| rdfs:comment | - Ainley was the fourth actor to play the Master and the first to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. He first appears in the 1981 story The Keeper of Traken and returned almost every season up until the cancellation of the original series in 1989, including the final story Survival. He returned for the 1997 BBC computer game Destiny of the Doctors, and later for the Twelfth Doctor story Robot of Sherwood, looking remarkably good for someone who had been dead for 13 years.
- He was born in London, England on 20 August 1932, son of Henry Ainley, a West-End actor, and brother of Richard Ainley. In 1942 he made his first appearance (uncredited) in the war propaganda film The Foreman Went to France. His first major break was in the 1965 TV show It's Dark Outside, in which he played Detective Sergeant Hunter. He also appeared in Naked Evil (1966), had an uncredited role in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), and played Clive Hawksworth in the ITC action/adventure series Spyder's Web (1972). He was the uncle of John Ainley.
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| abstract | - He was born in London, England on 20 August 1932, son of Henry Ainley, a West-End actor, and brother of Richard Ainley. In 1942 he made his first appearance (uncredited) in the war propaganda film The Foreman Went to France. His first major break was in the 1965 TV show It's Dark Outside, in which he played Detective Sergeant Hunter. He also appeared in Naked Evil (1966), had an uncredited role in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), and played Clive Hawksworth in the ITC action/adventure series Spyder's Web (1972). Ainley played Reverend Emilius in the 26-part classic serial The Pallisers (1974). Its production manager, John Nathan-Turner, would eventually be in charge of Doctor Who. Ainley's performance on the serial was so memorable that Nathan-Turner offered him the role of the Master without an audition. Although Ainley was invited to reprise the role of the Master for Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio stories, beginning with Dust Breeding in June 2001, Big Finish were unable to reach a suitable deal with him, and so the part went instead to Geoffrey Beevers. A keen cricketer and a member of the London Theatres Cricket Club, Ainley played the sport frequently from his retirement in the 1990s up to his death on 3 May 2004. The cause of his death wasn't released to the general public. In Castrovalva he was credited by the pseudonym Neil Toynay (an anagram of Tony Ainley) to avoid giving away plot details. This anagram tactic was used on several later occasions — in Time-Flight, he is credited as Leon Ny Taiy; and in The King's Demons as James Stoker (an anagram for "Master's Joke"). He was the uncle of John Ainley.
- Ainley was the fourth actor to play the Master and the first to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. He first appears in the 1981 story The Keeper of Traken and returned almost every season up until the cancellation of the original series in 1989, including the final story Survival. He returned for the 1997 BBC computer game Destiny of the Doctors, and later for the Twelfth Doctor story Robot of Sherwood, looking remarkably good for someone who had been dead for 13 years.
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