They had three children, Robert, Laetitia and Vanessa, and later divorced. In 1953, Russell married Balbina Gutierrez.
#ALFRED ENOCH HARRY POTTER INTERVIEW TV#
With this appearance, he achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest gap between TV appearances. Russell made a cameo appearance as Ian in the 2022 special " The Power of the Doctor".
#ALFRED ENOCH HARRY POTTER INTERVIEW SERIES#
The same year, Russell portrayed both Ian and the First Doctor in the Big Finish audio play The Light at the End, produced to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary, making him, aged 88, the oldest ever person to portray the Doctor, a record he held until March 2023, when Tom Baker portrayed the Fourth Doctor in the Big Finish audio series The Fourth Doctor Adventures at the age of 89.
He himself had a cameo role, playing a BBC Commissionaire named Harry. Russell appeared as a character in the drama, portrayed by actor Jamie Glover. In 2013, the BBC produced An Adventure in Space and Time, a docudrama depicting the creation and early days of Doctor Who, as part of the programme's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Russell has also contributed to the Doctor Who DVD range, having participated in several audio commentaries and on-screen interviews since 2002. He recorded several in-character scenes to camera, which helped to bridge the gaps between the existing episodes. In 1999, Russell returned to the role of Ian for the VHS release of the story The Crusade, of which "The Knight of Jaffa" and "The Warlords", the second and fourth episodes, respectively, are lost. He has also recorded readings for some of the CD audio adaptations of Doctor Who story novelisations originally published by Target Books. He appeared in The Game, one of the continuing Doctor Who audio stories produced by Big Finish Productions. Since leaving Coronation Street in 1992, Russell has maintained his association with Doctor Who, having lent his voice as a narrator to several of the audiobook releases of the lost 1960s episodes. However, scheduling conflicts made him unavailable. He was intended to reprise the role of Ian in the 1983 story Mawdryn Undead alongside Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor for the twentieth season. He eventually departed, alongside Hill, in "The Planet of Decision", the final episode of The Chase, which served as the penultimate story of the second season. His first involvement in the series took the form of the untransmitted pilot episode, which was eventually reshot and broadcast as the first episode of An Unearthly Child, the programme's first serial. He was one of the four original cast members of Doctor Who, starring opposite William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman and later Maureen O'Brien as Vicki.
In 1963, Russell was cast in Doctor Who as science teacher Ian Chesterton, the Doctor's first male companion, appearing in most episodes of the first two seasons of the programme. He was involved in organising entertainment during his national service in the Royal Air Force and then, after university, went into repertory theatre. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and became interested in acting at an early age. William Russell Enoch was born on 19 November 1924 in Sunderland, County Durham, to Eva Compston (née Pile) and Alfred James Enoch.
In recent years, Russell has maintained his association with Doctor Who he returned to the show in 2022, making a cameo appearance as Ian in " The Power of the Doctor", 57 years after the character's last television appearance. On television, he appeared as Ted Sullivan in Coronation Street in 1992. Russell's film roles include parts in The Man Who Never Was (1956), The Great Escape (1963) and Superman (1978). In 1963, he became part of the original lead cast of BBC1's Doctor Who, playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton opposite William Hartnell from the show's first episode until 1965. He achieved prominence when he took the title role in the ITV television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957). William Russell Enoch (born 19 November 1924) is an English actor.
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