Cast & creator
Ian Marter
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Crown Court
Ian Marter was an actor and novelist. He was best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. Marter continued his association with Doctor Who long after leaving the show, adapting several stories for the Target novelisation range, and penning an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War. In addition to these books, Marter wrote adaptations of several 1980s American films such as Splash and Down and Out in Beverly Hills for Target and its imprint, Star Books, as well as the Gummi Bears books. With the exception of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, these books were published under the pen name Ian Don - Don being his middle name. Marter died in 1986, on his 42nd birthday, from a heart attack associated with diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
20
film credits
15
television credits
35
1963–2025 · acting roles
7.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (35)
Showing 35 of 35 credits
Doctor Who
Harry Sullivan
1963Doctor Who
John Andrews
1963
Crown Court
Quentin Ingrams
1972Crown Court
Constable Forbush
1972
Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Fereday
1984
Bergerac
Cowman
1981
Shine on Harvey Moon
Policeman
1982
Softly, Softly
1966
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Fereday
1986
Myth Makers
Himself
2015
Holly
Police Driver
1972
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
3rd Policeman
1971
The Medusa Touch
Detective
1978
King of the Ghetto
Station Sergeant
1986Fell Tiger
Martin Cunningham
1985
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Harry Sullivan (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
Doctor Who's Who's Who
Harry Sullivan
1985
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Harry Sullivan
1975
Doctor Who: Robot
Harry Sullivan
1975
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Harry Sullivan
1975
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Harry Sullivan
1975
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Harry Sullivan (archive footage)
1981
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Harry Sullivan
1975
North and South
Henry Lennox
1975
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
John Andrews
1973
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2017
Doctor Faustus
Pride/Emperor
1967
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Harry Sullivan
1975
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Harry Sullivan
1975
Who's Who
1986
Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
Self (archive footage)
2025The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
Lincoln's Inn (The Big Fancy)
1978
The Emergency Channel
Literary Editor
1973
Myth Runner
Himself (archive footage)
1987The Specialist
Journalist
1980