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Was one of the voices of Xoanon in ‘Face of Evil’ Anthony Frieze was born on November 19th 1965 in Australia. His only acting credit was in Doctor Who. He was a pupil at the school where director Pennant Roberts's wife taught at the time. Philip Hinchcliffe arranged for a recording of his voice to be made shouting, "Who am I?", for the climax to episode three. After the initial recording (in a sound studio), Frieze made a second visit to the set and re-recorded the line. He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford and was a contemporary of British Prime Minister David Cameron and cabinet minister Michael Gove. He was president of the Oxford Union for Michaelmas term in 1987. In January 1988 a campus newspaper claimed Gove and Frieze were among a group of five student politicians who ended up in bed together after a ball. However, in an ‘expose’ of this incident in a 2008 Daily Mail story, participant Flora McClean claimed no such thing occurred. He is now a Conservative Party activist, having stood for the Darlington constituency in the 2005 General Election, placing him second to Labour candidate, Alan Milburn, with 26% of the vote. In 2010 Anthony was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of theft in an incident near the Saatchi Gallery in London, but in actual fact he had been caught up in apprehending the real thief who had made off with a woman's laptop and phone. Police arrested both men at the scene, and Anthony spent the night in a police cell until it was ascertained that it was actually Teejay Moore who was guilty of the crime. He is currently a partner in the new London-based communications agency, Pagefield, where he leads the financial service practice. Immediately before Pagefield, he joined the Conservative Party’s implementation unit advising the Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Played Professor Zaroff in 'The Underwater Menace'. Joseph Fürst was born on February 13th 1916 in Vienna, Austria. He was an international film and television actor, who was lean and distinguished-looking, latterly white-haired and with distinctive dark eyebrows. He was known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia. Though he initially studied law in Vienna, Fürst became interested in acting and was given his first opportunities on stage and TV in Canada. His first television appearance was in seven episodes of the Canadian TV series Encounter from 1953 to 1955. In 1959 he moved to England in search of better job prospects; he immediately got a role in an episode, titled 'Echo from Afar', of the TV series BBC

Sunday-Night Theatre . He eventually found his

niche in British films and on television and is best remembered on screen for playing suave, villainous scientists, invariably of Eastern European, Germanic or Italian ethnicity. Arguably, as to the most prominent among those, look no further than his laser refraction specialist, Professor Dr. Metz, in the James Bond classic Diamonds Are Forever. Fürst occasionally returned to his native Austria for theatrical appearances in Vienna and Salzburg. He regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in Counter-Attack , The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch and The Persuaders! . He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play 'A Magnum for Schneider', which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. He later appeared in an episode of Callan . His notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking , Exodus, The Brides of Fu Manchu , Inn of the Damned and Diamonds Are Forever. He immigrated to Australia in 1973 and acted in many guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi who romanced Norma Whittaker. He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979 and appeared in Kingswood Country. He starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s and appeared in The Dunera Boys. His last TV appearance was in 1986 in the TV mini-series series Tusitala , about Robert Louis Stevenson’s time in Samoa. He played Von Pilsach, president of the municipal council of Apia. He ultimately retired to Bateau Bay, New South Wales where he died on November 29 2005. Joseph was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for Loose Cannon , shortly before his death, about his career. It appeared as an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing episodes of the Doctor Who story 'The Underwater Menace'.


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