Primble to ponder over. Just who is this man? I'm guess it's Terry Richards or someone, but I'm not sure. The same actor is the Executioner in "Escape in Time"

The Fear Merchants

Peter J. Elliott as Crawley's Chauffeur.
Peter J. Elliott is the stand-in/extra/stuntman for the show. I strongly suspect him of being in every episode at one point or another - we'll see if getting the DVDs will help me prove that. Here he briefly appears as an unconscious chauffeur, wearing a blonde wig.

Escape In Time

Rocky Taylor as Mitchell
There's a joke here - Rocky Taylor was regularly used as Patrick Macnee's stunt-double, so regularly impersonated Steed. In this episode, Mitchell (Taylor) is caught by Mrs Peel impersonating Steed for the body-switch at Mackiedockie Court. Life imitates art.
Or is it art imitates itself imitating life?

...and as 18th Century Soldier

...and as Josino's double

...and as an 18th Century philanderer
Here he is again! Can nothing stop this man?

Terry Plummer as Executioner

The See-Through Man

Peter J. Elliott as Embassy Guard

? as Lord Daviot

? as Major Alexandr Vazin

The Bird Who Knew Too Much

Peter J. Elliott, wearing an auburn wig, impersonates Mrs Peel for the scene where she dives off the high board into the pool. Peter Elliott was to go on to be an Olympic medallist in diving.

Also, Peter Brace, hard-working stuntman - he's still doing it today, 23 years later! - appeared as the short-lived spy, Percy Danvers. See him to better effect as one on the goons in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (which also features Cyd Child, Diana Rigg's regular stunt double).

The Winged Avenger

The Living Dead

Alister Williamson as Tom

Peter J. Elliott - or maybe Peter Clay? as Gas mask-wearing agent

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Look closely enough and you'll probably pick out all the members of Havoc in this bunch. I'll see if I can identify them properly in the fullness of time.

The Hidden Tiger

? as Undertaker

? as Pallbearer 1

Peter J. Elliott as Pallbearer 2

The Correct Way To Kill

Romo Gorrara as Arkadi
A regular on pretty much every British television show of the day, and a fair swag of films as well, he'll pop up again in "The £50,000 Breakfast". He was also in "The Danger Makers".

? as Zorick
Don't know who he is but he was also in "The Danger Makers", and turns up (very briefly) in "Murdersville".

Never, Never Say Die

John Junkin as Sergeant

Peter Dennis as Private

Geoffrey Reed as Carter

Alan Chuntz as Selby
Alan Chuntz was one of the mainstays of British television, being a member of Havoc, a group of stuntspeople who performed on pretty much every series including Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Blakes Seven and The Avengers.

Arnold Ridley as Elderly Gent
Arnold Ridley was the last of the great music hall artistes - best known and greatly loved for his rôle as the doddery eldest member of the Home Guard unit in Dad's Army.

? as NRU Security Man

? as Hospital Orderly

Epic

The Superlative Seven

Terry Plummer as Toy Sung
There are several uncredited actors and actresses at the beginning of the episode, playing Jessel's formidable fighters.

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station

Peter J Elliott as Attendant

? as Unnamed Thug

? as Hostess

? as Georgie

Something Nasty In The Nursery

The Joker

Who's Who???

Philip Levene as Daffodil

? as Poppy

? as Pansy

Peter J. Elliott as Marigold

? as Bluebell

? as Carnation

? as Cornflower

Return of the Cybernauts

Terry Richards as The Cybernaut

Death's Door

Peter Thomas as Saunders

William Lyon Brown as Dalby

Terry Yorke as Haynes

Terry Maidment as Jepson

Terry Yorke, Peter Brace (see The Bird Who Knew Too Much) and Terry Plummer (see The Superlative Seven) appeared in The Pink Panther Strikes Again as henchmen of the lunatic Dreyfus, and Terry Maidment appeared in it as a hired assassin. Dreyfus also employed the services of the Powell brothers (see Mission... Highly Improbable), Terry Richards (Return of the Cybernauts) and a few others. The film's a sort of reunion for Avengers stunt personnel - Cyd Child (stunt double for Diana Rigg) also appeared as a bouncer in a gay bar.

The £50,000 Breakfast

Jon Laurimore as Security Man

Richard Owens as Mechanic

Romo Gorrara as Unnamed Thug

? as Sixties Babe

? as Band Leader

Peter Clay ? as Landrover Driver
Seen throughout the series stunting for the leads and other characters, he's only ever billed in Mission Highly... Improbable.

Les Crawford as Male Farmhand
Another regular stuntman for the series, Les gets a screen credit in You Have Just Been Murdered as Morgan.

Cyd Child as Female Farmhand
Regular stuntwoman on the series - double for both Diana Rigg and Tara King - Cyd performs a simple roll off a haystack here.

Dead Man's Treasure