Barmaid - The Loring Mystery (1964)

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First time I saw this clip (not this video, but a different site a month or so ago) my heart slightly skipped a beat because it looked just like one of Troughton's Doctor who episodes that was wiped in the 70s. Turns out the costumes are very similar, but that's about it. Troughton was a truly great, chameleonic character actor. Much like Jeremy Brett, I feel the world became a slightly darker place when he left it.

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Goodness, yes both died too young. Jeremy Brett had been ill for a number of years (unbeknown to the public), but Troughton's was such a shock. Just a couple of months after his appearance in the 1st ever episode of Inspector Morse and a few days after an TV interview he was dead from a heart attack. By all accounts in real life he sounded quite a fun, jovial person, which makes it even sadder.

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​@@screenclips9105 Directors liked him, and that's always a good sign. There's a certain warmth that even the world's greatest actor can't totally fabricate, and Troughton had that. He died many years before I was born but no-one seemed to have a bad word to say about him-apart from his daughter of course!