Still Getting Away With It: The Life And Times Of Nicholas Courtney

Nicholas Courtney has been in the acting profession since 1952, performing in every genre bar opera, though he has just got away with singing and dancing (after a fashion) in pantomimes and musicals.Yet Nick's background and antecedents might have taken his life in a very different direction. His father was a diplomat in various embassies during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after surviving the trenches in the first world war. Nick was born in Egypt and began his education there, moving on to England and Kenya.Nick's most famous role was as Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the long-running television show Doctor Who. As this book demonstrates, however, there has been far more to his life than that. As an actor, an activist in the actors' union Equity and a concerned citizen of the world, Nick Courtney has made his mark on the lives of many thousands — even millions — of people.In this book, for the first time, Nick tells all about his life, his career and his innermost feelings — including what he really thought about many of the roles he has taken and the people with whom he has worked in a career spanning over half a century. Nick Courtney is the only person to have acted with the first eight Doctors. This is his second book, but he hopes it will not be his last.