Frazer Hines

Frazer Hines (born 22 September 1944) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor.[1] He later played Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who, appearing in 117 episodes of the series, more than any other companion.[2] He was a regular in the series alongside Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor between 1966 and 1969, and made guest appearances in the 1980s stories The Five Doctors and The Two Doctors. He also had a long-running role as Joe Sugden in Emmerdale between 1972 and 1994.

Frazer Hines
Frazer Hines in 2014
Born	(1944-09-22) 22 September 1944 Horsforth, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1955–2015, 2017-present
Television	Doctor Who Emmerdale
Spouse(s)	Gemma Craven ​ ( m. 1981; div. 1984) Liz Hobbs ​ ( m. 1994; div. 2003)
Website	www.frazerhines.co.uk

Early life and career

Hines was born in Horsforth, a north-west suburb of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother was Scottish and came from Port Glasgow.[3] He attended Corona Theatre School in London while a young boy. By the age of 10, he had appeared in numerous feature films as minor characters. In 1957, he performed the role of a boy called Napoleon in a six-part television adaptation of John Buchan's 1922 novel Huntingtower. From 1957 and throughout the 1960s, he performed a steady stream of roles in various television series, such as Jan in The Silver Sword (1957–58), Tim Birch in Emergency – Ward 10 (1963–64), and Roger Wain in Coronation Street (1965). He appeared in a 1964 serial, Smuggler's Bay, with Patrick Troughton.[4] With a well-established career in television, Hines appeared in feature films less frequently. However, he did appear in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, providing his voice for the dub of Mr Osato's Secretary who also does the Mission Control tannoy in the famous volcano base in the film.

Doctor Who

Hines' Doctor Who debut came in 1966, when he was cast to play the part of Jamie McCrimmon, the companion of the Second Doctor (played by Patrick Troughton). Originally intended as a one-off guest character, Jamie joined the regular cast and appeared in the series from 1966 to 1969. Hines reprised the role in a cameo in the 20th anniversary serial The Five Doctors (1983) and as a guest star in The Two Doctors (1985). Hines would appear in 117 episodes of Doctor Who in all[5]—more than any other "companion" actor in the history of the series. The only actors appearing in more episodes are those who played the first four Doctors. Many of the episodes featuring Jamie no longer exist in the BBC's collection.[6]

In 1968, during his third year on the show, Hines released with Major Minor Records the novelty record "Who's Dr. Who?" Esteemed songwriters Barry Mason and Les Reed composed the music and lyrics, but the record was a commercial failure. Hines would later call it the only flop Mason and Reed ever wrote.[7]

Frazer Hines and his fellow lead actors Patrick Troughton and Wendy Padbury (who played the Doctor's other companion Zoe Heriot) decided collectively that the workload of Doctor Who was exhausting them. Frazer was the first of the three to announce his intention to leave. Troughton asked him to stay a few more months, to the end of the sixth series, as this was when Troughton planned to relinquish his role. The three actors remained with the show until the conclusion of the final Season 6 serial The War Games (1969). In a documentary about Patrick Troughton, Hines reported that they all left with smiles on their faces, feeling that their job was done and that it was well done. Frazer attested that he remained in contact with Troughton afterward.

Author Diana Gabaldon credits watching Frazer Hines in the Doctor Who serial The War Games (and finding him attractive in a kilt) as the inspiration for her first novel, Outlander, a time travel story let in 18th century Scotland. Consequently, she named the novel's male protagonist Jamie.[8] She says that the character's surname, Fraser, is a coincidence, as the PBS station on which she watched Doctor Who habitually cut off the episode's credits. She did not learn Hines' name until several years after Outlander was published.[8]

Deborah Watling and Frazer Hines at a Doctor Who 50th Anniversary event

Up until 2007, Hines was the only surviving Second Doctor companion actor not to have acted in a Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play. (The others have played characters other than their television roles.) In November 2007, he starred as Jamie in Helicon Prime, the second instalment in Season 2 of Big Finish's Companion Chronicles. Since then he has appeared in many more Companion Chronicles, where his uncanny ability to mimic Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor has been welcomed by fans of the show.[9] Hines has also recorded linking narration for many Second Doctor serials which no longer exist in video form; the soundtracks, along with Hines' narration, have been released on CD by BBC Audio. He also appeared in an audio trilogy with Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor as an older Jamie. In 2013, Hines portrayed both Jamie and the Second Doctor in the Big Finish audio play The Light at the End, produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Emmerdale

After his tenure as Jamie in Doctor Who, Hines resumed the life of a jobbing actor until 1972, when he was cast in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm as Joe Sugden, a role he played until 1994. In between making episodes of Emmerdale, as it was renamed in 1989, he has continued a career in the theatre and made occasional appearances in other TV shows. He stated in a 2019 interview “I left Emmerdale because I got sick of going to work when it was dark and coming home when it was dark. I’d just got married and owned a stud farm, and so I said I would leave. He stated he was asked back to the show the following year but refused and was later killed off."

