RIP Sil

[matthunter]

We don't seem to have picked up on this, but Nabil Shaban passed on 18th October. One of Classic Who's more memorable villains.

Doctor Who villain actor Nabil Shaban dies, aged 72

The actor played Sil in the 1985 storyline Vengeance on Varos and also set up the Graeae Theatre Company – Britain's leading theatre company devoted to deaf and disabled artists and theatre makers.

www.radiotimes.com

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Yeah he was a real good Who villian.

RIP.

 

[Steve Roby]

He also starred in the semi-official spinoff Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, written by Sil's creator, Philip Martin.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/rtp533

 

[Captaindemotion]

Very memorable in one of the few Sixth Doctor serials I’ve watched in it’s entirely but also a great and passionate campaigner for disabled people. Fandom (as well as former actors, etc) seems to be in agreement that he was a gentleman in real life too.