Freddie Eldrett was a British Actor and Director who started his career at the Windmill Theatre

Windmill Theatre

The Windmill Theatre, later The Windmill International, was a variety and revue theatre in Great Windmill Street, London. The theatre was famous for its nude tableaux vivants...

 in London, where at just 18 years old he was one of the youngest entertainers to perform there.

He was one of the acts to appear on Opportunity Knocks where his dancing ability helped him to win for 21 weeks in a row.

In 1962 he starred as Willy Aldrich in Reach for Glory

Reach for Glory

Reach for Glory is a 1962 British film adaptation of John Rae's 1961 novel, The Custard Boys, directed by Philip Leacock. It received a United Nations Award.- Plot :...

, directed by Philip Leacock

Philip Leacock

Philip David Charles Leacock was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock.-Career:...

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In 1966 he played a soldier in an episode of Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

called The Tenth Planet

The Tenth Planet

The Tenth Planet is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 October to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell's last regular appearance as the First Doctor, and the first story to feature the Cybermen...

alongside William Hartnell

William Hartnell

William Henry Hartnell was an English actor. During 1963-66, he was the first actor to play the Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...

 as the Doctor. The Director was Derek Martinus

Derek Martinus

Derek Martinus was a Director working in British Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He directed a number of Doctor Who stories including Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Tenth Planet, The Evil of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors and Spearhead from Space.-External links:...

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Eldrett appeared in many films including The French Mistress with Sophia Lauren, Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Tom Sawyer Abroad , and Tom Sawyer, Detective .Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom...

 with Dorothy Brookings, The Verdict is Yours with Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger .-Early life:...

 and I Could Go On Singing

I Could Go On Singing

I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 film starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde.Although not a huge box office success on release, it won Garland much praise for her performance...

 with Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...

 and Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

. However, he was mainly a theatre actor appearing in such plays as 110 in the Shade

110 in the Shade

110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt.Based on Nash's 1954 play The Rainmaker, it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the American southwest, and her relationships with local sheriff File, a cautious...

 and Divorce me Darling at the Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...

 where he met his long term companion Philip Gilbert

Philip Gilbert

Philip Gilbert was a Canadian actor.He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and educated at Vancouver College...

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Later in his career Eldrett founded the Prince Regent Theatre in Farnborough, directing many productions before his death in November 2003.