10 Doctor Who Background Actors Who Got Themselves Noticed
7. Graham Cole
Graham Cole played all manner of Doctor Who monsters in the early 1980s. He played a Marshman in Full Circle, the Melkur in The Keeper of Traken, and a Cyberman in The Five Doctors.
He has blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances out of costume too, like his turn as one of the Kinda alongside Glen Murphy – who would later play Sabalom Glitz's sidekick Dibber.
However, it was in another iconic British series that Cole would ultimately make a name for himself, when he was cast as PC Tony Stamp in The Bill.
The character was one of the longest-serving cast members in the beloved police soap, which ran for over 2,000 episodes between 1983 and 2010.
These impressive credits have allowed Cole to brush shoulders with royalty, and to establish himself as an iconic figure in his own right.
Not bad for a guy who started out beneath layers of prosthetics as Chief Marshman opposite Tom Baker!