A very sad month for sci-fi movie and TV fans kicked off with the less-bulletined, but still sad loss of John Scott Martin -- the veteran British actor best known for operating a Dalek through four decades and countless episodes of Doctor Who.
Enjoying a career in theater, TV and film that spanned more than a half-century, Martin appeared in Monty Python films, Little Shop of Horrors and *Pink Floyd The Wall. *
Compact in stature and experienced in stagecraft, Martin was a natural choice to squeeze inside the Dalek's mechanical costume, operating the monster in the first *Doctor Who *episodes that created Dalekmania in the United Kingtom, circa 1964. He would star in 110 episodes of the show, either encased in Dalekanium or making an occasional on-screen appearance in the flesh.
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