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Colin Jeavons is a Welsh character actor, born 20 October 1929 in Newport.

He is probably best known for his part as Max Quordlepleen in the BBC television serial of Douglas Adams' space opera comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy series based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's novel Billy Liar
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His most critically acclaimed role was as the unworldly Donald Duck, in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (1979). He also has featured prominently in the 1990 dramatisation for television of House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, and in the two subsequent dramatisations of the following novels.

Jeavons' general acting credits are numerous and varied: he is known as a regular character actor on television classical adapatations; he hosted Play School for a time; and was both Moriarty in The Baker Street Boys (1982), and Inspector Lestrade in the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Jeremy Brett as Holmes). He also appeared in Doctor Who in the 1966 story The Underwater Menace and the 1981 spin-off K-9 and Company; and twice in cult TV series The Avengers
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