- Born
- Died
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Ian Marter left university in 1969 and joined the Bristol Old Vic as an acting stage manager. In 1970, producer Barry Letts considered him for the role of Captain Mike Yates in Terror of the Autons: Episode One (1971), but it ultimately went to Richard Franklin. However, Letts remembered him and two years later cast him as John Andrews in Carnival of Monsters: Episode One (1973).
When Jon Pertwee decided to leave the series during the following year, Letts considered casting an older actor in the part of the Doctor. This meant that any physical action sequences might have to be performed by a younger actor (in the role of a companion to the Doctor) and Marter was thus cast as Surgeon Lieutenant Harry Sullivan. When 40-year-old Tom Baker landed the role of the Doctor, Marter became surplus to requirements and was written out in Baker's second season by the new production team of Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes, who felt the Doctor only needed one companion.
Marter spent much of the rest of his life novelising Doctor Who (1963) stories for Target Books. He died suddenly and prematurely in 1986.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseRosemary Heyland(1968 - October 28, 1986) (his death, 2 children)
- He wrote many Doctor Who Target novelizations, and caused a controversy by using swear words in "The Enemy of the World".
- During his brief tenure on Doctor Who, he co-wrote the film script of the ultimately-doomed yet well known "Doctor Who meets Scratchman" or as it is also known, "Doctor Who and the Big Game".
- After leaving Doctor Who, he wrote novelizations for many of the serials. He was in the process of writing "The Rescue", when he suffered a hypoglycemic episode while at home alone, went into cardiac arrest and died.
- He wrote a few books under the name Ian Don (Don being his middle name).
- Ian and his wife Rosemary had two sons named Rupert and Toby.
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