Best known for playing school teacher Ian Chesterton in the long-running BBC sci-fi series, he passed away on Monday, with his death confirmed by The Guardian a day later.
It also starred Carole Ann Ford, who played companion Susan, and Jacqueline Hill who was Ian's fellow teacher Barbara Wright. He was awarded a Guinness World Record for the longest gap between TV appearances when he reprised his role as Ian 57 years after he first finished playing the teacher, in Time Lord actress Jodie Whittaker's final episode as the Doctor, titled The Power of the Doctor.
He wrote: 'William Russell . What a sad loss, William played the Doctor's very first companion, Ian Chesterton, back in 1963. A schoolteacher, trapped on the Tardis by a wily old Doctor, unable to get home, whisked off to the Stone Age, Skaro, the Crusades, planet of the Zarbi..
'Wonderful! A fine, nimble, witty, heartfelt actor who absolutely sold the truth of those early years. Before that, he'd been Sir Lancelot on the BBC; it's often undersold what a star booking he was for Doctor Who. He reprised his role as Ian 57 years after he first finished playing the teacher, in Time Lord actress Jodie Whittaker's final episode as the Doctor, titled The Power of the Doctor
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