
Maurice Colbourne
Acting
🎂 1939-09-24
Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor who specialised in playing villains and hard men until 1985, when he took the key role of Tom Howard in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way. Colbourne was born Roger Middleton but took his stage name after reading about the death of actor Maurice Colbourne who shared the same birthday as he did. Colbourne's biggest success in the 1970s was as the lead in the crime drama series Gangsters. In the 80s he starred in Johnny Jarvis and the acclaimed adaptation of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel, The Day of the Triffids. Staying with sci-fi, he had a recurring guest role in Doctor Who as the mercenary Lytton, playing opposite the fifth and sixth doctors (Peter Davison and Colin Baker) in adventures featuring the timelords deadliest foes; the Daleks and the Cybermen. But it was the leading role in Howards' Way that he will perhaps best be remembered for. He played Tom Howard until 1989, when he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack. The show ended a year later.
Cast credits(24)

Commander Lytton
1963

Lytton
1963

John Kline
1970

Tom Howard
1985

Nick Scholtz
1972

Jed Blacket
1978

1979

John Kline
1975

Tall Second
1977

Jon Swinton
1979

Villager
1970

Sampson
1981

Lytton
1985
1982

Axe Man 1
1980

John Kline
1976

Jack Coker
1981

Lytton
1984

SS Officer
1985

Luke Armstrong
1976

Jake
1983

Lt. Cmdr. Kobahl
1980

Zacharias
1956

man
1970