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Barry Morse was a British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio, best known for his roles in the television series The Fugitive and the British sci-fi.

The British actor Barry Morse, who died early in February aged 89, was a highly prolific performer who is reputed to have played more than 3, roles on radio, television, stage and screen over the last 70 years. Between and he also worked extensively in repertory theatre in Croydon, Coventry, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, York, Sunderland and Newcastle.

Two years earlier, he had guest appearances on American television in U. Richard Kimble, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife. The final episode made television history, winning the highest viewing figure of any single television episode to date — 30 million. The irregular nature of his Fugitive appearances enabled Morse to guest star in other television series on both sides of the Atlantic, and he was seen in episodes of Seaway , The Saint and Vendetta.

More importantly for Morse, his Fugitive schedule also enabled him to maintain his prolific theatre career throughout the run of the series, appearing in Man And Superman, Saint Joan, Gaslight and his own one man show Merely Players, which he had originally performed in Boston, Massachusetts, in An examination of the lives of actors and others from Elizabethan times to the present day, Merely Players became a signature work for Morse which he revived in and subsequently performed throughout the United States, Canada and the UK many times over the next twenty years, often as a fundraiser for local theatres and charities.

In the early s, Morse was increasingly seen in British film and television productions. Based on a best-selling novel by Paul Gallico, The Zoo Gang was originally envisaged as a much longer series but difficulties in co-ordinating the schedules of the four leads resulted in only six episodes being made. An elderly civilian scientist with a mechanical heart, Bergman was one of the survivors of the breakaway disaster which hurled the Moon out of Earth orbit, taking the personnel of Moonbase Alpha with it.

According to Morse, he decided that he had had enough of what he perceived as a childish show and wished to return to more challenging roles in serious drama. Sharing the screen with Rock Hudson, Roddy McDowall and Nyree Dawn Porter, Morse gave a touching performance portraying a doctor who has retired to Mars and replaced his dead family with robot replicas.

Over the last 25 years Morse restricted his career almost exclusively to the stage and television. In the theatre he championed the work of George Bernard Shaw, portraying the Irish playwright himself in a variety of productions. He leaves a son, the actor Hayward Morse. His wife Sydney predeceased him in and his daughter, actress Melanie Morse MacQuarrie, predeceased him in