Gerald Flood was a British

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 actor

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 of stage

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 and television

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.

Born in Portsmouth

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, Hampshire

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 but lived for most of his life in Farnham

Farnham

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, Surrey

Surrey

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, where he regularly appeared on stage at the Castle Theatre. He first came to national prominence whist starring alongside Patrick Allen

Patrick Allen

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 and Sam Kydd

Sam Kydd

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 in the Morocco-based police series, Crane

Crane (TV series)

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, which ran from 1963 to 1965 on ITV

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. In this he played the character Colonel Sharif Mahmoud. Flood also appeared in a number of television and film roles over the years. These included the ITC

ITC Entertainment

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 series The Champions

The Champions

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and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall & Hopkirk is a British television series, produced by Working Title Films for BBC One. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk and stars Vic Reeves as Hopkirk and Bob Mortimer as Randall, Emilia Fox as Jeannie, and Tom Baker as Wyvern.- Background :Two series...

, The Rat Catchers

The Rat Catchers

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, the BBC

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 science fiction

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 series

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 Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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as the voice of the robot companion

Companion (Doctor Who)

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 Kamelion

Kamelion

Kamelion is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A shape-changing android voiced by Gerald Flood in its default form, it is a companion of the Fifth Doctor and appears in the television series in two serials between 1983 and...

 in two serials — The King's Demons

The King's Demons

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and Planet of Fire

Planet of Fire

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as well as a brief scene in the regeneration between Peter Davison

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...

's to Colin Baker

Colin Baker

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's Doctor. He portrayed Sir Richard Flashman in the BBC's popular 1971 television serial Tom Brown's Schooldays and was also in Bachelor Father. His film credits included Smokescreen

Smokescreen (film)

Smokescreen is a 1964 British crime thriller, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly, and starring Peter Vaughan.-Cast:* Peter Vaughan as Roper* John Carson as Trevor Bayliss* Yvonne Romain as Janet Dexter* Gerald Flood as Graham Turner...

(1964), Patton

Patton (film)

Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...

(1970), and Frightmare

Frightmare (film)

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(1974).

Gerald Flood died from a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 aged 61. Toby Flood

Toby Flood

Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven "Toby" Flood is an English rugby union player. He currently plays at fly half or inside centre for Leicester Tigers, having signed from Newcastle Falcons, and England.-Background:...

, the English international rugby union

Rugby union

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 player, is Flood's grandson.

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