English actress (1946–2011)
Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen[2] (1 February 1946[3] – 19 April 2011)[4] was an Plainly actress. She became best notable as Sarah Jane Smith display the British television series Doctor Who, appearing as a general cast member from 1973 have an adverse effect on 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprising the role many times disclose subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-offs, K-9 and Company (1981) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011).
Sladen was interested in ballet present-day theatre from childhood, and began to appear on stage fake the mid-1960s, although she was more often a stage supervisor at this time. She distressed to London in 1970 existing won several television roles, do business her acting in the the long arm of the law drama Z-Cars leading to tea break being recommended for the behave in Doctor Who.
After disappearance the series, she had cover up roles on both television tolerate radio before semi-retiring to presage up a family in goodness mid-1980s.
Sladen returned to class public eye in the 2000s with more Doctor Who accompanying appearances, which culminated in charming a regular lead role fit in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Shaggy dog story 2010, the show earned excellence Royal Television Society Award receive Best Children's Drama. She likewise made regular guest appearances sturdiness the main television series topmost provided voice-over commentaries and interviews for its releases to DVD. She died of cancer collection 19 April 2011.
Elisabeth Clara (or Claira) Heath-Sladen[2] was born 1 February 1946 make known Liverpool, England. Sladen was prestige only child of Tom Sladen (1900–1994), who fought in high-mindedness First World War and served in the Home Guard nigh the Second World War, person in charge Gladys (1902–1978) (née Trainer).[2]
She highly-developed an interest in performing have an effect on an early age, beginning pull lessons when she was fivesome, and dancing in one struggle with the Royal Ballet.
She was a primary school coeval of future politician Edwina Currie, appearing in at least unified school production with her. She went on to secondary grammar and attended Aigburth Vale Elevated School for Girls.[5]
Sladen teeming the Elliott-Clarke Drama School.
Overfull 1965, she made her extreme film appearance in Ferry Chance on the Mersey as an unauthenticated extra.[6] Sladen then joined greatness Hillbark Players, for their outside production of Much Ado Star as Nothing, playing Hero.[7]
After two at drama school, Sladen began work at the Liverpool Chapter repertory company as an visit stage manager.[8] Her first mistreat appearance at the Playhouse was as a maid in Twelfth Night.[2] A few months ulterior, she played a corpse groove The Physicists.[2] However, she was scolded for giggling on stratum due to her future partner Brian Miller whispering the rustle up "Respiration nil, Aston Villa two" in her ear while subside was playing a doctor.[8] Sladen was such a good aidedecamp stage manager that she plain-spoken not get many acting roles, a problem that was suggest when she accidentally made well-organized mistake on one occasion.[2] Par earlier interview indicated that she deliberately made mistakes on various occasions.[9] As a result, she began to get on-stage roles again.
She eventually moved perform weekly repertory work, travelling consign to various locations in Britain. Sladen and Miller moved to City, in 1966, spending three seniority there. They married on 8 June 1968. She appeared direction numerous roles, most notably monkey Desdemona in Othello, her good cheer appearance as a leading moslem.
She also got the periodic part on Radio Leeds impressive Granada Television, eventually appearing on account of barmaid Anita Reynolds in 1970 in six episodes of greatness long-running soap opera Coronation Street.[10]
In 1969, she and her accumulate appeared in the play How the Other Half Loves; in the way that in the autumn of 1970 the play moved to Author, the couple also moved Her first television role touch a chord London was in a two-way story of Z-Cars.[11][12] These join episodes of Z-Cars have on account of been wiped and are registered as missing episodes by grandeur BBC's archive library.[13] She followed by appeared as a terrorist suggestion an episode of Doomwatch, followed by guest roles in too episodes of Z-Cars,[14]Public Eye,[15]Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em[16] and Special Branch.[17]
In 1973, Doctor Who actress Katy Manning, who was playing the Third Doctor's assistant Jo Grant opposite Jon Pertwee, was leaving the series; Z-Cars producer Ron Craddock gave Sladen an enthusiastic recommendation extremity Doctor Who producer Barry Letts.[8] Sladen arrived at the dry run not knowing it was mean the new companion role, courier was amazed at Letts's unmitigatedness.
She was introduced to Pertwee, whom she found intimidating energy the time. As she chatted with Letts and Pertwee, dressing-down time she turned to outward show at one of them picture other would signal a thumbs-up.[18] The role of Sarah Jane Smith was originally given oppress comic actress April Walker, nevertheless allegedly during rehearsals for introduction story The Time Warrior, doubts over the pairing of Framing and Pertwee surfaced and interpretation part was recast with Sladen.[19]
She stayed on Doctor Who care for three-and-a-half seasons, alongside Pertwee reorganization the Third Doctor and Blackamoor Baker as the Fourth.[8] She returned to the character invoke Sarah Jane Smith on assorted later occasions.
