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Hubert Rees
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Hubert Rees
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-04-27,Abergavenny, Wales, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Hubert Rees (27 April 1928 – 20 October 2009) was a Welsh character actor, known for his supporting roles in British television shows throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Rees's early career in television series and shows in character and bit parts, often playing a police officer. In 1968 Rees made his first appearance in the popular long-running British television series Doctor Who. He played the part of Chief Engineer in all six parts of "Fury from the Deep". The next year he appeared in another episode of Doctor Who, playing the role of Captain Ransom in "The War Games". In 1971 he appeared in the film thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo. This was followed in 1972 when he was part of the Welsh ensemble cast in the adaptation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood; he played the part of Butcher Beynon. Rees continued his career throughout the 1970s appearing in popular television programmes including Softly, Softly: Taskforce, The Sweeney, The Sandbaggers and Van der Valk. He also made his final appearance for Doctor Who when he appeared in "The Seeds of Doom" alongside Tom Baker. He was to appear with Baker again in 1982 when he took the part of Inspector Lestrade in the television mini-series of Sherlock Holmes classic The Hound of the Baskervilles. In 1983 Rees was back in another Sherlock Holmes series, this time as Doctor Watson in The Baker Street Boys. The 1980s saw Rees taking character roles in more popular television shows including Bergerac, Howards' Way and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Rees also appeared in Welsh films The Angry Earth (1989) and Darklands (1996).

Filmography

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

8.5

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
1976-01-31

4.3

Darklands
1996-11-16

0

Dummy Run
1974-01-18

4.111

Blue Blood
1974-11-01

0

A Breed of Men
1971-06-08

0

Father's Day
1979-03-10

6.55

Sweeney 2
1978-03-30

6.8

Champions
1984-04-20

6.167

Agatha
1979-02-09

The First Great Train Robbery

6.676

The First Great Train Robbery
1978-12-14

Under Milk Wood

6.2

Under Milk Wood
1972-01-27

Defence of the Realm

6.375

Defence of the Realm
1986-05-09

6

Heartland
1989-02-21

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

8.5

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
1968-04-20

Doctor Who: The War Games

9.6

Doctor Who: The War Games
1969-06-21

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

6.7

Unman, Wittering and Zigo
1971-06-13

0

Ice Age
1978-05-17

The Doctors: The Patrick Troughton Years Behind The Scenes Vol 2

0

The Doctors: The Patrick Troughton Years Behind The Scenes Vol 2
2022-08-16

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

5.8

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024-12-23

7.7

The Sweeney
1975-01-02

7.9

Doctor Who
1963-11-23

5.8

Van der Valk
1972-09-13

Jeeves and Wooster

8.064

Jeeves and Wooster
1990-04-22

6.6

Bergerac
1981-10-18

7.8

Public Eye
1965-01-23

7.8

Public Eye
1965-01-23

0

Hawkmoor
1978-01-29

The New Statesman

7.5

The New Statesman
1987-09-13

5.625

Howards' Way
1985-09-01

Enemy at the Door

7.75

Enemy at the Door
1978-01-28