The avengers ian hendry biography

by Pete Stampede, with David K. Smith, Alan Hayes and Ian Duerden

While watching the BBC news on that Christmas Eve night twenty years ago, the long-serving Moira Stuart announced that "Two well-known film and television actors died today - Peter Lawford and Ian Hendry." The news report which followed featured clips of Hendry working on stage, and from his early 70s BBC series, The Lotus Eaters.

The picture quality on the latter was pretty terrible, with fuzzy colour and generally looking more like the US TV system of 525 lines (if you've seen the existing copies of early 70s Doctor Who stories like "Inferno" or most of Up Pompeii, you'll know what I mean).

Hendry was personally fond of this series and his role as a sensitive, depressive, hard-drinking artist called Erik Sheppard. His co-stars included Carol Cleveland and, as his wife, Wanda Ventham, seen in "The Gravediggers" and a frequent blonde 'swinging chick' in