Michael Wisher - Doctor Who Roles

Doctor Who Roles

Wisher's contributions to Doctor Who began with uncredited voice work in the Second Doctor serial The Seeds of Death (1969).

The director of that story, Michael Ferguson, later asked Wisher to play a reporter in the Third Doctor serial The Ambassadors of Death (1970). The following season, he appeared in the Robert Holmes classic Terror of the Autons (1971), playing Rex Farrell. During the later years of the Pertwee era, Wisher provided Dalek voices in stories including Frontier in Space (1973), Planet of the Daleks (1973) and Death to the Daleks (1974) and acted as the villainous Commissioner Kalik in Carnival of Monsters (1973).

He continued to be associated with the series through the early Fourth Doctor years in which he voiced unseen characters in both Revenge of the Cybermen (1975) and Planet of Evil (1975); he also acted on-screen in both serials, as Magrik in Revenge of the Cybermen and Morelli in Planet of Evil.

Wisher was the first actor to portray Davros, the creator of the Daleks, who spoke with an electronically aided voice. Although the character would be revived in further series, commitments to long-running theatre work prevented him from repeating his role when asked to appear in later stories. He reprised the role in 1993 for The Trial of Davros, however, an amateur theatrical production staged for charity which he also co-wrote.