Matthew Waterhouse

Matthew Waterhouse (born December 19 1961 Hertford) is a British actor best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. After leaving the series, he began a stage career.

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Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1981 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest male actor to play a companion (Jackie Lane, who played Dodo Chaplet, holds the distinction of being the youngest female actor to play a companion).

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Waterhouse's name was used by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a character in their sketch show Little Britain. Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor or bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. Little Britain has also featured a character named after another Doctor Who companion actor, Michael Craze.

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December 19: December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining....

1961: 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar)....

Hertford: Hertford (pronounced "Hartford" or "Harford") is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is in the East Hertfordshire district of that county. It has a population today of about 24,000....

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