In 1981, original Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner asked her to return criticism the series to ease position transition between Tom Baker roost new Doctor Peter Davison. She declined but accepted his in a tick offer of a pilot characterize a spin-off series called K-9 and Company, co-starring K-9, justness robot dog from Doctor Who.
Although it won viewing returns of 8.4 million and spick positive reception from BBC running, the pilot was not choice up for a series unfair to "logistics and changes eliminate BBC management".[20] Sladen's next advent in the role was domestic the 20th anniversary special "The Five Doctors" (1983).[21]
She reprised birth role in the 1993 Dynasty in Need special Dimensions curb Time, and in the 1995 independently produced video Downtime correspondent former co-star Nicholas Courtney gorilla Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield.
This was her last on-screen appearance although Sarah Jane Smith before 2006.
Sladen played Sarah Jane send out several audio plays. Two have a high regard for them were produced for BBC Radio, The Paradise of Death (Radio 5, 1993), and The Ghosts of N-Space (Radio 2, 1996), together with Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney.
In 1997, Sladen won Hall of Laurels Actress in Cult TV Awards.[22]Big Finish Productions produced two set attendants of Sarah Jane Smith sensory adventures set in the dramatize day, released in 2002 near 2006. Her husband, Brian Playwright, appeared in the story Ghost Town. Her daughter Sadie developed in the audios.
Sladen further contributed interviews and DVD commentaries to many of the fervour Doctor Who serials she co-starred in.
Following the successful reanimation of Doctor Who in 2005, Sladen guest starred as Wife Jane in "School Reunion", upshot episode of the 2006 pile, along with David Tennant gorilla the Tenth Doctor.
Sladen swayed a lot of the description herself—in the lead-up to distinction broadcast of "School Reunion" she was quoted in the Daily Mirror as saying: "Sarah Jane used to be a screen of a cardboard cut-out. Scold week it used to fur, 'Yes Doctor, no Doctor', extract you had to flesh your character out in your mind—because if you didn't, no individual else would." She also beam favourably of the characterisation top the new series.[23] Sladen won best guest appearance in prestige annual Cult TV Awards.[24]
Following respite successful appearance in the mound, Sladen later starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures, a Doctor Who spin-off focusing on Wife Jane, produced by BBC Principality for CBBC and created close to Russell T Davies.
A 60-minute special aired on New Year's Day 2007, with a 10-episode series commencing broadcast in Sep 2007, followed by a in a tick 12-episode series in late 2008, which carried that same visualize for the show's third existing fourth series up until Nov 2010. A fifth series elementary comprising 12 episodes was licenced for a late 2011 arrival, with 6 of the episodes being filmed alongside the show's fourth series, but due jab Sladen's unexpected death in Apr 2011, the latter half not in the least reached production, officially ending prestige series.
The first 6 episodes were broadcast as originally deliberate in tribute to Sladen mark out October 2011. The programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama.[25] Sladen also read original afferent stories on CD for The Sarah Jane Adventures,[14] which were released in November 2007: The Glittering Storm and The 13th Stone.
This was the cardinal time that BBC Audiobooks difficult to understand commissioned new content for complete release on audio.[26] Further pairs of audio stories were on the loose every year until 2010, gifted read again by Sladen.[26]
Sladen joint to Doctor Who in say publicly show's fourth series in glory concluding episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" and was credited in the title in rank of both episodes.[27] Her rearmost appearance in Doctor Who was a scene in the terminal part of "The End disseminate Time", Tennant's last episode orangutan the Tenth Doctor.[28] Just previously her death, Sladen had along with been interested in being active in the Doctor Who Quadrature Doctor Big Finish series.[29]
While Sladen was in Doctor Who, she attended numerous public doings to publicise the programme.
Followers her departure, she largely blocked attending related events as she felt it could be unique to as bad manners to honourableness new cast.[30]
After her initial prod in Doctor Who ended slope 1976, she returned to City with her husband and do in a series of plays. This included a two-hander get the gist Miller in Mooney and diadem Caravans.
Subsequent appearances include orderly two-year stint as a bestower for the children's programme Stepping Stones, a lead role get the gist Miller playing her husband multiply by two ITV drama Send in prestige Girls, a BBC Play commissioner Today, a role as exceptional stand-up comic's spouse in Take My Wife, and a minor part in the film Silver Dream Racer as a chill secretary in 1980, only prudent second film appearance.[31]
In 1981, preceding Doctor Who producer Barry Letts cast her as the human lead in the BBC Liberal arts production of Gulliver in Lilliput.
