Derek Francis
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Francis as Squire Anthony Cobtree in Hammer's Captain Clegg aka Night Creatures
Derek Francis was a British comedy and character actor.
He was born 7 November 1923 in Brighton, England, and died of a heart attack in Wimbledon, London on 27 March 1984.
He was a regular in the Carry On film players, appeating in six of the films in the 1960s and 1970s. He also took roles in several BBC adaptations of Charles Dickens novels.
Other roles included parts in the most established television series of the period: Rising Damp, The Professionals, The Sweeney, The New Avengers, Danger Man, Jason King, Up Pompeii!, Wild, Wild Women, Coronation Street, and Z Cars. He also appeared as the Emperor Nero, a comic turn in an early Doctor Who story in 1965.
