Trivia

The first person to be killed by a Dalek on Doctor Who (1963).

Judged by 'The Tailor & Cutter' magazine as being the Best Dressed British Actor in 1961 and the 5th Best Dressed Man in the world.

During the war, he was a newsreader and announcer on the BBC European Service.

He became an actor/manager by investing his film wages in the play Portrait of a Lady at the Embassy Theatre in London.

In the main he does his own stunts.

He also spoke French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Spent 4 years as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the tv series Robin Hood.

In "Whispering Smith Hits London" (1952), he has a fight with Richard Carlson who throws him over his head in a jujitsu move, Alan crashed into a table with a cut glass vase on it which broke and cut his forehead open from which blood poured out .The scene was kept intact in the film.

He preferred television to the stage as in the theatre one had to enlarge and over-emphasize, while he preferred to minimize which is more suitable for television. He also got bored doing the same thing night after night.

He was a student in applied industrial psychology,.

At 21, he joined an amateur theatre group in St. Pancras, London then a repertory company in Croydon, where he sang and danced.

Appeared in some 100 television plays.

His favourite part was Richard III.

He disliked personal appearances as he felt they took away the glamour and mystery of the profession.

Had a collection of 4,000 78 r.p.m. records and 1,000 LPs which were all classical.

He was in over 100 televison plays but will be best remembered as The Sheriff of Nottingham in the television series of Robin Hood.

As of April 1952, he'd made 1,000 broadcasts, the first being in 1935 in "The Pickwick Papers".

He was televisions Sherlock Holmes.

Made his stage debut in 1928.

Made his screen debut in 1946.

Has been in over 100 television plays.

He made his stage debut in 1928.