John Carson obituary | Television & radio | The Guardian

I am very sad to hear this news. John was a lovely man (I worked with him in 1979 on the tour of a play, Deadline, written by his second wife and widow, Luanshya Greer) but we were out of touch until about three or four years ago. My heart goes out to his family.

John Carson, right, with Paul Darrow, left, and Ray Lonnen, in Guardian of the Abyss, 1980, one of the episodes of the Hammer House of Horror television series. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

John Carson, who has died aged 89, was a busy actor whose velvet voice and distinguished looks could flit easily between cold villainy or testy eccentricity. This made him much in demand on screen in many popular television series and during his cinematic association with Hammer Films.

Having secured his big break (two shows a week for £40 per week) as Dr Donald Latimer in the popular hospital soap opera Emergency Ward 10 (1959), he was…

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