Looking For More Info

[thascalos]

I'm in the process of trying to find out about Roger Delgado's character Conrad in Quatermass II so if anybody has any info and/or photos of him then I would be most grateful to receive them

Thanks for your help

[The Bug]

Well I guess you've been here already by your judicious use of the piccie of Roger.

www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8504/tvqiibac.htm

The episode guide on this site says: "Quatermass goes with Hugh Conrad to talk to the workforce at the Plant."


There's a tiny bit here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II

about how he plays a reporter who helps Quatermass before becoming a victim of 'The Mark' in episode four.


This site, however,

www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=59045

defines that reporter as a single episode role that meets a nasty end.


As for pictures... not a thing I'm afraid. I don't think he was in it very much before meeting the sticky end.

The Complete BBC Quatermass Collection is out on DVD with all remaining episodes (including the Roger episode, called 'The Coming') included. I haven't got it myself although it is on my list. Currently £16.99 from HMV online.

[thascalos]

Thanks for that Bug

Any and all info is gratefully received

I must put the DVD on my buying list ;D

[The Bug]

I tries. ;D


There's quite a good paragraph down the page on the first link. It goes:

In some way it is Paula's task to act as stooge for Quatermass and Pugh, having all the important bits of plot meticulously explained to her and leaving the audience at home quite clear about plot developments. But Paula is not the only minor character to be dragged by Quatermass into the thick of things in the service of mankind. In fact Professor Bernard has the amazing ability to convince an unnerving number of young men to lay down their lives in order to repel the alien invader. Indeed quite a distin guished cast of actors including Roger Delgado and Rupert Davies, both of whom later went on to greater things, suffered this fate. But before they meet their doom both Davies and and Delgado give quite convincing performances: Davies as the hardnosed northern polititian and Delgado as an equally tough journalist, although both initially miss the point of Quatermass' revelations by miles, concentrating rather on their own concerns of exposing political espionage and getting a good story respectively. On the whole the standard of acting is quite good, even Wilfred Brambell showed a youthful streak of versitility. In fact, hamming it up was the reserve of the 'zombies', potentially horrific figures, all of whom, when given lines, were quite painful.


So he was 'quite convincing' then as a tough journalist.

[thascalos]

Yay it seems that way ;D

I am getting some ideas together to write a scifi story with Conrad as the central character, I rather like the idea of writing about another Delgado related character other than the Master

;D

[The Bug]

Ah, branching out are we? Quite right too!


I'm sure there's a few Delgado characters that could hold a story by themselves.

[thascalos]

Yay

I am also toying with the idea of writing a story involving Roger's character Kreer from The Avengers and also his character Tapiro from Randell & Hopkirk I think as you say they would work really well in a story in their own right ;D