Cast & creator
Alfred Lynch
Best known for Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play, The Wednesday Play
Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was a British actor on stage, film and television. Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a draughtsman's office before entering national service. Then, whilst working in a factory, he attended theatre acting evening classes, at which he met his life partner, James Culliford. In 1958 he joined the Royal Court Theatre and acted in a number of plays. After 1960 his career moved more into film and television, for example appearing with Sean Connery in the 1961 film On the Fiddle and the 1965 film The Hill. He also appeared in the 1968 adaptation of The Sea Gull, and the 1990 film The Krays. Some of his later television credits include reading children's stories on Jackanory, Going Straight and the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric as Commander Millington. After James Culliford's stroke in 1972, Lynch moved from London to Brighton until James's death in 2002. Lynch himself died from cancer in 2003.
Also known as: Alfred Cornelius Lynch
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film credits
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television credits
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1950–2023 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (54)
Showing 54 of 54 credits
Doctor Who
Commander Millington
1963
The Wednesday Play
Peter Young
1964The Wednesday Play
Eddie Marble
1964The Wednesday Play
Bisthorpe
1964
ITV Playhouse
Edgar Lunt
1967
Theatre 625
Gordon Comstock
1964Film '72
1971
Bergerac
Whittaker
1981
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Barney
1965
Pie in the Sky
Bill Pritchard
1994
Sunday Night Theatre
Alyoshka, a Cobbler
1950
Lovejoy
Gideon
1986
Churchill's People
King James I
1974Drama 61-67
Slinn
1961Drama 61-67
Arnold
1961
Manhunt
Squadron Leader Jimmy Briggs
1970
Tales of the Tardis
Commander Millington
2023Blackmail
Chris Clark
1965
Going Straight
Dave Pipers
1978
The Taming of the Shrew
Tranio
1967
Armchair Theatre
Jupp
1956Armchair Theatre
Eddy
1956Armchair Theatre
1956
55 Days at Peking
Gerald (uncredited)
1963
Until the End of the World
Old Man Alfred
1991
A Tale of Two Cities
Jerry Cruncher
1989
The Good Companions
Joby Jackson
1980
Look Back in Anger
2nd Commercial Traveller
1959
The Fortunes of Nigel
King James I
1974
The Hill
George Stevens
1965Murder at the Wedding
Ken French
1979
Hereward the Wake
Hereward
1965
The Krays
Charlie Kray Snr
1990
The Password Is Courage
Corporal Bill Pope
1962
Second Best
Edward
1994
Loophole
Harry
1981
On the Fiddle
Horace Pope
1961
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Commander Millington
1989
Joseph Andrews
Postilion (as Alfie Lynch)
1977
Two and Two Make Six
Thomas 'Tom' Ernest Bennett
1962
The Blockhouse
Larshen
1973Item
1974Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gordon Comstock
1965
The Secret Agent
The Professor
1992
The Sea Gull
Semyon Medvedenko
1968
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1968
Horror of Darkness
Peter
1965
The Oresteia
Aegisthus
1983
West 11
Joe Beckett
1963Already It's Tomorrow
Unnamed Man
1961Prisoner and Escort
Jupp
1964
On the Razzle
Weinberl
1983
Bewitched
Saul Rutledge
1983
House of Character
Bisthorpe
1968