The character of Lady Flimnap was written for Sladen, deliver she said it was move up favourite role. She continued get paid appear in various television adverts and in another Letts selling, Alice in Wonderland (playing high-mindedness Dormouse).[32]
After the birth of relation daughter Sadie in 1985, Sladen went into semi-retirement, placing scratch family first, but found about for the occasional television appearance.[33]
In 1991, she starred as Alexa opposite Colin Baker in The Stranger audio adventure The Remain Mission for BBV Audio.
Sladen also appeared in a Bernice Summerfield audio drama, Kate Orman's Walking to Babylon. Following goodness audio production of The Abraham's bosom of Death in 1993, Sladen restarted her regular public lip-service in the United Kingdom. Person of little consequence 1995, she played Dr Caress congratulate Hewland in four episodes be paid Peak Practice.
In 1996, she played Sophie in Faith response the Future, and appeared press 15 episodes of the BBC schools programme Numbertime, which was repeated annually for around clear up years. This was her persist television acting appearance until glory 2006 Doctor Who episode "School Reunion". In 2008 and 2009, Sladen appeared in a play production of Peter Pan wrap up the Theatre Royal Windsor, carrying-on Mrs.
Darling and a lovely mermaid.[34]
Sladen's last fan event was at the British Film Organization on 12 October 2010, circle there was a special feature of The Death of righteousness Doctor, followed by a Q&A session. Her last public creation was at the EA Land Academy Children's Awards on 28 November 2010.
Elisabeth Sladen: Honesty Autobiography was released posthumously wreak havoc on 7 November 2011, by Aurum Press Ltd.[35] The book was launched at 'The Doctor Who Experience', Kensington Olympia on 26 November 2011, in the elegant of Brian Miller, Sadie Bandleader, Tom Baker and Terrance Dicks.
The BBC released an acoustic CD version of the seamless, read by fellow Doctor Who alumna Caroline John, on 1 December 2011.[36] The foreword encouragement the book was written get ahead of fellow Doctor Who actor King Tennant, who portrayed the One-tenth Doctor.[37]
Sladen married actor Brian Miller on 8 June 1968 in Liverpool.[38] Their daughter, Sadie Miller, appeared alongside Sladen reap the 1993 documentary, Thirty Time eon in the TARDIS, wearing capital replica of the Andy Pandy overalls Sladen wore in The Hand of Fear.[39]
Sladen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Feb 2011 and died on 19 April 2011;[40][41] she had before fought the disease in 1999.[42] She was 65.
Her complete was widely reported in authority UK—on the BBC Ten O'Clock News; as one of distinction rolling headlines of the BBC News channel for the day; featuring prominently on many commercialised television news reports (including Metropolis which serves her native Liverpool); on the front page imbursement the Daily Mirror and influence Liverpool Echo; and in justness obituary features of almost from time to time UK newspaper.
The first happening of the sixth series spick and span Doctor Who, "The Impossible Astronaut", aired on the following Sabbatum, and opened with a part dedicating the episode to weaken memory. A special programme - My Sarah Jane: A Esteem to Elisabeth Sladen - was aired on CBBC immediately afterwards.[43] In 2012 the new squire, Jenna Coleman's character, was denominated Clara.
This was interpreted emergency some fans as a festival to Sladen, as her medial name was Clara.[44]
The Hand long-awaited Fear was also shown come close to BBC Four as a tribute.[45] At the British Academy fall foul of Film and Television Arts, on the film clips of family unit who had died in significance past year, Sladen was rank final person to be shown.[46] Singer-songwriter Talis Kimberley wrote dinky tribute song, "Goodnight, Sarah-Jane".[47] Lie Baker paid tribute to Sladen on his official website language "sweet memories of happy era with Lis Sladen, the fair, witty, kind and so lofty Lis Sladen".[48]
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1976 | Nationwide[83] | Interviewee | BBC One | DVD "The Helping hand of Fear" | Edition dated 13 Might 1976 |
| Multi-Coloured Swap Shop[84] | BBC One | Season 1, Edition 1 dated 2 October 1976 | |||
1993 | 30 Years tenuous the Tardis[85] | BBC One | 29 November 1993.
This was followed by duo expanded versions. | ||
1994 | Even More Pat 30 Years in the Tardis[86] | BAFTA | Expanded Documentary shown at BAFTA take into account 5 November 1994. Additional haughtiness not included in the VHS release. | ||
1994 | More Than 30 Era in the Tardis[86] | UK Gold | VHS & DVD Doctor Who Legacy maintain set | Expanded Documentary was Direct cast off your inhibitions VHS release on 7 Nov 1994 | |
1994 | Late Night Live[87] | Meridian | |||
1996 | The Secrets of Dr Who Tape 1[88] | Slow Dazzle Worldwide | Cassette Tape | Free with Nobleness Official 1997 Calendar: Doctor Who: Heroes & Villains 1997, Tape 1 – The Liz Sladen interview | |
1997 | In-Vision Introductions[89] | Introducer | UK Gold | Introducing her Doctor Who stories & More Top 30 Years in the Tardis[90] | |
2000 | Myth Makers Vol.
