Raymond Stanley Lonnen (18 May 1940 â€" 11 July 2014) was an English
stage and television actor. His most prominent roles include Willie
Caine in the ITV cult classic Cold War-era spy drama series, The
Sandbaggers (1978â€"80), and also as Harry Brown in the television
miniseries Harry's Game (1982).Lonnen was born in Bournemouth,
Hampshire, where he attended the Stourfield School and the Hampshire
School of Acting. At 19 he gained his first professional acting job at
a theatre in Belfast. He then appeared in repertory theatre in English
towns and cities including York and made his first television
appearance alongside John Alderton in Emergency â€" Ward 10.His early
acting appearances include TV series such as Mrs Thursday (1966), The
Power Game (1966) and Market in Honey Lane (1967), and a small role in
the film Zeppelin (1971). He then had a semi-regular role in the
British crime drama series Z-Cars as Detective Sergeant Terry Moffatt
from 1972 to 1975, before becoming a regular when Moffatt was promoted
to become the new D.I. for the series from 1976 to 1977. Lonnen
appeared as Gardiner in "Frontier in Space", a 1973 episode of the BBC
cult TV sci-fi series Doctor Who, and as Knaggs, a wanted
bankrobber/gangster in a 1975 episode of Public Eye.
stage and television actor. His most prominent roles include Willie
Caine in the ITV cult classic Cold War-era spy drama series, The
Sandbaggers (1978â€"80), and also as Harry Brown in the television
miniseries Harry's Game (1982).Lonnen was born in Bournemouth,
Hampshire, where he attended the Stourfield School and the Hampshire
School of Acting. At 19 he gained his first professional acting job at
a theatre in Belfast. He then appeared in repertory theatre in English
towns and cities including York and made his first television
appearance alongside John Alderton in Emergency â€" Ward 10.His early
acting appearances include TV series such as Mrs Thursday (1966), The
Power Game (1966) and Market in Honey Lane (1967), and a small role in
the film Zeppelin (1971). He then had a semi-regular role in the
British crime drama series Z-Cars as Detective Sergeant Terry Moffatt
from 1972 to 1975, before becoming a regular when Moffatt was promoted
to become the new D.I. for the series from 1976 to 1977. Lonnen
appeared as Gardiner in "Frontier in Space", a 1973 episode of the BBC
cult TV sci-fi series Doctor Who, and as Knaggs, a wanted
bankrobber/gangster in a 1975 episode of Public Eye.
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