Other work

Hines appeared in Peter Kay's Comic Relief video of 2007, as one of the many guests dancing to Kay's Brian Potter and Matt Lucas' Andy Pipkin to the song I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers.

Hines was cast in a 2015 episode of the television adaptation of Outlander, which he had helped to inspire.[10] In the May 2015 episode "Wentworth Prison", Hines portrayed Sir Fletcher Gordon, an English prison warden.[10][11]

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel.[12]

He appeared as Daddy Warbucks in the stage musical Annie in 2014.[13]

Personal life

Hines at one time dated Liza Goddard and Pamela Franklin. He has been twice married, first to Irish actress Gemma Craven[14] from 1981 to 1984, and second to waterskiing champion Liz Hobbs[5] (with whom he lived in Coddington, Nottinghamshire) from 1994 to 2003.

Boxtree, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, published Hines' autobiography in 1996. This work, titled Films, Farms and Fillies, first appeared in a paperback edition. 13 years later, in December 2009, Telos Publishing released a revised hardcover edition, titled Hines Sight.

In July 2010, Hines disclosed that he suffered from colorectal cancer for eleven years, explaining that he kept his illness a secret for fear of professional alienation. Since his recovery, Hines has openly promoted cancer awareness through Cancer Research and the Bobby Moore Cancer Foundation. His older brother Roy Hines (1942–1982) was also an actor and died of cancer aged 40.

Hines later toured Northern England in a solo performance covering his career.

Hines is a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	One Good Turn		Uncredited
1955	John and Julie	Minor role	Uncredited
1955	The Woman for Joe		Uncredited
1955	Windfall	Boy	Uncredited
1955	Stock Car	Boy	Uncredited
1955	On the Twelfth Day...	Choirboy	Uncredited
1956	The Long Arm	Urchin	Uncredited
1956	Peril for the Guy	Kim
1956	The Weapon	Jimmy	Uncredited
1956	X the Unknown	Ian Osborn	Credited as Fraser Hines
1957	The Smallest Show on Earth		Uncredited
1957	Miracle in Soho		Uncredited
1957	A King in New York	Chef	Credited as Fraser Hines
1958	The Salvage Gang	Kim
1959	A Woman's Temptation	Tommy	Uncredited
1959	Witness in the Dark	Newsboy
1960	The Young Jacobites	Angus
1960	Tunes of Glory		Uncredited
1964	Go Kart Go	Harry Haggetty
1967	You Only Live Twice	Spectre Number 4	Uncredited, voice
1971	The Last Valley	Corg
1971	Zeppelin	Radio Operator
2013	A Voice to Die For	Quentin Lucas	short film
2014	Two Days In The Smoke	Mr. Hemmings
2015	Impurity	Carlson
2018	Sundown	William	short film
2018	Blood Corral	Thomas
2020	Perfect Strangers	Frank
2022	G.O.D. Tech	Dr. James Sheppard