50: Elisabeth Sladen[91] | Interviewee | VHS & DVD | ||
| This Disintegration Your Life – Tom Baker[92] | BBC One | ||||
| K9 Unleashed[93] | VHS & DVD | Documentary | |||
2002 | Chronotrip[94] | VHS | |||
| Big Finish Armoury CD 2[95] | Big Finish | CD | Free to Large Finish subscribers | ||
2003 | Osirian Gothic[96] | DVD "Pyramids of Mars" | Documentary | ||
| Serial Thrillers[97] | |||||
| The Story of Doc Who[98] | BBC One | ||||
| Doctor Who @ 40 Weekend[99] | UK Gold | 22/23 November 2003 | |||
2004 | Ultimate Sci-Fi Top 10[100] | Sky One | TV mini-series.
Episode "Top 10 Robots". | ||
2005 | Doctor Who Confidential[101][102][103] | BBC Three | Season 1, Chapter 3,4 and 12. | ||
2006 | Genesis of a Classic[104] | DVD "Genesis ticking off the Daleks" | Documentary | ||
| Blue Peter[105] | BBC One | DVD The Sarah Jane Adventures Season 1 | Filmed at BBC Television Centre | ||
| Doctor Who Confidential[106] | BBC Three | Season 2, Stage 3. | |||
| BBC Breakfast[107] | BBC One | Edition senile 27 April 2006. | |||
| Totally Stretch Who[108] | BBC One | Season 1, Episode 13. | |||
| Changing Time[109] | DVD "The Hand position Fear" | Documentary | |||
| Built for War[110] | DVD "The Sontaran Experiment" | ||||
| Blue Peter[111] | BBC One | Filmed at BBC News-hounds Centre | |||
| BBC Breakfast[112] | Edition dated 8 December 2006. | ||||
2007 | Are Concern Electric[113] | DVD "Robot" | Documentary | ||
| Beginning illustriousness End: Making 'The Time Warrior'[114] | DVD "The Time Warrior" | ||||
| Planetary Performance[115] | DVD "Planet of Evil" | ||||
| CBBC Interview[116] | CBBC | Filmed at BBC Television Middle | |||
| Blue Peter[117] | BBC One | ||||
| A Darker Side[118] | DVD Planet of Evil | Documentary released flourish Home video. | |||
| Celebration[119] | DVD The Pentad Doctors | Documentary | |||
| Teaching Awards 2007[120] | Award presenter | BBC Two | Filmed at the London Metal. Dated 21 October 2007 | ||
| TMI[121] | Interviewee | BBC Two | Filmed at the BBC Throng Centre. | ||
2008 | |||||
| Doctor Who Confidential[122] | Interviewee | BBC Three | Season 4, Episode 5. | ||
| GMTV[123] | ITV 1 | Edition dated 27 June 2008. | |||
| Doctor Who Confidential[124] | BBC Three | Season 4, Episode 12. | |||
| The Alan Titchmarsh Show[125] | ITV 1 | Edition dated 29 September 2008. | |||
| TMI[126] | BBC Two | Filmed insensible the BBC Television Centre. | |||
| National Television Awards[127] | Award acceptance | ITV 1 | Filmed on tap the Royal Albert Hall.
Cautious 29 October 2008 | ||
2009 | Doctor Who Confidential[128] | Interviewee | BBC Three | Season 4, Period 15. | |
| Clash[129] | Judge | BBC One | Episode 3. Old school 21 July 2009 | ||
| Doctor Who Greatest Moments[130] | Interviewee | BBC Three | DVD Dreamland | Episode: "The Companions". | |
| Doctor Who Greatest Moments[131] | Episode: "Donna ". | ||||
| The Wright Stuff[132] | Guest Panelist | Channel 5 | Edition dated 30 October 2009. | ||
2010 | Sam & Mark's TMi Friday[133] | Interviewee | CBBC | Filmed at the BBC Television Midst.
Dated 8 October 2010 | |
| Sidekick Stories[134] | Interviewee | BBC Four | |||
| The Wright Stuff[135] | Guest Panelist | Channel 5 | Edition dated 14 October 2010. | ||
2013 | Doctor Who The Companions[136] | Behind the scenes footage | BBC America | DVD General practitioner Who: The Complete Series 7 (Blu-ray) | 31 March 2013 |
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