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	London Playhouse	Mickey Day	Episode: "Fighting Chance"
1957	Huntingtower	Napoleon	All 6 episodes
1957	Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!	Bellhop	Episode: "The Littlest Sergeant"
1957-1958	The Silver Sword	Jan	6 episodes
1958	Run to Earth	Mick Fairbairn	5 episodes
1958	Queen's Champion	Toby	All 8 episodes
1958	Mary Britten, M.D.	Geoff Bates	Episode: "The Doctor in the Dark"
1958	Cinderella	Buttons
1958	The Adventures of William Tell	Carl	Episode: "The Boy Slaves"
1959	BBC Sunday-Night Theatre	Donald	Episode: "Proud Passage"
1959	Great Expectations	Trabb's Boy	Episode: "#1.5"
1959	Heidi	Organ-grinder	Episode: "Away from Grandfather"
1959	The Case Before You	Peter Houghton	Episode: "#1.5"
1959	Three Golden Nobles	Tom	Episode: "The Painter's Apprentice"
1959	The Men from Room 13	Hooligan	Episode: "The Man Who Watched Birds: Part 1"
1960	The Long Way Home	Philippe Rondeur	Episode: "Cross Country Run"
1960	Rendezvous	Bully	Episode: "The Dodo"
1960	No Man's Island	Tim	2 episodes
1960	Armchair Theatre	Perce	Episode: "Mr Nobody"
1960	The Charlie Drake Show	Nicholas Nickleby	Episode: "A Christmas Carol"
1960	ITV Television Playhouse	Landlady's Son	Episode: "The Song of Louise in the Morning"
1960	Yorky	Phil Grundy	Episode: "A Change of Tune"
1960	ITV Play of the Week	Barney MacKean	Episode: "The Member of the Wedding"
1961	The Cheaters	Harry	Episode: "The Man with the Ticking Head"
1961	Dear Charles	Bruno
1961	ITV Television Playhouse	Leonard Scott	Episode: "Paris Round the Corner"
1961	Yorky	Jimmy	Episode: "The Student Teacher"
1961	Family Solicitor	David Lee	Episode: "In Custody"
1961	ITV Play of the Week	Ephraim	Episode: "Over the Bridge"
1961		Young Boy	Episode: "The Whisperers"
1962	Late Summer Affair	Youth
1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook	Robbie Grant	Episode: "The Quack"
1962	Probation Officer	Tom Harvey	Episode: "#4.19"
1962	Z Cars	1st boy	Episode: "The Five Whistles"
1962	Suspense	Fred Markham	Episode: "Needle Point"
1963		Billy Johnson	Episode: "The Honest Man"
1963	The Plane Makers	Bob Millett	2 episodes
1963	Smugglers' Cove	Tim	All 6 episodes
1963–1964	Emergency-Ward 10	Tim Birch	14 episodes
1963	ITV Play of the Week	Noisy Boy	Episode: "I Can't Bear Violence"
1964	Television Club	Tony Brent	Episode: "The Brent Family: A Youth Hostel Weekend"
1964	Compact	Ray	4 episodes
1964	Smuggler's Bay	John Trenchard	All 6 episodes
1964	The Old Wives' Tale	Cyril	2 episodes
1965	The Villains	Sonny	Episode: "Sonny"
1965	Coronation Street	Roger Wain	3 episodes
1965	The Flying Swan	Jonathan Steele	Episode: "The Age of Consent"
1965	Theatre 625	Peter	Episode: "The Siege of Manchester"
1965	ITV Play of the Week	Andy	Episode: "Giants on Saturday "
1966	This Man Craig	Keith Mitchell	Episode: "Sticks and Stones"
1966	King of the River	Bob Elliot	4 episodes
1966–1969, 1983, 1985	Doctor Who	Jamie McCrimmon	117 episodes including The Five Doctors
1966	ITV Play of the Week	John	Episode: "Stories of D.H. Lawrence #4: Samson and Delilah"
1967		Man on Motor bike	Episode: "Cry Baby Bunting"
1971	Rules, Rules, Rules	Alan	Episode: "Rules and the Generation Gap"
1971	Seasons of the Year	Jethro	Episode: "The Three Graces"
1972–1994	Emmerdale	Joe Sugden	Series regular; 1515 episodes
1984	Duty Free	Frazer Hines	Episode: "El Astro"
1996	Expert Witness	Michael Kyte	Episode: "The Answer's in the Soil"
1997-1998	Out of Sight	Mr. Spinks	3 episodes
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Duncan Ramsden	Episode: "Glory Days: Part 1"
2008	Panto the Series	Baron
2015	Outlander	Sir Fletcher Gordon	Episode: "Wentworth Prison"
2020	Doctors	Sonny Troughton	Episode: "Pandora's Box"

Music videos

Year	Artist	Title	Role
2015	Linzi Gold	"Killing Kiss"	Barman[16]

References

1. "The Fourth Dimension". BBC. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
2. Kistler, Alan (2013). Doctor Who: A History. Lyons Press. p. 75. ISBN 0762791888.
3. Smith, Mark (17 November 2013). "Let's do the Time Lord again". Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
4. "Sky 319 Virgin 149 Freeview 70". Horror Channel. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
5. "Emmerdale's Frazer Hines: My secret battle with cancer". Yorkshire Post. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
6. "Frazer Hines | Doctor Who Interview Archive". Drwhointerviews.wordpress.com. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
7. "5 Best & Worst Doctor Who Songs Of All Time". WhatCulture. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
8. Gabaldon, Diana. "FAQ: About the Books". DianaGabaldon.com. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
9. "Frazer Hines Interview". Youtube.com. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
10. Ross, Robyn (19 August 2014). "Exclusive: Doctor Who Alum to Guest-Star on Outlander". TV Guide. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
11. Leeds, Sarene (12 May 2015). "Watch Claire Receive Jamie's Personal Effects in Exclusive Clip From This Saturday's Outlander". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
12. "Frazer Hines". Bigredbook.info. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
13. "Annie Star excited for show". Stuff.co.nz.
14. "The Two Doctors **". Radio Times. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
15. "List of members of the GOWR". Gowr.net. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
16. Marcus (14 July 2015). "Frazer Hines Makes his Pop Video Debut". Doctor Who News Page. Retrieved 24 April 2017.

External links

• Frazer Hines on IMDb
• fan website
• frazerhines.co.uk
• Sundown (2018) Trailer